Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Mobile Phone Music With Verizon & Rhapsody
Just a quick DEBRIEF shameless plug (although non-remunerative) for a good combo. Try the Rhapsody service for Verizon family of mobile phones which feature music players (MP3 players). It uses an ingenuous & thoroughly practicable, sale & rental approach to download musical tracks & albums. Music is rented or purchased at Rhapsody.
In combination with Verizon and other Rhapsody exclusively served firms, musical tracks in MP3 (maybe WMA too) are encoded and loaded into your music player. When not buying, they have a license to play programmed into them for the legnth of your membership --one month or a year. As your player is turned on and used for music-playing, its computer program sweeping reviews all tracks and expels or freezes 'tracks' with expired licenses. The tracks you have stored - those which are owned by you - are untroubled. The entire license to play/listen is part of Rhapsody & Verizon (et al)'s approaches to conserving copyright & paying royalties.
Yes you can buy a track for 99 cents, or an album for as little as $9.99. I am able to store on my Verizon cell phone, which has a music player, as many as 200+ tracks (90% of which I just borrowed with the monthly Rhapsody music library system subscription.). (Your kids can have a hay-day).. The number of computers and music players authorised per account is restricted; and most Verizon sold products are 'bluth-tooth' enabled for playing and enjoying at your personal computer.
And the Rhapsody downloading program can be used at most cafe or library computers without a permanent hard drive storage.
Oh yes, DEBRIEF gave up the onec convenient Boostmobiel mobile internet cell-phone, for a Mobile 2.0 pre-pay Verizon appliance with great service & 95%+ mobile sites acecss; and the old "phone company" coverage. (cf. PhoneScoop for a review of the US Starcom Blitz -- which is sold by Verizon as a pre-pay package at their telephone stires & discount stores like Wal-Mart).
In combination with Verizon and other Rhapsody exclusively served firms, musical tracks in MP3 (maybe WMA too) are encoded and loaded into your music player. When not buying, they have a license to play programmed into them for the legnth of your membership --one month or a year. As your player is turned on and used for music-playing, its computer program sweeping reviews all tracks and expels or freezes 'tracks' with expired licenses. The tracks you have stored - those which are owned by you - are untroubled. The entire license to play/listen is part of Rhapsody & Verizon (et al)'s approaches to conserving copyright & paying royalties.
Yes you can buy a track for 99 cents, or an album for as little as $9.99. I am able to store on my Verizon cell phone, which has a music player, as many as 200+ tracks (90% of which I just borrowed with the monthly Rhapsody music library system subscription.). (Your kids can have a hay-day).. The number of computers and music players authorised per account is restricted; and most Verizon sold products are 'bluth-tooth' enabled for playing and enjoying at your personal computer.
And the Rhapsody downloading program can be used at most cafe or library computers without a permanent hard drive storage.
Oh yes, DEBRIEF gave up the onec convenient Boostmobiel mobile internet cell-phone, for a Mobile 2.0 pre-pay Verizon appliance with great service & 95%+ mobile sites acecss; and the old "phone company" coverage. (cf. PhoneScoop for a review of the US Starcom Blitz -- which is sold by Verizon as a pre-pay package at their telephone stires & discount stores like Wal-Mart).
