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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The Zune can’t play Napster playlists.
Thank goodness
@ LorD1776
I have no clue what that means. If I’m ZT, you want me to become a mermaid?
Uh, you guys don’t deal with empirical evidence very well, do you? The times of our posts are the same to the minute, and I don’t type that fast. I supposed I could have pre-typed it…
“SHE IS THE MESSIAH!!!”
Now go away!
ChrissyOne,
Yes, and please wear those seashell things. That is SO hot !!!
@ LorD1776
;P Then I’m changing my name to Madison. Or EEE E EEE EEE EE!!!
-Madison
Thank goodness or Goddess C1 still has some secret identity.
Who would of guessed she is the Messiah!
Besides, a woman shall rule far more fairly anyway – “I didn’t just wimp out did I”?
I am still using Atari’s “spell as I type” feature and still I can’t spell nor do multi-person-identity whatevers.
w8nc
ChrissyOne,
How do we know you haven’t been cloned?
Hell, you could be everyone on this forum! The rest of us might not even exist! I’m getting scared.
Ditto there, C1.
I have my iPhone for the music I own (loaded my new Miles “Round About Midnight” and Yoakam’s “Dwight Sings Buck” CDs last night. Somewhere in Russia a diehard Communist tOWERtONE is loading Kanye West and Jacopo Peri)
I have my CD player for old style.
I have my FM for local.
I have my Sirius for everything else (almost)-including 146.
And of course, my AM, for Rush!
“EEE E EEE EEE EE!!!”
I love it when you talk dirty!
TT,
“And of course, my AM, for Rush!”
Is that for when you are on the shitter?
Since “madison” is so uhmmmm well lower on the playlist.
“Thanks goodness OUR goddess C1 ain’t u know who.”
AND — well dude,
LorD1776 – what is with that, you said.
“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!”
Grow together to become what a mermaid?
Ewww – I not feeling good.
-Dewy
Lord
No. The shitter is for he New York Times. I recycle….
TT,
Good for you. Conservatives can be ‘green’ too.
But I’m just glad I don’t have to pick up your recyclables.
ericdano,
Did I say Napster files play on my Zune? My bad. Napster files play on my Zoon. I picked up the Zoon at an outdoor market while visiting friends in China this past summer. It’s a near duplicate of my brown Zune which only plays files from Microsoft’s magnificent Zune Marketplace software. You can see how I might be confused. Anyway, the Zoon plays those fantastic WMA files from anywhere because it has a clone of the chipset and firmware in a Siren Edge 4GB, which is on the compatible devices list. I like my Zoon almost as much as I like my Zune.
Your potential. Our passion.
P.S. I am not ChrissyOne. I don’t have that much time to make mind-blowing playlists. I let my eclectic taste in music speak for itself in shuffle mode on my Zoon. It’s a magic moment when that thing goes from Styx to Journey then a little REO Speedwagon. Really shakes things up.
Dewy,
I’m not sure what I meant. I was watching the Flintstones at the same time. Yaba daba doo!
Anyone that ever lived on a farm knows how to be ‘green’.
It’s like cutting firewood. You better do it, or you’ll be sorry.
“t’s a magic moment when that thing goes from Styx to Journey then a little REO Speedwagon. Really shakes things up.”
Ya gotta admit, that was pretty funny.
TT,
“You better do it, or you’ll be sorry.”
I’ve never lived on a farm, but that also applies to cutting cheese. I’ll bet even ChrissyOne has done that.
ChrissyOne,
I’m sorry. That was just so wrong.
“It’s a magic moment when that thing goes from Styx to Journey then a little REO Speedwagon. Really shakes things up.”
See, to me, this sort of thing isn’t even funny.
@ LorD1776
You say the oddest things.
Though I do love cheese.
Regarding Zune Tang’s true identity:
First, envision in your minds MDN and Zune Tang standing side by side.
Next, remove MDN’s eyeglasses. Now do you understand?
@ LorD1776
Thanks. Now I just envisioned Zune Tang in red-and-blue tights.
I’m with ChrissyOne on this.
Journey. Styx. REO Speedwagon.
NOT FUNNY. HORRIFYING.
Zune, you are one sick bastard.
“I’ll bet even ChrissyOne has done that.”
Yes, but it’ll cost you 5 bucks extra…..
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And what’s ZT got against a little Kansas, too?