Broadband and Mobile Phones Have Become a Gateway to Constant Music
Who would have believed, even through most of the last century, that the same device we use to contact friends or business associates could also be used to provide us with our favorite music. Yet, most new cell phones can do just that, especially the mobile phones carried by younger people.
And, of course, in the major portion of the 20th century, nobody would have envisioned the Internet. Even into the 1990s, our current Internet speeds with broadband connections would have seemed like a distant dream. Wrong! Ten years later the majority of us are connect to broadband services. Streaming music to our desktops is no longer interrupted by frequent pauses to resupply the buffer of our memory.
The Napster people had something of a rocky start as the location where music enthusiasts could find each other and, using Napster’s amazing technology, exchange their music collections over the Internet. No money ever changed hands. It was a bit like selling illegal bootleg compact discs except that nobody made any income from it. In fact it was the free part of the model that bothered the recording artists and record labels. Eventually Napster settled with the recording industry, with a huge financial settlement. They learned their lesson well enough to completely change their business model.
Napster.com, started as a free trading music set, but it has now become the owner of the largest music catalog on the Internet, with over seven million titles. It is still a terrific bargain, even though it is no longer free in the days when it was in hot water with the music industry. They offer various plans, but the best all around deal is a three month membership, which can be renewed if you still haven’t satisfied your music thirst. I suspect you’ll renew, but the three months will give you a good taste of the service.
For a remarkably low price, you receive five download credits and special bonus download credits as a subscription bonus. You also get unlimited streaming audio, which, believe me is great! You can listen to the entire catalogs of your favorite artists or, if you prefer, entire albums of a variety of artists. There are also over a thousand interactive, genre playlists. They even have a streaming radio station.
The downloads you choose can be played on any MP3 compatible device, including a number of lesser know brands plus the extremely popular Ipod and Zune players. In fact, if you cell phone has this option, you can even carry the music you’ve downloaded from Napster on that, as well.
You have unrestricted rights to these recordings, so you can move them around to different devices that you own. You can even use your software to create your own CD.
There is a huge list of musical genres. If you are similar to me, you choose from a lot of different genres, but if your tastes are more specific, you will certainly find your favorite genre. The list is huge, but a few of the genres are jazz, pop, rock, Christian, children, comedy, country and the list goes on….
You can surround yourself with your own selected music and never repeat a song for three months for only fifteen dollars at Napster.com. Where can you find that much pleasure at that price?
