Rhapsody has launched a DRM-free MP3 store. This is a big improvement. Previously, their MP3s were locked in a ghetto in the Windows desktop software. Prices seem to be $1 per album higher than Amazon, even for Rhapsody subscribers.
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Album of the Week
The album of last week was Flight of the Conchords.
Album of the Week
The album of the week is The Breeders’ Mountain Battles.
Album of the Week
The album of the week is Gnarls Barkley’s The Odd Couple.
Album of the Week
The album of last week was Stephen Malkmus’s Real Emotional Trash.
Album of the Week
The album of the week is Goldfrapp’s Seventh Tree.
Yahoo! Music Unlimited No More
Yahoo! is planning to shut down its Yahoo! Music Unlimited service and redirect it’s users to Rhapsody. It’s sad to see less competition in the streaming music space, I think competition from Yahoo! drove some of the recent improvements to Rhapsody’s player software.
Album of the Week
Vampire Weekend is very nice but the Mars Volta are blowing my mind with The Bedlam in Goliath.
Album of the Week
The album of last week was the Magnetic Fields’ Distortion.
Rhapsody 2007
It’s time once again for my year-end playlist in convenient CD length. My favorite part about all of the year-end lists is that I always find a bunch of great music that I had missed or didn’t take to the first time around, so I made a big list of that stuff, too.