Reverse Phone Lookup

Ah, the modern age…  Through most of the last century can you imagine what would have happened to some poor guy who speculated that someday we would use the same instrument to call our business colleagues and play our favorite music.  Of course, almost all new mobile phones can do that and much more.

And, of course, in the major portion of the 20th century, nobody would have envisioned the Internet.  Furthermore, as late as the early part of the last decade of the twentieth century, our current Internet speed would have seemed more of a distant hope than a short term reality.  Yet, today, most of us connect using broadband services.  Streaming music to our desktops is no longer interrupted by frequent pauses to resupply the buffer of our memory.

The Napster company had quite a rocky start as the location where music lovers could find each other and, using Napster’s amazing technology, trade their music collections over the Internet, even before the world wide web had come along.  No money was ever exchanged.  It was a bit like selling bootleg compact discs except that nobody made any income from it.  In fact it was the free part of the model that bothered the recording artists and record labels.  Eventually Napster settled with the recording industry, with a huge financial award at Napster’s expense.  They learned their lesson well enough to completely change their business model.

Napster.com, started as a free trading music set, but it has now become the owner of the largest music catalog on the Internet, with over seven million titles.  While it is not free, as it was in the wild days of the early Internet, it is still an amazing bargain.  They offer various plans, but the best all around deal is a three month membership, which can be renewed if you still haven’t satisfied your music thirst.  I suspect you’ll renew, but the three months will give you a good taste of the service.

For a remarkably low price, you receive five download credits and special bonus download credits as a subscription bonus.  Included in the plan is the reason that most people subscribe in the first place–unlimited (!) streaming music.  You can listen to entire albums or even the entire catalog of their various artists of your favorites.  There are also over a thousand interactive, genre playlists.  There are streaming radio stations, too.

The music that you select to download as part of your subscription can be played on any MP3 device, including a number of lesser know brands plus the extremely popular Ipod and Zune players.  In fact, if you cell phone has this option, you can even carry the music you’ve downloaded from Napster on that, as well.

With your three month membership downloads, you receive unrestricted rights, so you can put your music onto various of your players.  You can even burn a CD for yourself.

There is a huge list of musical genres.  I’m sure you’ll find your favorite on the list, unless you are like me and listen to music from a wide variety of genres.  Among those genres are rock, pop, classical, R&B, musical soundtracks, Christian, jazz, comedy, and the list goes on.

All of this is just $15 for the three months of delightful musical saturation at Napster.com.  Face it, that’s cheaper than a fast food lunch for three.

Tags: broadband, cell phone, high speed internet, Mobile Phone

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