# Can I play my older rhapsody music on Windows Media Player **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 2, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-play-my-older-rhapsody-music-on-windows-media-player/538031 "2010-05-02T15:24:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Carptracker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@Carptracker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carptracker)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-play-my-older-rhapsody-music-on-windows-media-player/538031/1 "2010-05-02T15:24:04Z")
A long time ago I was getting lots of free music from Rhapsody through a promotion. The music files have the extension “.rax”. I used Rhapsody as my primary music utility because of this. Now I don’t get free music from Rhapsody any more so I quit them, but I can’t play my older music anymore without booting rhapsody. I can use Rhapsody to load these on my Samsung adio player, but I would like to migrate away from Rhapsody altogether, because otherwise the program does not work very well. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-play-my-older-rhapsody-music-on-windows-media-player/538031/2 "2010-05-02T19:38:19Z")
I can play my Rhapsody tracks with Windows Media Player, but my situation is a bit different: 1. I still use Rhapsody as a subscription service, so my licenses are current. 2. The tracks have a .wma extension. Are your tracks purchased tracks or subscription tracks? If they are DRM free, you should be able to convert then some way. ---
**Author:** ![Carptracker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@Carptracker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carptracker)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-play-my-older-rhapsody-music-on-windows-media-player/538031/3 "2010-05-03T02:25:40Z")
Only my older rhapsody tracks have the .rax extension. They are purchased tracks, not subscription tracks. They migrated away from the .rax thing after a while, I think. I think I have only one “subscription” song. I did that once by accident. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-play-my-older-rhapsody-music-on-windows-media-player/538031/4 "2010-05-03T03:09:23Z")
I was going to suggest that you go to the Real message boards, but I see now that they are no longer active (and that does not make me happy, there were some helpful folks there). I’m going to poke around a bit more to see if I can find anything.