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[tom berger] Does anyone know of such a product, or had any experience at all with a subscription-based music service? I've heard of Rhapsody (only available in the US), and I've played quite a bit with LastFM lately - but I wasn't able to convince myself that they are worth my money - what do you think?

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OUPblog: Fat Booty’ intricately wove a love/lust story that name checked Gregory Isaacs and Sade around a well deployed Aretha Franklin sample while on ”˜Rock N Roll’, Mos Def rejected the accepted (white) canon of music: ”˜Elvis Presley ain’t got no soul/Chuck Berry is rock ”˜n’ roll/You may dig the Rolling Stones/But they ain’t come up with that style on their own’ he maintained. (via Cosmos)

lisbetho - MOG: Artist: Sprites, hollAnd Album: Snoopy Come Home Track: It Changes, Snoopy Come Home, Do You Remember Me? Other Tags: The Peanuts, Snoopy, Snoopy Come Home (via Cosmos)

Tech Talk: Following the tread Companies like Dell, Samsung and Creative made the players; companies like Yahoo, Rhapsody, Napster and MTV built the music stores. (via Cosmos)

Rhapsody Radish: Playlists by Subject, Mood, Cover Songs, Etc.: It took me two months to get around to the new Joseph Arthur record Nuclear Daydream. I actually listened to the Twisted Sister Christmas CD in full when I could have been listening to this sparkling piece of pure joy. (via Cosmos)

:: clicky clicky music blog ::: . Not completely surprising, given the popularity of the latter. But the newer material is strong and deserves some exposure in a live setting. -- Jay Kumar (via Cosmos)

Writing (Phil Gyford): Here’s the first, with the second to come later”¦ When I signed up on Twitter my whole body groaned as I realised I had to build another bloody social network. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve had to tell computers who my friends are. (via Cosmos)

VAGUE DREAM: Listening ToUnder The Influence Of Giants - I Love You Played on 21 Nov 2006My Morning Jacket - Gideon Played on 21 Nov 2006The Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide Played on 21 Nov 2006Bonobo - Beachy Head Played on 19 Nov 2006Bonobo - Plug Played on 19 Nov 2006 (via Cosmos)

It was a boojum: (via Cosmos)

Woosk.com: 11 2 Death Cab for Cutie (via Cosmos)

un eternizador de dioses del ocaso: A man who reportedly believed Republicans were conspiring to steal today's election entered an Allentown polling site, signed in and proceeded to smash the screen of one of the electronic voting machines with a metal cat paperweight, poll volunteers said. (via Cosmos)

[Webservices.rhapsody.com] Neat little iTunes apple script for the Mac users :: Rhapsody Web ...: Originally posted on February 07, 2006 at http://rws-blog.rhapsody.com/ .One brilliant feature LastFM offers (though they don't highlight it enough, .

[Rws-blog.rhapsody.com] Rhapsody Web Services: Neat little iTunes apple script for the Mac ...: One brilliant feature LastFM offers (though they don't highlight it enough, IMHO) is the ability to look up an artist and see what songs fans or listeners of that artist are listening to, based on Audioscrobbler data. I've found a ton of new artists and albums hunting that info down.

[Studioues.blogspot.com] Studio UES - Housing the latest in music business and marketing news: ”¦which brings me to the other relevant question, based on the skepticism of some on the panel - To what extent are user-generated editorial reviews important in the context of digital music ecosystems. Do we care how users rate a band, or would we give the band a listen regardless if it was on a relevant playlist, streamed on our internet radio, or recommended to us by last.fm based on listeners with similar taste?

[Bigmusicland.blogspot.com] BigMusicLand = Bigland's music blog: March 2005: Previously I wrote an article about the virtue of a subscription-based music service Note that my excitement about subscription-to-go services is only theoretical as I have subscribed to Rhapsody but not Napster-to-Go for lacking compatible MP3 player. Here is a detailed review of the latter from The New York Times.

[Hifiblog.com] HiFi Blog Crawl Page: Fraunhofer has released version 2 of its MP3 Surround Evaluation software .Keeping your iPod tunes when switching, Rhapsody Radio for Sprint, .