There’s a lot of time (I hope) between the recent announcement about the planned end to Yahoo! Music Unlimited and the date when its users will have to make the move to Rhapsody. This will enable the migration team time to make this transition as quick and painless as the migration from Yahoo! Photos to flickr (or whatever service you chose).
I decided to fire up the Rhapsody service today to see what we YMU users are in store for. I still had an account with them from years ago when I evaluated their platform and decided on Yahoo’s instead. Doing so brought back the memory of signing up for a trial period with no way to cancel before the end of the trial. I really felt snookered and abused after spending a lot of time waiting to get a human on the phone to affect cancelling my Rhapsody trial. Ah but then only to have to then deflect their salesperson’s refusal to do it until we discussed to his satisfaction (ala AOL) why I didn’t want to continue. So yeah, I’m not necessarily excited at the prospect of going back.
I went to Rhapsody’s site and downloaded their player. It installed painlessly without any excess baggage (that I’ve noticed so far). It’s running fine on my Vista system (much like most everything else contrary to I’m hearing in the blogosphere). I had it scan my music folder for my music files (subscription content included) and it had no problems. Playback sounds great and there is a several band equalizer with good presets to fine tune the quality to the music/speakers. I plugged in my MP3 (read not ipod) player and it was immediately recognized and usable.
So the Rhapsody player is a winner. It seems to have it all. What didn’t happen was the pickup of playlists created using YMU. But there’s time for that to be dealt with - I hope.
Maybe I’ll update this post as new discoveries and announcements are made.
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