You know you're a one hit wonder when...I'm in the process of transition from Rhapsody music service to Zune. They cost roughly the same amount of money, but Microsoft let's you keep 10 songs a month with their subscription service. This will also require an upgrade in hardware, but the upcoming ZuneHD will make the change much more pleasant.
Rhapsody... sucks. Its software is buggy, songs that the company loses the licenses to errors out on you when you try and play them (but are kept in the library, to error out every time they are attempted to be played), and syncing with the clix/Rhapsody jointly created music player is an exercise in futility. It has probably only succesfully signed into my account on the first try less than ten times in the nearly two years I've been with them. I've only endured it for so long because there was no reason for me to try and re-get all of my songs with another service. But now with the ability to actually keep some of what I'm paying for? Yes please.
I've been running the Zune software for nearly a month, and the only negative I have to say about it is that I'm sorry I didn't switch to it sooner. It is literally light years ahead of the Rhapsody music experience, and if I had known that I would have made the switch much early (keepable music or not). It has probably the biggest feature Rhapsody was missing: easy song/artist search. I remember when I used to use iTunes (possibly even darker days), and was able to type "m" when I was in the library, and it would scroll to the artists that began with "m". Zune takes it one step further, where you can type more than one letter. "S" will zoom you to the artists begin with S, but now you can go right to Shania Twain with a simple "shan" (an exact command which I use quite a bit, mind you).
Mathmatecailly speaking, it might make sense for me to actually just purchase songs outright for $0.99 or whatever Amazon is charging for them, as I mainly just listen to oldies. But having the ability to sample anything and everything (and the ability to have a complete library for the eventuality of random karaoke nights) just seems like subscription service is the way to go. Now, I can have the best of both worlds.
Rhapsody... sucks. Its software is buggy, songs that the company loses the licenses to errors out on you when you try and play them (but are kept in the library, to error out every time they are attempted to be played), and syncing with the clix/Rhapsody jointly created music player is an exercise in futility. It has probably only succesfully signed into my account on the first try less than ten times in the nearly two years I've been with them. I've only endured it for so long because there was no reason for me to try and re-get all of my songs with another service. But now with the ability to actually keep some of what I'm paying for? Yes please.
I've been running the Zune software for nearly a month, and the only negative I have to say about it is that I'm sorry I didn't switch to it sooner. It is literally light years ahead of the Rhapsody music experience, and if I had known that I would have made the switch much early (keepable music or not). It has probably the biggest feature Rhapsody was missing: easy song/artist search. I remember when I used to use iTunes (possibly even darker days), and was able to type "m" when I was in the library, and it would scroll to the artists that began with "m". Zune takes it one step further, where you can type more than one letter. "S" will zoom you to the artists begin with S, but now you can go right to Shania Twain with a simple "shan" (an exact command which I use quite a bit, mind you).
Mathmatecailly speaking, it might make sense for me to actually just purchase songs outright for $0.99 or whatever Amazon is charging for them, as I mainly just listen to oldies. But having the ability to sample anything and everything (and the ability to have a complete library for the eventuality of random karaoke nights) just seems like subscription service is the way to go. Now, I can have the best of both worlds.
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