The Soundtrack of Our Era: Broadband, Cell Phones and Our Favorite Music
Posted on 10 March 2010
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. Yet, most new cell phones can do just that, especially the mobile phones carried by younger people.
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. High quality streaming music to our computers has moved well beyond the pipe dream stage long ago–well, I guess, it hasn’t really been all that long.
Napster.com, started as a free trading music set, but it has transformed itself into the holder of the largest music catalog on the entire Internet–over seven million titles and still growing. While it is not free, as it was in the wild days of the early Internet, it is still an amazing bargain. The site provides what is widely regarded as the greatest bargain for music fans with a three month introductory subscription, with renewals at the same low rates. 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. You also get unlimited streaming audio, which, believe me is great! You can listen to the entire catalogs of your favorite artists or, if you prefer, entire albums of a variety of artists. 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 Ipod, Zune and many others. In fact, if you cell phone has this option, you can even carry the music you’ve downloaded from Napster on that, as well.
You have unrestricted rights to these recordings, so you can move them around to different devices that you own. You can even burn a CD for yourself.
There is a huge list of musical genres. If you are similar to me, you choose from a lot of different genres, but if your tastes are more specific, you will certainly find your favorite genre. 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. Where can you find that much pleasure at that price?
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