Better than iTunes, Better than Amazon, it’s Rhapsody
The experience of moving all of my info from my now old Macbook to my new Macbook Pro was a long and tedious one. Transferring files took more than a day(?) so I decided to do it manually. Moving files manually was pretty easy until I had migrate my iTunes library. After nearly two days of messing around I have come to the conclusion that I will never buy another non-mp3 song from the iTunes store.
The Amazon MP3 music store is a great marketplace for MP3 music, but after looking for specific, obscure, songs I’ve found Amazon doesn’t have many of them. I enjoy Amazon, but compared to the iTunes library it’s pretty lackluster. Looking for Blink-182’s Adam’s song on Amazon left me with the karaoke version, but on Rhapsody, I found in it the matter of seconds.
The Rhapsody MP3 Store is similar to Amazon’s, it offers all of the songs through a website instead of an application like iTunes. As in the name, all of the music in the store is MP3 format, which will work on 99.9% of music devices and applications including the iPod.
Okay, so Rhapsody’s better than iTunes, but why is it better than Amazon? Like I said before, Amazon’s library doesn’t include obsure music like Rhapsody does. Amazon also has the trouble of being more than a music store, unlike Rhapsody which is focused exclusively on music and is much easier to navigate. I find when I use Amazon that my searches can find more than just a song, they’ll find a computer part or a movie with a similar name.
I will still use iTunes and Amazon, but Rhapsody is the first place I will check for music. iTunes DRM-Free is still a work in progress, Amazon doesn’t have everthing I need, all of which Rhapsody has solved. It will be interesting to see in six month’s if I’ve changed my mind or found a better service.
What do you use for music? All of them? None of them? Still a pirate? Leave it in the comments.
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