Free Rhapsody Alternatives
January 13, 2009 – 10:52 am
For streaming music on demand, Rhapsody reigned supreme for a long time. That time, I believe, is now over. For one thing, Rhapsody has no downloadable client for Mac. You must stream from their site. But the biggest letdown is the cash money it costs. Sure, it is a richer experience with artist bios and reviews and navigating from tune to tune, but why pay when you don’t have to.
Enter:
I haven’t done extensive testing on any of the newer services, but the more established Last.fm and Pandora while not exactly set up like Rhapsody still offer free tunes.
Last.fm is geared more toward a social experience with the ability to play some music.
Pandora takes a different approach — more like a radio. Choose an artist, song, album or genre and a custom station is created related to this choice.
It looks as if seeqpod and songza may scrape for music that already resides on various websites. Just Hear It, GrooveShark and Lala implement a more polished interface for searching and playback.
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