With over 1,000,000 songs on offer to download and buy the Napster & Napster UK
sites can quite rightfully claim to be the world’s most recognized brand name in the online digital music sector.
The Napster service has been developed over years – they really do have a history in the downloading sector and they really do know what they are doing. The site was originally set up as a P2P site where users could download audio tracks and albums from the collections of other users and thus share all kinds of music.
This obviously didn’t much please record companies and artists as the company was operating in a legal rights ‘grey’ area and was ultimately closed down.
The relaunch of Napster saw the site come back incredibly strongly – this time with a full legal service and with the five major record labels and hundreds of independent labels on board. This service could fill any music lover’s MP3 player with ease!
Napster & Napster UK have been designed to offer the optimum services for their users. You can simply use the site as an online store to buy any song you fancy at a competitive rate. If you go this route then you get to keep the tracks you buy and you can do what you want with them. But there’s more to the technology than this.
For example, if you take out a membership package then you can add other options such as listening to as much music as you like from your computer. You also get access to the Napster community at the same time. And, if you take out a subscription to the Napster to Go service, then you can fill and refill your MP3 player with the entire Napster library whenever you like as well as getting access to all the other Napster services and to the store.
One thing to note here is that the subscription service does have one big drawback for some users. You can download as much music as you want as often as you want with Napster to Go, for example, but you can only listen to it while you are subscribed to the service. If you choose to leave then your downloaded music collection will effectively disappear.
The system works on a rights protection software program that kicks in whenever you connect your MP3 player – if Napster tells the software that you no longer subscribe then you can’t play the music at all unless you subscribe again. But, the subscription service runs on a low monthly fee so this won’t worry most music lovers.
And, as this kind of subscription service is relatively new you may find that it doesn’t yet work with your MP3 player so you’ll need to check out compatibility first. If you’re an iPod user then Napster just won’t work for you at all.
The kinds of services that Napster offers are one of the new big things in the digital downloads sector – so, if you’re looking to buy a new MP3 player at some point it’ll be worth while getting a model that is compatible with this kind of service.
In fact, if you shop around, you can buy players now that come bundled with free offers for the service so you can give it a go and see before you buy. One extra incentive to join up as a member is the fact that you’ll be able to buy tracks and albums from the store at cheaper rates if you do join up so this is well worth thinking about.