I'm hoping that someone will see this and respond to me. I would like to know something about Rhapsody from Real.com that they aren't telling me. When you pay the $14.95 per month do you have to pay to download mp3's? I see that they charge .99 cents per song or $8.99 for the album. When you pay their monthly fee do you still have to pay that or is it half or free? The reason I'm asking is because it says in the description under the $14.99 plan "buy albums". It doesn't say buy full price, half price or get for free. The commercials say that you get all the music you want for the price of 1 cd per month. So if that is true then the albums should be free. Or is that false advertising.
Before I spend a dime I'd like to know. If it costs $15 a month plus I have to pay .99 cents a song I think I'm entitled to know this before I give them my credit card information because I can just use iTunes and buy the full album without paying a monthly fee. If someone can please respond to this I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
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Hi- Lacy from RealNetworks here. I thought I'd answer your questions about Rhapsody. When you pay the $14.99 for the To Go service, you are able to download an unlimited number of songs to your PC and to certain portable music players. These are not DRM free songs, so you can not burn them to CD. If you want DRM free music then you don't need to pay the To Go price and you can simply go to http://mp3.Rhapsody.com and purchase DRM-free music that can be played on any MP3 player as well as burned to CDs. So, with the subscription service you have access to the entire Rhapsody library for use on up to 3 computers and 3 portable devices. The MP3 store allows you to purchase songs on an individual basis. I hope this helps. Feel free to email me if you have any other questions.
Wow very nice. I got a response from someone who actually works for Real.com.
I guess this answers my question. What I am looking for is music that I can put on my mp3 player which is now a paper weight because the wire snapped for the battery. Otherwise I'd like to be able to burn it onto a CD, I guess when you burn to a CD you can rip it as much as you want and it will be DRM free. I think.
Correct. Burning to CD and re-ripping to CD removes the DRM...as well as little bit of sound quality. But most people can't even tell.
I've actually had issues with quality. I bought music online, burned to cd then when I got my Dell DJ for Christmas 2005 I had to rip the cd's and found they were too loud or there was silence. It was only with a few cd's where that happened and so I had to skip putting those on my mp3 player and stopped burning to cd's period.
Thanks Lacy from Real.com. That's so cool that not only did someone actually read my blog but they were a employee of the company I was asking a question about without having to go through the Real.com boards lol. Very cool.
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