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Napster is now free... kinda
The big news of the day regarding your local digital music purveyor is that Napster has announced that it is now free. Sort of. After you register for an account you can listen to any of their 2 million tracks (in their entirety) five times, the sixth time you are prompted to either buy the track or subscribe to Napster.
I think this is a brilliant move on Napster's part, though I doubt it will really help them that much. However, I do hope that this forces the iTunes Music Store to do something similar (those 30 second clips just don't cut it).
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
drcomp said 8:16PM on 5-01-2006
First post! Erm... Napster :)
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MrGuy said 8:26PM on 5-01-2006
Second Post! Erm... How do you make it play? The player comesup but sticks at 0:00...
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turnerm5 said 8:28PM on 5-01-2006
Yeah, It'd be nice if it worked... the player comes up and stays at 0:00
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Brandon said 8:41PM on 5-01-2006
It works in Firefox on the Mac...but no joy in Camino or Safari. Also note that not *all* songs can be played for free (full length.)
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Arcsbite said 9:23PM on 5-01-2006
US only at the moment.
poo.
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aylwin said 9:23PM on 5-01-2006
Folks, "Napter" is misspelled in the title...
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Jacob Varghese said 8:56AM on 5-02-2006
If Napster is able to handle the additional traffic without a hitch, this could be huge for them - in terms of additional advertising revenue and maybe even purchases.
Think of YouTube - Napster is trying out a piece of their model. The sharing of music links across platforms will definitely drive up traffic to Nap. The only problem is that Nap requires you to register to just listen to the music - unlike YouTube.
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Brett said 12:27PM on 5-02-2006
Three words:
Audio
Hijack
Pro.
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pk said 1:33AM on 5-14-2006
This is just incredible!
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