Rhapsody To GO
[103 byte] By [brinks13081] at [2007-11-10 14:32:55] 
Anyone know if this service is Ipod compatible? If so, I would like to hear any opinions on it. Thanks.
# 1 Re: Rhapsody To GO
QUICK ANSWER: yesThe following is taken from a PC magazine review of the service/ software:
As before, you can purchase songs outright (99 cents each) and then load them on a player or burn them to an audio CD. Individually purchased tracks are encoded as 192Kbps AAC files. But via its Harmony digital rights management (DRM) technology, the service also supports most other MP3 players, including the Apple iPod. When Rhapsody initially rolled out Harmony, a public spat erupted between Apple and Real, with Apple threatening to make future versions of its FairPlay DRM technology incompatible with Rhapsody's Harmony technology.
bbqhog at 2007-11-15 17:28:28 >
# 2 Re: Rhapsody To GO
Isn't Rhapsody to go just like Napster to go, where you pay a certain monthly fee and it allows you to transfer as many songs as you want to your player?brinks13081 at 2007-11-15 17:29:25 >
# 3 Re: Rhapsody To GO
That's great. Ever since I heard of Napster to Go I wanted to try a "to go" service. I just hope my iPod (origional mini) will be able to use Rhapsody to go.Remixed at 2007-11-15 17:30:34 >
# 4 Re: Rhapsody To GO
I thought about doing this myself, but then I thought about it...you pay say 9.95 a month to have this music on your player...if you don't keep up the subscription then you don't have the music anymore. So, you might go 5 months then decide not to do it again..so you more or less out $50. I think I will stick with just using Itunes or Rhapsody to download songs from and be able to keep them forever.Razor70 at 2007-11-15 17:31:29 >
# 5 Re: Rhapsody To GO
Aren't they stored on your ipod after load them, therefore put automatically on itunes after you sync it?brinks13081 at 2007-11-15 17:32:28 >
# 6 Re: Rhapsody To GO
Rhapsody can be used to put downloaded/purchased songs onto the iPod (I've done this, it works), but everything I've read indicates that it can't be used with the subscription service. Look at the devices on this URL (http://music.guide.real.com/rhapsodydevices?rnd=1116436963308&has-player=true&flash-version=7.0&version=6.0.12.1040). The iPod is listed as "download". The devices you can use with the subscription service are listed as "subscription".
There is more discussion about this in this mp3.com article (http://www.mp3.com/Rhapsody%20To%20Go-compatible%20MP3%20Players/stories/1329.html).
bdb at 2007-11-15 17:33:38 >
# 7 Re: Rhapsody To GO
First of all, so everyone knows, there is NO, I repeat NO "to go" service (monthly) that is compatible with the ipod. You can download songs via their pay per song service and put those on your ipod, but ipods are not compatible with the encoding done with respect to their monthly fee songs. With that said:Originally posted by brinks13081
Aren't they stored on your ipod after load them, therefore put automatically on itunes after you sync it?
If a monthly service were compatible with the ipod, there is no current way to hack the service to allow you to keep the songs on your ipod/mp3 player after you have stopped paying. They are encoded so that after the month is up, if you haven't paid for the next month, the songs will simply stop working and won't play. You can't burn them to a CD because the monthly service providers realized that if you could, you could simply use that CD to put the songs back onto your computer as if you owned them because CD's don't have a built in software program, and so that information wouldn't be transferred.
I agree that if you had the monthly service for, say, a year and then decided to stop, it would be like throwing $100 away. Any songs you had accumulated during that time would be worthless. You might as well buy 100 songs that you really enjoy.
moe_4eva at 2007-11-15 17:34:30 >
# 8 Re: Rhapsody To GO
Originally posted by moe_4eva I agree that if you had the monthly service for, say, a year and then decided to stop, it would be like throwing $100 away. Any songs you had accumulated during that time would be worthless. You might as well buy 100 songs that you really enjoy. The people that advocate monthly services see it as technology evolution. They believe that purchasing music is also throwing away money in some cases. Those of us who have been purchasing music for a long time have hundreds of dollars of music on vinyl records - sure, we own it, but its like we threw that money away. Some people spent considerable dollars on 8-tracks and cassettes - also thrown away.
I also have hundreds of dollars of DVDs. When hi-definition discs become available will I still want it? I don't know.
They see iTMS in the same light. 128kbps DRMed AAC may be adequate for now, but in a few years we may see its quality as something along the lines of yet another 8-track. So we end up re-buying music yet again, in another format.
I tend to agree, but I don't think that renting music is the solution. I think it just points out that CDs are a better investment, and that we need to push online music stores to offer higher bitrates (and refuse to buy low-bitrate music like iTMS).
bdb at 2007-11-15 17:35:33 >
# 9 Re: Rhapsody To GO
Moe, I think your two points are wrong. I searched online and it said rasphody to go was compatible with the ipod. Also, there are ways to get around the DRM thing with to go services. But they are really unethical :(.Edit: I take point one back. You can't.
hacp at 2007-11-15 17:36:32 >
# 10 Re: Rhapsody To GO
Originally posted by hacp Moe, I think your two points are wrong. I searched online and it said rasphody to go was compatible with the ipod. Also, there are ways to get around the DRM thing with to go services. But they are really unethical :(.
Edit: I take point one back. You can't.
Well, yes, there are other ways around it, but I didn't mention those because if you are going to take the time to hack the system, you might as well just use a program like limewire. It would actually be more illegal to hack into a system versus downloading copyrighted materials. Why would you do that, especially if you can download them in better quality off of the P2P programs?
moe_4eva at 2007-11-15 17:37:33 >
# 11 Re: Rhapsody To GO
Rhapsody To GO is not currently compatible with Ipod. That came from a rep from Rhapsody after after I e-mail in with the question the other day.brinks13081 at 2007-11-15 17:38:43 >
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