Instant Cheese
Jamie Kohns on March 20th, 2006
Summer is just around the corner, and with it come backyard barbeques, pool parties, and general outdoor get-togethers galore. And with any event, music is always required. Hooking a computer to the stereo and letting your 250-gigabyte colleciton of mp3's play randomly or in some sort of playlist usually does the trick, but inevitably someone will want to hear Def Leppard's Pour Some Sugar On Me, or Sir Mix-A-Lot's Baby Got Back (and hopefully, you don't have these in your collection). Well, if you're a Rhapsody subscriber, the solution is now easy as pie, becuase the Rhapsody service is now available from a web interface (meaning no software to download and install). Anywhere you go, you can tap into millions of tracks online, all streamable on-demand.
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I know it sounds like a paid endorsement, but it's not- I simply have loved my Rhapsody experience since I signed up well over a year ago. I listen to it at work, at home, and now I can take it with me wherever I go, well as long as there's an internet connection.
The search interface is easy enough to locate just about any song you want, and the player is straightforward and easy to use. Something lacking in this BETA version of the Rhapsody web site is the ability to add a track to your queue without stopping the current track playing. Also, the player only seems to work in Internet Explorer and Firefox version 1.5. As well as having a classic collection of cheese-ball party tunes for your family barbeque, Rhapsody also has dozens of exclusive live performaces, interviews, and new releases are usually available in the system by midday on Tuesdays (yes, you could run out at midnight on Tuesday to Tower Records to pick up that new Girls Aloud release, but why not wait a bit and stream it at the office the next day? Oh, I mean why not other than any boss with musical taste would fire your ass). Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me |
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