Beleaguered “Napster has increased the subscription fees for its digital music service by about 30%, from $9.95 per month to $12.95 per month, the company said in an e-mail to subscribers,” Mark Hefflinger reports for Digital Media Wire.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Just give up the charade already, sheesh.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “HMCIV” for the heads up.]
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still a great bargain
always a bad deal
bargain? serious?
That’s about what I pay for Sirius.
Customers? Gouge ’em one good time before they’re gone! Most of them won’t even notice for several months. They should have read the contract. It says right there in the fine print they’ve got to pay or lose their music. You gotta love good old fashioned greed.
They’re still around? :: scratches head ::
You almost have to wonder if they’re trying to chase off their last 5 customers so they can really drive their business into the ground?
Bargain? $150- year? To rent music? Ouch And folks complain about the cost of .mac.
I give Napster till the summer to abandon subscription services and end of the year to close up shop.
This is exactly what the smart prognosticators foretold, and ‘shux’ hits the cynical nail on the head;
Napster Inc. sees the writing on the wall and is trying to squeeze a few last drops of blood from naive customers before Napster executives turn out the lights, shut the door, and jet off to their villas to plan their next heist.
150 USD a year to listen to your choice of music, because you do not own the songs from Napster. That’s how the subscription works – I’m I right?
Either, Radio is sounding truly amazing these days or I should kiss Steve Jobs FEET that iTunes is in business.
RITS (rot-in-the-soil) Napster.
Specially since the RIAA will be knock their door again soon.
This is a last dash for cash before the flush down the toilet bowl.
$12.95 to steal all you can eat, before they are gone forever.
Yes, we rent music. People seem to love custom playlists.
We were so sneaky. Tee hee. But now that the RIAA is onto use for housing all this music that we bought and copied it to our server we need to prepare for the cost of our lawyers.
Thx to all our supports for understanding and sticking with us.
Nick
I didn’t know you could subscribe! Darn it, I’ve been spending over $50 a month to buy songs from iTunes for the last two years. But since I don’t have much room on my hard drive, I delete them before I buy the next batch. The heck with Apple. I’m moving to Napster!
@ TT
I get really tired of hearing about how subscriptions are such a great way to ‘discover new music!’ when you can get satellite for the same price. If I want to discover new music, I’d rather have a limitless stream of a gazillion live stations than a big pot to download from.
As soon as I make a playlist, I have become attached to that music. But my playlists tend to be masterpieces, well planned, with song edits, cross fades, samples and vignettes that follow a theme. They take me hours, sometimes days to perfect. If I’m going to take the time to do this, I am going to own the music I use (or steal it fair and square). I will not be told that my favorite driving mix is going to cost me more a month to keep playing.
Subscriptions just suck suck suck. I love music way too much for that.
LorD1776 is right. I-Tunes has too many hidden costs associated with the pay-per-download model. You need to add hard drive space to store all of those songs you’ve purchased and downloaded. Apple’s sheisters don’t tell you about that when you register for their proprietary service, do they?
$12.95 is a bargain for all of that fabulous music on Napster in the wonderful WMA format—and I don’t have to go out buy another hard drive to experience their top notch service. Besides WMA’s play just fine on my Ditty and my Zune. Apple, just give up the charade already, sheesh.
Your potential. Our passion.™
MDN-ers check it out — I am 95% certain Zune Tang® and ChrissyOne are the same! Their posts came in at the same time. The jig is nearly up.
The 5% uncertainty is only because ligatures weren’t mentioned in both posts. That would have sealed the deal. Hmmmmmm.
I kind of rushed the last few lines – the Flintstones just came on.
Dewy
@Ottmar Mergenthaler – U d’man
I have had the very same hunch for over a month.
Review other comments and you can almost trace the thought patterns. And because she is so intelligent, faking a multi, yet virtual personality would be a piece of pie from Apple.
w8nc
Zune Tang, you are wrong.
http://www.napster.com/compatible_devices/
They will NOT play on your Zune.
@ Ottmar Mergenthaler
ZT constantly bites my style, hence his stealing my talking-points.
I’d love to take credit for ZT, but alas, it’s not me. I don’t quite have *that* much spare time on my hands.
My comment has been supported by Zune Tang. Even though I was joking, I am ruined. What little credibility I may have had is gone.
Thanks Zuney. Ya sure know how to hurt a guy.
ChrissyOne,
If it’s true that you are Zune Tang, then I hope your legs grow together. If it’s not true, then may your legs spread far and wide forever!
And THAT is why she is so welcoming here… as Zune Tang for Satire and ChrissyOne as a Mac faithful.
w8nc
@ You d’man
{sigh} Okay, I, then I am the messiah!!!
“SHE IS THE MESSAIAH!!!”
Hey, there’s your proof. ZT types far more accurelyut than idoo.