Napster launches MP3 store
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
May 20, 2008 at 8:52am
Napster has launched its own MP3 store. Napster’s Chairman and CEO Chris Gorog claims it’s more than 50 percent larger than any other MP3 store and boasts not only the largest major label MP3 catalog in the industry, but also the largest library of independent music available.
All Napster download sales in the U.S. will be in the DRM-free MP3 format, which is compatible with virtually any MP3 player or music phone including the iPod and the iPhone. Gorog claims that Napster is the first music subscription service featuring major label content to offer 100 percent of its catalog in the MP3 format for download sales.
Pricing for download sales will be 99 cents for single MP3 tracks and US$9.95. Most of the MP3 catalog, including all major label content, is available at 256 kbps bitrate, and downloaded tracks include album art. Consumers can choose to subscribe to Napster’s on-demand streaming service, which is web-based and can be accessed from any Internet-connected computer without downloading software.
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
dave Says:
I love the review where the person found that they would search for a song/artist/whatever, Napster would give them a list of results, all of which have a ‘Buy MP3’ button, and only when you click on the ‘Buy’ button do you find out that the song isn’t actually available for purchase as an MP3.
And I’m not sure why the article uses the term “subscription”, as the subscription service has nothing to do with MP3’s…
Posted on May 20, 2008