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Saturday, 07 May 2005 |
Online music subscription services battle it out with iTunes
News 8 Austin, TX
How you choose to buy your music is really a matter of taste, whether it's a la
carte or by subscription. A la carte, a la Apple's iTunes, you pay for
individual songs or albums and then you own them forever.
Subscription services, like the new Napster, allow you to pay one fee and get
any song at all, as many as you want, but you only have access to those songs as
long as you keep paying your subscription fee.
"I think a la carte is great for people that are commitment phobic. You can
always just buy what you want, there's no strings attached, you like a song you
go and you buy it," Jonathan Schwartz of Relix Magazine said. "That being said
I'm always a value conscious buyer and for 15 bucks you could really rent the
entire music store."
Real Networks, which this week unveiled a revamped version of its Rhapsody
online music service, is playing both sides and offering yet another enticing
option: free music.
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