Word: napstering
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...Napster, the original MP3 gangster, is back on a server near you, this time as a legal pay-per-download and subscription music service for Windows PCs. The official relaunch is Oct. 29, but a TIME test run shows that Napster 2.0 has got the rock to draw a crowd. The service will launch into stiff competition; this week Apple is expected to debut a Windows version of its highly successful (and until now Mac-only) iTunes Music Store...
With 99¢ song downloads, complete albums for $9.95 and no subscription required, Napster's pricing follows the iTunes model. Also Apple-like is Napster's integration with a portable audio player, Samsung's YP-910, a $399 jukebox that shares iPod's simplicity of use. This player is slightly larger, though unlike iPod it has a built-in MP3 recording function and an FM transmitter for wireless connection to radios...
...Napster has expanded on the iTunes design. For a $9.95 monthly membership fee, you can preview whole songs instead of just snippets, and compile endless playlists of songs without paying for individual tracks. (You will be charged if you want to burn songs onto a CD or move them to the YP-910.) Also for members: Napster's 40 interactive Net radio channels, which let you skip or repeat songs and even save memorable radio playlists for later...
...music section. "Our consumer is the middle 80% of the population," says Gerry Lopez, president of Handleman Entertainment Resources, which stocks and manages music offerings at such stores as Wal-Mart. "These are moms and dads making $26,000 to $36,000 a year...We're not catering to Napster or Kazaa folks, just people who like a nice song sung by a nice...
...April. But competition from illegal downloading services has put the legit pioneers through a lot of corporate turmoil. Listen.com was bought this summer by RealNetworks; Pressplay, the service begun by record labels Universal and Sony, is now owned by softwaremaker Roxio, which also bought the rights to the defunct Napster brand; MusicNet, begun by the three other big labels, is now offered by America Online (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner). Yet the growing business potential brings ever more newcomers. At least 10 new services plan to go live in coming months. Roxio expects to launch...