Re: Rhapsody on the Nokia N800
 

Terve Bergie,

If you PM me, I may be able to help you there my friend. Are you in the Helsinki area?

Re: Rhapsody on the Nokia N800
 

Those were my 2 compliants as well.

I'd even settle for a temporary cached library, where the stored songs expire after a certain amount of time and need to be refreshed by a connection to the Rhapsody server. IMO that makes the service fully useful.

Re: Rhapsody on the Nokia N800
 

You can listen offline if you save to your hard drive..but I don't think you can do that on the N800

Re: Rhapsody on the Nokia N800
 

First off a disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Rhapsody in any way besides appreciating their work to bring the service to the n800.

To start, I REALLY like the fact their demo subscription doesn't require any details like a credit card to start billing you as soon as the trial period is over!
I'm not sure why people are giving the service such low marks for selection... I'm checked and all the bands I looked for were present and then some; I'm not your average pop-culture listener either. I like the organization and simplicity of the application, and this may very well take the place of my $12.99/mo XM radio subscription. Being able to play *any* song I want, save playlists, etc., is very important when I'm sitting around work all day. It also seems to be of a much higher quality than XM which ticked me off when I got XM and discovered "CD quality" was anything but. Having the DJs talk over the top of songs, heavy cross-fading, well you get the picture.
At any rate, it's a flexible way to play your music and if you're concerned about listening offline I suppose you could time-shift your music via a script of the recorded line-in wav data compressed to mp3 to play in the car. Not that I sanction that type of thing or want to get sued! ;-)

My biggest question about the service is if it supports "Rhapsody to Go" (the n800 is listed on that page) and if it's possible to sign up on a PC and use the service from your n800 on the go as long as you're not logged in simulataneously. Didn't see anything about it on the pages.

Larry

Re: Rhapsody on the Nokia N800
 

Or even better, not having to use a PC running Windows at all. Download the AAC file and store it in an external memory card, playable offline. This might require paying $15 a month rather than $10 though.

Has anyone tried upgrading from the trial to one of the subscription choices? Does your current library get migrated?

Re: Rhapsody on the Nokia N800
 

The service is really far more interesting than I would have expected for a DRM-enabled service with limited download capability. I just drove from Baltimore to DC while streaming Rhapsody on the N800 over an EV-DO connection.

The informational web links from the "Now playing" screen seem to work. The web integration in the other direction is potentially a problem for N800 users, though...

The Rhapsody site does not recognize the N800's stock browser as a supported one. If I click through from the now playing screen, you can view information on artists,albums,and playlists,but if I attempt to click on any of the links to add playlists or to add to "My library" the site complains about the browser.

Re: Rhapsody on the Nokia N800
 

Just got an Unlimited subscription (there's a $5 quarterly discount if you opt to pay every three months), and the good news is, there is a 'migrate account' option. The bad news? It does not work, and I forgot to dump my old library content out first.

Hopefully will be fixed before the trial account expire.. hmm.

Re: Rhapsody on the Nokia N800
 

I complained because I couldn't find a single Eagles song. IMO that's huge, given the popularity of the band. I'm guessing others that complained had similar experiences.

Re: Rhapsody on the Nokia N800
 

There's no Showaddywaddy! ;)

The Eagles missing is something of a major omission - must be a licensing issue? As for the lack of Showaddywaddy, it must be down to good taste.

(If you don't know who Showaddywaddy are, be very very grateful) :D

Re: Rhapsody on the Nokia N800
 

I've been enjoying the Rhapsody application - all the music I like is available. However, I have a question about the 'Search' feature. It works OK using album or artist searches, but it always returns a blank when I search for an individual track (even if I know the track is available).
Has anyone else seen this problem? Thanks,
Howard