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Napster Beta: Latest Updates

We’ve released another set of updates to the Napster beta site, and we’re excited to keep you in the loop about our efforts. A lot of the updates this time around are things that you hopefully won’t really notice, except that the site will just seem better. Fueled by turkey and cranberry over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been hard at work to make pages load faster, make messages clearer, and generally improve music playback.

That said, something you should look for is that we’ve been adding what we call “Quick Play” buttons in more places across the site. One of the great things about Napster is that you can pick and choose exactly what you want to hear, but we also know that sometimes you just want to kick back and listen. So, we’ve been adding these Quick Play buttons to the headers of different sections around the site; they do things like play all the songs in a Billboard chart, or play a mix of the featured music you’re looking at. This is just a start at some of the features we’re building to make it easier to start enjoying music on Napster. Let us know what you think!

—Adam Korman, Sr. Director, Interaction Design

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Dash's Can't Find'em At All On Napster Playlist
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Another week, another 10 artists & albums that you can't hear on Napster, yet lala and last.fm manage to have free streaming full songs from these bands. Go Figure.

1) sBach - sBach
http://www.lala.com/#artist/sBACH

2) Jeff Hanson - Madam Owl
http://www.lala.com/#artist/Jeff_Hanson

3) Hudson Mohawke - Butter
http://www.lala.com/#artist/Hudson_Mohawke

4) Misery Index - Traitors, plus 2 other albums
http://www.last.fm/music/Misery+Index

5) The Hanks - Your New Attraction
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Hanks/Your+New+Attraction

6) Burst - Lazarus Bird, plus 3 other albums
http://www.last.fm/music/Burst?ac=burst

7) Toxic Holocaust - An Overdose of Death, plus 3 other albums
http://www.last.fm/music/Toxic%2520H...ic%20holocaust

8) Default - Comes and Goes for some reason last.fm has only 30 sec clips of this album, which is unusual, but at least they have it.
http://www.last.fm/music/Default/Comes+and+goes

9) Sudden Weather Change - Stop! Handgrenade in the Name of Crib Death 'nderstand?
http://www.lala.com/#artist/Sudden_Weather_Change

10) Sin Fang Bous - Clangour
http://www.lala.com/#artist/Sin_Fang_Bous

bonus album, Kiss - Sonic Boom .....yes, that Kiss has a new album out. But wait. There is more. Unlucky for us, you can only buy it at Walmart. Yes Walmart! It's a (3 Disc Set) (2 CDs and DVD) (Walmart Exclusive) for $12. And of course there isn't even any 30 second snippets to hear. http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...ct_id=12342102 I guess Napster & Best Buy don't have enough clout to even get Kiss.

If you want, you can copy and paste on the addy, give the bands a listen, then fill out a Music Request form. If you don't want to click on it, then you can google or bing the band and check them out on yer favorite website. It's your Napster, only you can force them to get better.

Posted by: DashboardDJ856 | January 15, 2010 at 10:17 AM

Dash's Can't Find'em At All On Napster's Playlist!

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A new year, a time for more new 30 second snippet songs, and a time for more albums & artists that aren't on Napster, but somehow last.fm, lala, ilike, myspace, & imeem can manage to let us hear full streaming songs for free. That's amazing. Any band or song you can't find on Napster, just google it and I'm sure you will find what you are looking for. This week I filled out 17 more music requests, here are 10 of them, I hope you give the artists a listen and fill out the music request forms for any of the bands you like..

1) How Dare You - Comfort Road
http://www.last.fm/music/How+Dare+You

2) OOIOO - ARMONICO HEWA
http://www.lala.com/#artist/OOIOO

3) Pale Air Singers - Pale Air Singers
http://www.last.fm/music/Pale+Air+Singers <=== last.fm even gives you a free mp3 from the album. Napster you give us what???

4) Secret Broadcast - Exploding Spiders
http://www.last.fm/music/Secret+Broadcast

5) Loving the Lie - Legends Of Charm City
http://www.last.fm/music/Loving%2520...ng%20the%20lie

6) Sloan - Hit & Run
http://www.sloanmusic.com/front

7) Drew Andrews - Only Mirrors
http://www.last.fm/music/Drew+Andrew...+%28Advance%29

8) Small Black - Small Black EP
http://www.lala.com/#artist/Small_Black

9) Husband&wife - Dark Dark Woods
http://www.lala.com/#album/230612448...ark_Dark_Woods

10) Vatican Chainsaw Massacre - Hazy Skies Over Martha's Vineyard
http://www.lala.com/#album/72339069015687182/Vatican_Chainsaw_Massacre/Hazy_Skies_Over_Martha's_Vineyard

Any band I listed above you can find them on myspace, also most of the sites listed have videos and tour dates for these artists. Fill out those music request forms.

If I can find'em, why can't Napster???

Posted by: DashboardDJ856 | January 11, 2010 at 04:44 AM

Dash's Can't Find'em At All On Napster Playlist!

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Here are more albums from that list of 30 that you can't hear on Napster, but I heard on The Verge or SIRIXMU on XM radio while I was driving to work. Napster has some sort of partnership with XM, so you would think that maybe somebody at Napster listens to XM radio and they would wonder why you can't hear these songs on nappy. I know I did! So thanx nappy. You can copy and paste on the links to hear the songs, see videos or find out where that band is playing a concert. It also seems that iTunes carries most of these bands. You can google the band names & check out other websites for more info. Please fill out those music request forms...

Time again for Can't Find'em At All On Napster:

1) Reading Rainbow - Mystical Participation http://www.myspace.com/levarmotherfuckingburton or http://www.insound.com/Reading_Rainb...in/p/ins68685/ <== don't forget insound offers free mp3s

2) Trailer Trash Traceys - Candy Girl http://www.last.fm/music/Trailer+Trash+Tracys or http://www.myspace.com/trailertrashtracys

3) Forest City Lovers - The Sun and the Wind http://www.myspace.com/forestcitylovers or http://www.last.fm/music/Forest+City...n+And+The+Wind

4) Her Space Holiday - XOXO, Panda And The New Kid Revival
http://www.herspaceholiday.com/ or http://www.lala.com/#album/562077381...ew_Kid_Revival

5) The Oh Sees - The Cool Death of Island Raiders
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/The-Ohsees or http://www.ilike.com/artist/The+Oh+S...Island+Raiders

6) Dog Day - Concentration http://dogdaymusic.com/discography/ or http://www.myspace.com/dogdaytheband

7) Quinzy - These Nautical Miles http://mp3skyline.com/rid-0x780ab-qu...-download.html <== you can buy mp3s for 15 cents each on these site, plus hear full songs or http://www.quinzy.ca/contact.html

8( Scream!Hello - Everything is Always Still Happening http://www.purevolume.com/screamhello <=== you download for free the song 20, 21 from the album or http://www.last.fm/music/Scream+Hello/+tracks <=== they have 2 free mp3s

9) Boo Hoo - Don't Die, plus the album Boo Hoo http://www.boohoo.ca/music/ <=== 3 free mp3s from each album

10) The Road Hammers - The Road Hammers II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Hammers or hear it here http://www.last.fm/music/The+Road+Hammers/II

Please fill out those music request forms. If I can find'em, why can't Napster? Napster, yer move!!!

Posted by: DashboardDJ856 | January 02, 2010 at 05:02 AM

Someone mentioned about sales tax added to the bill. If I add a 7%, yes 7% state sales tax, to the $14.95, it comes to $16. Looks like I should move down south, low sales taxes, real estate taxes, car insurance, etc. Well at least they still don't charge us sales tax on toilet paper yet. They tried it years back, but people just went nuts, so they decided not to tax it.

But, you still would think that since Napster is taking money from my credit card monthly, isn't it their responsibility to tell consumers why we are charged more or why they are taking out more money. I didn't authorize them to take out more, just $14.95. Isn't Napster legally responsible to tell me about an added charge to my bill? How does Napster know that maybe the extra $1.05 is someone's breaking point? What's to stop them from taking any amount of money that they want?

Napster?

Posted by: DashboardDJ856 | December 31, 2009 at 05:00 AM

Did I Miss The Memo???
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OK Napster-To-Go subscribers did ya check out the new rate? The NTG has gone from $14.95 a month to $16 a month. So does that mean all of the 30 second snippets are gone? Or maybe all of the artists and albums I list every month are on Napster? Or maybe finally Napster is going to give us free mp3s??? Or just maybe Napster's top executives can now get a better year end bonus for a job well done!!!

I don't remember seeing an email or anything on this blog informing me of the raise in rates. Anyone else? I wonder how many NTG subscribers will finally throw in the towel now and just go to lala, ilike, last.fm or any other of the free, full song streaming sites.

Thanx Nappy!!

Posted by: DashboardDJ856 | December 30, 2009 at 12:38 PM

Dash's Can't Find'em At All On Napster Playlist!
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Here are more albums from that list of 30 that you can't hear on Napster, but I heard on The Verge or SIRIXMU on XM radio while I was driving to work. Napster has some sort of partnership with XM, so you would think that maybe somebody at Napster listens to XM radio and they would wonder why you can't hear these songs on nappy. I know I did! So thanx nappy. You can copy and paste on the links to hear the songs, see videos or find out where that band is playing a concert. It also seems that iTunes carries most of these bands. You can google the band names & check out other websites for more info. Please fill out those music request forms...