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Wednesday, 27 April 2005 |
RealNetworks Joins the Subscription Music Fray
Top Tech News, CA
With the announcement, Real Networks will begin head-to-head competition with
established music download services such as Napster. "Before long, anybody who's
not Apple is going to roll out a subscription service," Yankee Group's Mike
Goodman said.
Amid much fanfare, Real Networks is expected to announce Tuesday its own take on
a subscription-based music-download service based on the tethered downloads made
possible by Microsoft's Latest News about Microsoft digital rights management
software.
With the announcement, Real Networks will begin head-to-head competition with
established music download services such as Napster Latest News about Napster.
"Before long, anybody who's not Apple Latest News about Apple is going to roll
out a subscription service," Yankee Group's Mike Goodman said.
Rhapsody on Steroids
The subscription download feature will be added to Real's existing Rhapsody
streaming music service.
For US$14.95 per month, customers will be able to download songs they wish to
transfer to compatible MP3 Latest News about MP3 music players. Those songs will
remain available to customers for as long as they maintain their subscriptions.
The Rhapsody library currently comprises just fewer than one million songs.
That, Goodman said, is one of the big advantages of such services -- giving
music fans access to a larger library.
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