View Full Version : RealOne Rhapsody -- Burns & Downloads
graystrickland
06-12-2003, 03:11 PM
I just started a RealOne Rhapsody trial subscription. It's sorta like iTunes (I guess -- I'm a Windozer). Listen to anything you want. Burn the songs you like for US$0.79 each. Just to try it out, I picked one song to burn. (It won't let you save to your hard drive -- it forces you to burn to a CD!). I burned it. The resulting track was in CDA format and Windoze say that the file size is 1 kb (talk about compression!). I checked the cd on several computers, including ones which don't have the Rhapsody software installed. All would play the track. All report the track as just 1 kb in size. When I ripped it as a MP3, it ballooned to 4.3 mb.
Q. How can this track really be just 1 kb? -- In *any* format?
Q. How can I bypass burning to a cd and save to the hard drive instead?
graystrickland
06-12-2003, 09:48 PM
OK.... so I 'm showing how little I know about digital audio.
It has been explained to me that the 1kb file doesn't really contain the data, but is a placeholder. The real data is in the CDA (cd audio) file, which, although it can be played on a computer cdrom drive, must be ripped (to mp3, etc.) to be saved to and played on an iPod. Since the download is in raw, uncompressed cd audio format, I guess that there's no hack to trick Rhapsody into just saving to a hard drive instead of burning to a cdr.
I just hate the thought of wasting money on cds that I'll just throw away as soon as I rip the tune to mp3 format.
eustacescrubb
06-12-2003, 10:11 PM
Lookat it this way - with the CD, you'll always have a hard copy backup in case you lose what's on your iPod.
clovell
06-13-2003, 04:21 PM
Can't you use CD-RW media instead of CD-R?
Craig
Chodite
09-22-2003, 11:13 AM
i've just checked out this new Rhapsody service -
http://www.listen.com/rhap_about.jsp?sect=main
Freakin AMAZING. I haven't tried the burning option yet (.79 cents per song), but I've found EVERY song and EVERY CD i've looked for so far. You can also listen to WHOLE songs, CD quality... unlimited. Not just a 30 second clip. This is great.
graystrickland
09-22-2003, 12:01 PM
Yes, I continue to love Rhapsody. One of the things that surprises me somewhat is that the more I use it, the less tunes I burn. I just listen. I'm already hooked.
Now I just need to build a media center pc that fits in my stereo rack that can pull down Rhapsody and play it through my home stereo system.