whats so free about this "free" napster?

[Mellman]

www.napster.com/tv free for 30 days? whats free? surely not song downlods...

 

[Kelemvor]

the download... and napster's setup is that the songs stop working once you stop paying their monthly fee. SO you can download as many as you want a listen for 30 days and then everything stops working.

That's my guess.

 

[EyeMWing]

It's a 30-day version of my setup (which is thrown in "free" with my Penn State tuition) - free downloads, free streaming, you still have to pay to put it to CD, and as soon as you kill the account, the files are worthless.

 

[DaveSimmons]

The music playback rental.

Play full CDs on your PC, as many as you want. If you have the right portable, download as many tracks as you want, but they're DRM protected to expire.

I have Napster to try CDs before I buy them from Amazon, and to listen to things I don't like enough to buy real copies of.

It's pretty handy when someone says "Bruce Cockburn is great!" to be able to legally hear all of Breakfast in New Orleans or You've Never Seen Everything, without buying a copy of either.

 

[illusion88]

If you can hear it, you can record it. Just download about a million songs, and then at night have them play (turn off your speakers) and record them to .wav. Reconvert to mp3 and profit!

 

[Xyl3ne]

If you're going to go through all that you might as well just warez it.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: illusion88
If you can hear it, you can record it. Just download about a million songs, and then at night have them play (turn off your speakers) and record them to .wav. Reconvert to mp3 and profit!

Even better. Route the line out to the line in. Record straight to mp3. That gives you 1x recording.

Supposedly there are programs out there that do it much faster than realtime.