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February 07, 2005

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Napster Do the Math Commercial

Napster Do the Math Commercial

Did you see the Napster Superbowl commercial? In the Napster commercial they show the cost of 10,000 songs via Napster vs. buying 10,000 songs via iTunes. Since iTunes charges $1 per song for $10,000 total and Napster charges a flat-rate unlimited monthly subscription fee, it's easy to see who "supposedly" wins this Superbowl battle... ITunes fans/iPod fans are in an uproar over this commercial. Anyway, this reminded me of a Napster problem with Windows Media Center Edition 2005. Actually it's a problem with Napster used with a Linksys Media Center Extender - a wireless multimedia extender which I reviewed here. In the comments of my Linksys MCX review, you'll notice that someone posted an issue with Napster and the Linksys MCX, which I pasted below:
 
Looks like there are Napster issues with Linksys Media Center Extender. Nap Anybody have a problem logging into Napster through the extender? Using the remote, I input my user name and password, and click sign-in. It then tells me the "server has timed out, try again". I am able to get into Napster via Media Center on the PC, but not with the extender. Called both napster and linksys, no help.
I too tried getting Napster to work with the Linksys MCX but with no success.  I emailed Linksys and they said they'd look into it, but it's been 3 weeks and counting.  Not holding my breath...


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Not surprised the "I" people are aroused, very hard-hitting ad IMHO. Sorry to hear they're falling down on the wireless side of service...

Posted by: Chris P. at February 7, 2005 04:59 PM

I would say that napster is misleading people in their ad. How much have I spent on music for my iPod (40 GB) about $100 +/- $20 and I got the iPod in Dec of 2003. Now let’s look at how much I would have to spend to keep said music from the napster-2-go service. Well it is $15 a month times 17 months, so to keep them all that time it would have cost $255 and that is if I would cancel the subscription after 17 months. But want I would lose the music, you are telling me I have to continue to pay $15 a month?? But what if there is no music I want to buy this month??? I still have to pay????? Why can I not just pay $1 a song and have them for as long as I want, and not have to continue to pay for it. and no it will not cost $10,000 to fully fill up your iPod, well maybe if you don't already have some mp3 or CD's it might, but if that is the case what rock have you been living under. When I got my iPod (40 GB) it was 1/4th full even before I started to look on the iTMS. Also I did not rush out and buy all the songs at once, I buy 1 maybe 2 a month (some months I buy a whole album some months I buy nothing) So my music bill a month is right now an average of $7.06 a month, based on the amount of music I paid for and the number of months since I got the iPod, that is ¾ the price of Napster. Plus I don’t have to pay that much this month or next month, that music will stay playable, as long as I remember my password. Also when I got the shuffle on Friday it did not cost me $120 to fill up (yes I only got the 512Mb one it is for biking use only, that is about 8.8 hours of music more then enough for a bike trip) The cost to fill it up was $0 since I had already owned all the music. Sorry about the long winded post, but that is what I think.

Posted by: Michael P. O'Connor at April 11, 2005 10:39 AM
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