Napster's Subscription Service

Just what I've been waiting for. Napster offers a download subscription service, so you can grab all the music you want for 10 bucks a month instead of $1 per song, like on iTunes. It costs 5 extra dollars per month to be able to copy the songs to other places, like an MP3 player.

Peter Rojas breaks it down like this:

"Have a 40GB MP3 player that can hold 10,000 songs? It’d cost $10,000 to fill it with music from the various online music stores (not that anyone would actually do that), but for $180 a year you can fill it—and refill it—with as much music as you want (and you’d basically be paying $0.0015 per song per month)"

I spend twice that much on cd's every year, with only 600 songs to show for it (and only a third of them being any good). With unlimited service I can get just the songs I want, and experiment with artists I haven't listened to yet! I can't wait for the service to go live next year.

Related: Napster is also offering ringtone downloads. Watch out iTunes.

Comments

[Ahsmi]

So the record industry doesn't want you downloading music, but they're willing to give away so much of it at such a low price? Something smells fishy here...I would expect that price to go up after the first year or so. I wouldn't mess with it anyway, because of that ridiculous DRM scheme. The files won't work on an Ipod? Come on, realistically who owns a Rio? There is no way I'm paying for music that I can't do what I want with, and I know I'm not alone. DRM sucks and will always be hacked within days or months of it's release so the industry better come up with a fair, simple way to sell digital music quick...or else.

[Grant Story]

I saw a Napster TV spot yesterday and they have a limited time 30 day free trial at napster.com/tv.

[Amit]

Beware...the rest of the engadget article describes how the DRM may actually prevent you from listening to any of the songs you have purchased if you ever decide to cancel the service. sketch.

[MICHELLE]

I WOULD LIKE TO JOIN TO NAPSTER.COM/TV
BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW
PLEASE HELP ME THANK YOU

[KWEANNA LUNFORD]

NAPSTER IS VERY INTRESTING AND I WOULD LIKE TO BE PART OF THE MUSIC WORLD. PLUS I DONT HAVE ALOT OF MONEY OR ACCESS TO BE A MUSIC COLLECTOR. THATS MY HOBBIE ON CLASSICS MUSIC and the future music.

[angela branch]

I have seen it on tv and would dearly love to try it.