Listening to the Web

Listen.com’s Rhapsody service has been taking a lot of my time lately. Rhapsody is a broadband music service. Basically, users will be paying about $10/month for access to 300,000 music titles. There’s a 99 cents per song charge when the user wants to burn CD’s.

I was skeptical at first but after listening to some tracks (I got a trial subscription), I was sold. For two hours, I built an 80’s music collection — copying a list from eBay. I found out that though there are still some music companies who are still under negotiations with Listen.com, my playlist is decent enough even if it lacks “vital” songs from Madonna, for example. I even sent the list to Gie for him to go review since he’s also under the trial period of listen.com. It was great to hear Spandau Ballet’s True once again.

Primarily, I wanted to burn legal CD’s from Listen.com. Having access to thousands of tracks however, has made the task challenging. I can’t decide which tracks to burn!

I don’t listen to the radio now. I just turn on Rhapsody whenever I work with the web. I tune in to the Pop Hits or Smooth Jazz stations regulary. Recently, I discovered the Comedy stations and it’s a joy hearing Robin Williams!

My future project would be to create a connection from my computer to the main radio system in the living room.