RealOne Rhapsody Offers $0.79 transfer to CD.
RealNetworks
Inc. has announced a new music service, RealOne Rhapsody, a co-branded
version of the Rhapsody digital music subscription service. RealOne Rhapsody
offers consumers unlimited, ‘all you can eat’ access to their library of major
and independent label music with more than 330,000 tracks available for
on-demand listening and more than 200,000 songs available for transferring to
CD, aka ‘burning.’ At only $0.79 per track, RealOne Rhapsody offers subscribers
the lowest per-burn price available to U.S. consumers.
In addition,
RealOne Rhapsody subscribers can burn full albums or custom mix CDs, build their
own custom Internet radio stations, listen to professionally-programmed
stations, and browse extensive music information and editorial recommendations.
Offered with a 14-day free trial, consumers can sign up for RealOne Rhapsody for
$9.95 a month.
“We are thrilled to
introduce RealOne Rhapsody which offers consumers what they want – a deep
library for on-demand listening, a customizable radio service and extremely
affordable burns for those songs they just can’t live without,” said Merrill
Brown, senior vice president, RealOne Services, RealNetworks. “We are especially
excited about the availability of burns to CD for a mere 79¢ – we believe this
is a great offer to consumers who are now realizing the power of online music
services.”
“We are extremely
pleased to join RealNetworks in introducing the newest RealOne service, RealOne
Rhapsody,” said Sean Ryan, CEO, Listen.com. “Rhapsody's unlimited listening
model is already a hit with subscribers, who listen to more than 250 unique
songs a month on average. Adding 79-cent CD burning will enable subscribers to
easily buy and own copies of songs they like the most at the lowest price
anywhere.”
Last month, RealNetworks announced that it had entered
into a definitive agreement to acquire Listen.com. Listen.com introduced the
Rhapsody music service in 2001. The parties expect the acquisition to be final
in the 2nd or 3rd quarter. There are more than one million subscribers to
RealNetworks’ subscription services.
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