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The Rhapsody Music Software, was a free program to help organize music collections, and synchronize them in MP3 portable media players (PMP) with the Rhapsody subscription service. It competed with Apple Inc.'s iTunes software. As of September 2013, the latest version of the software is Rhapsody 4.
Napster's assets were eventually acquired by Roxio, and it re-emerged as an online music store commonly known as Napster 2.0. Best Buy later purchased the service and merged it with its Rhapsody streaming service on December 1, 2011. [1] In 2016, the original branding was restored when Rhapsody was renamed Napster.
Roxio purchased Napster and a music streaming service called PressPlay in 2003, [3] to create a new legal online music service that lets users access music through a subscription or on a fee-per-song basis. Napster was later acquired by Best Buy. The service was acquired by rival Rhapsody in 2011.
Some services offer non-free options in the style of a digital music store. For a list of online music stores that provide a means of purchasing and downloading music as files of some sort, see comparison of digital music stores. Many sites from both of these categories offer services similar to an online music database.
In December 2001, Rhapsody was launched by the startup Listen.com, becoming the first service to offer subscription-based streaming access to a library of music online. [16] Initially limited to content from independent labels such as Naxos, it later reached agreements to stream music from the "big five" major labels. [17]
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This deal should be music to everyone's ears. Rhapsody is giving away one MP3 a day for an entire year for a total value of $365! So far Rhapsody has offered tunes from Old Crow Medicine Show and ...
Metallica demanded that their songs be banned from file sharing, and that the users responsible for sharing their music be banned from the service. This led to over 300,000 users being banned from Napster, [ 9 ] although software was released that simply altered the Windows registry and allowed users to rejoin the service under a different name.