There, you can browse artists and albums, you can search for the latest added songs, see what people are streaming most at any given time and also check out the charts and the Napster member collections. The “Browse” family of buttons are a “live” representation of Napster’s status. Clicking on the “message boards” tab again asks the visitor to become a *full* Napster member. To some, this feature become handy for company/product announcements. The Magazine has a few interesting articles, but it is mainly a marketing tool and will probably not be considered very relevant to the media player/purchaser. I found myself wishing that there were more.Ĭlicking on “Radio” will do absolutely nothing until you pay Napster and become a subscription member. Clicking on this link (for example) will take you to a page where you have options to choose from as many as 40-50 full-length video clips. classical, alternative, pop etc), while the front page has a link in the footer about “Videos”. Under Music, you can browse the homepages of each kind of music (e.g. For example, for Home, it will reveal, “Music”, Radio, Magazine and “Message Boards”. Clicking on any of these buttons will reveal a set of subcategory buttons. Napster’s UI has three categories: Home, Browse and Library. Napster 2.0.6.1 is using IE and Macromedia Flash to render its pages. I don’t know how secure it is to give your email address and name, but I did so for the sake of this article, and immediately afterwards, I was able to browse the home page of the app.
Without it, Napster won’t connect to anything. When you start Napster, you are asked to create a free account. It installed both the Roxio burner software as well as the application itself. The installation went over without a hitch. We had a play with it and here is what we think about it and how it compares to iTunes. Two weeks ago we featured an early pick on iTunes for Windows, but today iTunes’ main competitor Napster 2.0 was released for a free download.
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