Comments on: ZitZot: Napster still alive, price down to $5 a month

By: Think bigger

Think bigger — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:32:50 +0000

Destroy torrents? They want to break the internet down and rebuild it from the scratch after the pyramid model all the rest of society is based on, no more equality, strictly chain of command, producer, consumer, master, slave. You can see it happening if you just look.

By: What??

What?? — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:48:49 +0000

@28 remember what they said before 'Napster went down?…

I give, what did they say?

By: misiek

misiek — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:19:51 +0000

Napster really did spread the love back then…You will all see…The Feds will destoy Torrents like they did Napster…and that day will really suck…remember what they said before 'Napster went down?…

By: What??

What?? — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:50:48 +0000

There's a HUGE difference between mp3s and lossless files.
There's even a big difference between 128Kbps, 256Kbps and 320Kbps.

wow, I guess some people just have better ears than others.
Or maybe they're just listening on laptop speakers or an ipod.

I still have a lot of music I got from Napster before it was shut down. those are mostly low bit rate mp3 though.

By: SDSailor

SDSailor — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:14:24 +0000

Well forget Napster, I started on IRC way back then, and it still owns. Use of a good script and mp3 channel

By: OFI

OFI — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:39:38 +0000

@18:

And after how much hassle?

I can open Spotify and listen to B-sides that would otherwise take AGES to find elsewhere if even possible and for free.

Sure use torrents etc if all you want is modern pop music but otherwise.. good luck finding the tracks.

Bitrate is 160kbps OGG so far from terrible. Great for get togethers too as you can have (almost) anyones favourite music to hand instantly.

$5/mo isn't bad for the Napster deal at all given that you get the free tracks. Shame they want almost 3x that in the UK at £9.95…

By: Rigs

Rigs — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:55:41 +0000

$5 for a massive database of songs you can download and strip the DRM with Tunebite. And don't have to worry about RIAA and fake files. I'm all over this.

By: martix

martix — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:49:32 +0000

Nice… Teeboho Mokoana nailed it.

But not an app though.

By: Teeboho Mokoana

Teeboho Mokoana — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:34:57 +0000

I'm sorry, what is iTunes?

I am a 29-year old male, I love music and have thousands of songs (also plenty of CD's) and have never, not once in my life, visited this so-called "iTunes".

Paying for CD's, I understand. You pay for something you can feel, put on a shelf and collect. With a CD or an LP or whatever it's not just the music you get… you get the artwork, the booklet, the lyrics (sometimes).

I believe the one true way to go about loving music nowadays and in the future is to:
1. Download music for free
2. Enjoy it wherever and whenever you want. Get interested in the band's work.
3. Tell your friends. Give them the songs or tell them how to get them for free. Get them interested.
4. When prices drop to a reasonable level (under 10 euros, dollars, pounds, etc), buy CD's and collect them. Enjoy the booklets, posters, artwork and the fact you own pieces of music history.
5. Go to concerts. Enjoy paying for tickets, because in a concert the artists WORK and PERFORM for YOU.
6. Tell everyone about how much the concert rocked, get them to download music, get them interested… (repeat steps 1-6)

The "RIAA-approved" method is a bit different:
1. You MUST pay to have access to songs.
2. Your mp3 player, which boasts a capacity of "10.000 songs", has around 8 songs on it, which is the amount of your allowance this week.
3. You sell your 8Gb player and downgrade to a 128Mb version, because you just can't afford that many songs. You buy two more songs and fill up your player.
4. You buy a few more songs (almost as many as there are on the band's CD whick costs a fortune when brand-new) but realize that in order to put them on your mp3 player you must remove the songs that are in memory, sending them to your computer WITHOUT MAKING COPIES, as such is illegal and will get you doing 3 to 5 years.
5. You realize that listening to music is a tremendous hassle and lose interest in said "Band". You turn your adolescent attention to things like drugs, violence or worse: READING.

By: Demoe

Demoe — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:02:25 +0000

Hey, Don't talk bad about Napster!!! Napster started it all. Before torrents and all these P2P programs there was Napster. Growing up in the mid 90's Napster was the first to give us free music. Unfortunately, they got sued and can no longer be the free service they once were. Thank you napster for creating the first generation of online pirates. MUCH LOVE

By: Pilsu

Pilsu — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:43:31 +0000

@17
You need to practice your craft, that plug was as obvious as they get

By: iFreaks

iFreaks — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:20:47 +0000

Doesn't matter if Napster goes free with 320kb/s and iTunes raises it's prices and lowers bitrates. These people are loyal to anything with an "i" in front of it. They have iPods, iMacs and talk on iPhones. If Apple made them they'd watch the iChannel on their iTVs and drive iCars no matter how crappy and overpriced they were compared to other products.

By: jadakiss

jadakiss — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:19:44 +0000

Spotify: Fail

AGREED.

you can pretty much get ANY song you want now online. for Free.

By: Sverige

Sverige — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:44:43 +0000

"i googled spotify, and got a message that it is not available in my country yet.

not available in america?

LOLz.

was there some kind of error?"

Not all good things start in America. Spotify is Swedish and I understand that they want to build a solid base before going to the wild west. Fantastic software that is going to kill iTunes. Hopefully. Free legal music and not taking any space from my hard disk. Some ads once in hour ofcourse but those last like 30sec. I'm willing to pay 9.99€/month soon. It's that good.

By: hemi-sync

hemi-sync — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:37:25 +0000

spotify: Fail

ppl who are unable to differ from bitrate's: Fail

Thank you very much and have a great one!