Posted 10/20/08 at 03:16:24 PM by Andy Salisbury

Today the New York Post revealed that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may be looking to follow MySpace’s lead by offering a digital music store. Not through licensing their own content, mind you, but working through a third party that already has the nasty licensing business worked out.

MySpace’s music service currently works as a proprietary service built from the ground up using source licensing, with all their content hosted directly from MySpace. Whereas Facebook is reportedly looking to work with Rhapsody, iLike, Lala and IMEEM as content providers and licensers.

Supposedly, listening to the music itself will be free, and sold through Amazon. Listening to songs on Facebook would prompt on-screen advertising.

“Facebook is a serious challenger to MySpace,” said Phil Leigh, of Inside Digital Media, “and they would certainly want to do anything that record labels would allow them to do with advertising-supported music.”

So what say you, social networking site user? Would you use a Facebook powered music store? Let us know in the comments.

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Posted 06/30/08 at 08:52:29 PM by Pulkit Chandna

Here is a bit of news that might have music lovers rhapsodic. RealNetworks-owned online music service Rhapsody has MP3 music sans any Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection. This entails that users can do anything with the music they buy. If you thought that piracy fearing labels would never back such an initiative then you were wrong.

Major labels will continue to make their music available through Rhapsody. They perceive DRM protection to be some sort of a sales impediment as it deters many music lovers from buying such music online – scarecrow effect. Rhapsody’s online music store offers a single song download for $.99 and an entire album for $9.99. Rhapsody has certainly taken the attack to iTunes.

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drm, Software, apple, itunes, iPod, Rhapsody, online music store, realnetworks

Posted 05/30/07 at 10:37:56 AM by Michael Brown

Our listening challenge reveals that songs encoded at 256Kb/s are only slighty better than 128Kb/s tracks.

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drm, apple, news, mp3, iPod, MP3 Player, Rhapsody, digital music, Yahoo, EMI

Posted 05/04/07 at 05:28:28 PM by Michael Brown

We liked almost everything about SanDisk’s Sansa e260 flash-memory digital media player when we reviewed it in November 2006, but we slapped it with a verdict of 5 because we activated its voice recorder every time we picked the damned thing up. The Sansa e280R fixes that problem and adds two more gigs of memory for good measure.

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maximum pc, Rhapsody, Sandisk, hardware, sansa, e280r, Media players, reviews

Posted 09/19/06 at 01:03:17 AM by Michael Brown

ALERT: Your days of having to stream music through your PC are over! Sonos now delivers the ability to stream straight from Rhapsody!

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music, Sonos Digital Music System, ZP-80, Bundle, Rhapsody