I’m in the middle of a 30 day free trial, and so far I am not a big fan. There are two things I really don’t like. The search function is pretty crappy – when I search for a title a little drop down box opens and only shows me a few choices, so I end up having to search for the song by the artist, and even then to click on a bunch of their individual albums to find it.
The other thing is sloppy editing. An unfortunately high percentage of their songs seem to have the last few seconds of the song truncated, and some even have a few beginning notes of some other song tacked onto the end. I’ve bought hundreds of songs from iTunes over the years and never once encountered that problem.
Am I just unlucky in my choices for searches and listening, or have others of you run into similar problems?
The search function is awful, but I’m used to wrestling, I mean working, with it.
I’ve never had the problem of songs getting clipped like you described.
I always wonder how many people know about Rhapsody? None of my friends use it. In fact, I don’t know anyone who uses it. How many people know it as mostly an unlimited streaming music service with reasonable prices on downloads?
I’ve been using it since it was something else before it was Yahoo Music. What I love about Rhapsody (Rhapshitty, as I unaffectionately call it) is that for $10 I can stream all the music either on my computer or my Android phone. I love being to listen to music from past decades without having to buy the albums. I use it every day.
I also like that music downloads in .mp3 format and not Apple’s format.
I have a friend who uses Spotify, and we compare notes. There are some things one service has that the other doesn’t. Rarely does Spotify have something Rhapsody doesn’t.
What I want to know is why iTunes never went with a streaming format. They could have put Rhapsody and Spotify out of business in a month.
The clipping at the end seems to be much more common on really old stuff-- from the forties or fifties. I winder whether the recordings themselves are truncated, or some glitch in their streaming system kills the song prematurely while starting the next.
If you want to listen to an example of what I’m talking about, I came across one just an hour ago – “Now Is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song)” by Bing Crosby. The album is “Don’t Fence Me in the Best of Crosby”
I haven’t downloaded the mp3, just listened to it streaming, and it is being cut off consistently.
I have never had the problems you describe, or had troubles with the search function. I’ve been using it for a long time, mostly on my smart phone. I think it’s a wonderful way to listen to virtually anything you want to for twelve bucks a month. It sure beats having to buy all that music individually.
Yikes. Whereas on the album Bing: His Legendary Years 1931-1957, it doesn’t do that.