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Best Buy joins SanDisk, Real
By Jim Welte - MP3.com
October 6, 2006 at 08:35:00 AM | more stories by this author

Retailer to launch its own digital music store, powered by Rhapsody and integrated with the Sansa e200 series of players, with a Diddy exclusive.

Best Buy is getting back into the digital music game, and it's getting help from SanDisk, RealNetworks, and even Diddy to do so.

BestBuy joins SanDisk and Rhapsody. BestBuy joins SanDisk and Rhapsody.

The big box retailer said it is launching its own digital music store next week, adding its branding muscle to the SanDisk-Rhapsody alliance announced last month. The Best Buy store will be powered by RealNetworks' Rhapsody, which launched an updated version yesterday and will be integrated with SanDisk's Sansa e200R series of players.

"Our goal is to deliver entertainment to our customers how, when, and where they want it, and to help them have the best possible experience," Best Buy's Jennifer Schaidler said in a statement. "The Best Buy Digital Music Store and Sansa e200R are part of that goal, allowing us to provide an end-to-end digital music solution that will deliver unique content and a premium customer experience. Whether they want to purchase downloads or a subscription and have access to all the music, we're giving consumers the ability to enjoy entertainment on their terms."

As previously reported, SanDisk and Rhapsody are hoping to replicate the "walled garden" experience that has propelled Apple's iPod+iTunes to such dominance of the digital music space. "Walled garden" refers to keeping the user from straying outside an integrated system like iPod+iTunes to buy and play music.

The Best Buy Digital Music Store will launch October 15 with an exclusive track from Diddy, who releases his new album, Press Play, October 17. The Best Buy service will mirror the existing Rhapsody prices of $9.99 for unlimited rentals and $14.99 a month for that and the ability to transfer music to compatible portable devices--in this case, the Sansa e200R. The SanDisk players will cost $139.99 for a 2-gigabyte device and $249.99 for 8 gigabytes, the companies said. Those prices are comparable to Apple's 2GB and 8GB iPod Nanos, respectively.

Like Rhapsody, Best Buy's store will also sell individual downloads for 89 cents for subscribers and 99 cents for others, RealNetworks said.

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Posted 05/30/2009 1:16am
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Posted 05/25/2009 9:43am
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Posted 05/25/2009 2:14am
While I’m at it, this is what I also added to my library so I can transfer any time I want: David Bowie, Death in Vegas, Dizzee Rascal, DJ Shadow, Herbalizer, The Streets, The Doves, echo, Elliot Smith, Engine Kid, Electric Six, Failure, Year of the Rabbit, English Beat, Op Ivy, Firewater, Frank Black, Goldfrapp, Gorillaz, Radiohead, REM, Placebo, PJ Harvey, P, On, Old Time Relijun, No Means No, New Model Army, Neil young, Nada Surf, Mountain Goats, National Skyline, Mission of Burma, Morcheeba, Mirah, Mellow, Massive Attack, Liz Phair, Lamb, Levellers, Les Thugs, Kronos Quartet, Kings of Convenience, Killing Joke, Kaito, Justin Sullivan, Janes Addiction, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, Joy Division, Bob Dylon, Jimi Hendrix, IMA Robot, Ivy, Hope Sandavol, Mazzy Star, The Clash, Iggy Pop, Hot Snakes, Drive like Jehu, Grandaddy, Helmet, Government Issue, Girls Against Boys, GBH, Einstuerzende Neubauten, Eels, Dub Pistols, Cornershop, Catherine Wheel, Buzzcocks, Blackalicious, Beth Orton, Basement Jaxx, 7 Seconds, Afterlife, Wrens, Ziggy Marley, XTC, Wire, Ween, Warsaw, Vast, Violent Femmes, Unwound, UNKLE, UK Subs, Tricky, Third World, Burning Spear, Clinton Feron, Meat Beat Manifesto, The Verve, The Vines, The Smiths, The Roots, The Ramones, The Queers, The Pills, The Libertines, The Jam, The Future Sound of London, Theivery Corporation, The Dead Science, The Damned, The Cure, Chemical Brothers, The Accused, Neurosis, Sepultera, Supergrass, Sun Electra, Sun Volta, Strange Cargo, Stevie Wonder, Steele Pole Bathtub, Snow Patrol, Robbie Williams, Screaming Trees, Rastaaliens, Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy, Poster Children, Portishead, Leftfield, Kruder &; Dorfmeister, L7, Sound Garden, Keli Ali, Fila Brazilai, Everything But the Girl, David Holmes, Dido, Clemek, Camper Van Beethoven, Breakbeat Era, Brian Eno, Bhangra Knights, Beastie Boys, Astral Projection, Interpol, New Pornographers, The Kills, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Timo Maas, Coachwhips, Broken Social Scene, Finley Quaye, Halou, Frou Frou, Jello Biafra and the Melvins, Califone, James, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Spooky, Children of Dub, Steve Parry, Naked Raygun, The Vandals, Government Issue, The Minutemen, Tom Waits, Johnny Thunders, The Slits, The Stranglers, Throbbing Gristle, Aphrodite, Sunn, Earth, Mike Ness, charlantans, Stiff Little Fingers, Cocteau Twins, Lush, Husker Du, Alien Sex Fiend, Eddie Grant, Gang of 4, New Order, NIN (new one), Psychic TV, Dilated Peoples, DOA, X, Death Cab for Cutie, The Foo Fighters, Sunny Day Real Estate, Henry Flint, Wilco, Fear, Cracker, Billy Bragg, Urban Species, The Style Council, Big Black, Skinyard, Lets Go Bowling, U2, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Cold Play, Teenage Fanclub, the Decemberists, Kings of Leon, Bright Eyes, The Murder City Devils, The Stills, The The, Black Mountain, The Charming Snakes, Snake Finger, Kraftwork, Mercury Rev, Headphones, Heavy Trash, Travis, The Thermals, Hoodoo Gurus, The National, Hum, Freestylers, Alpinestars, Pavement, Of Montreal, Kasabian, Caribou, The Flaming Lips, Garagland, Negative Lang, Bong Water, A Tribe Called Quest, Dela Soul, Mudhoney, Delays, Overnight Low, MIA, Big Mama Thorton, Lead Belly, Muddy Waters, Jr. Parker, Son Seals, Nick Cave, Swerve, Smog, Golden Smog, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynne, Rosanne Cash, Hank Williams, Wipers, Slayer, Zion I, The **** AM, The Spits, Rosemary's Babies, Pinkos, Generation X, Champion, Nerf Herder, Angry Samoans, The Dwarves, Reagan Youth, SNFU, Agent Orange, Cramps, Reverend Horton Heat, Motorhead, Visqueen, Flop, Aqualung, Brazilian Girls, KJ Sawka, Meat Beat Manifesto, Aphex Twin, Primal Scream, the Earaches, Turin Brakes, Ms. Led, DJ Krush, Love and Rockets, Cat Power, Soul Coughing, The Magnetic Fields, The Cloud Rooms, Gomez, The Dead Science, Evil Twin, The Helio Sequence, The Specials, Maddness, The Bravery, The Germs, The Lords of the New Church, Dropkick Murphies, The Business, Bounty Killer, Baka and Head Of Femur... At least that's what's on my MP3 Player at the moment....
Posted 10/13/2006 11:07pm
This pack is the BOMB! All the music I want for the 15 bucks a month instead of a freakin' dollar a song from iTunes... AND THIS STUFF WORKS! It's no girlie little nano, and it ain't no paperweight Video but that's OK by me, the real deal is RHAPSODY! Here's are some of the bands I put on my device today for NO EXTRA charge, just by dragging and dropping album art, I have to say honestly, this ROCKS!

The Shins, The Postal Service, The Pogues, The Misfits, The Dandy Warhols, Secret Machines, The Walkmen, Arcade Fire, Pixies, Breeders, The Bad Livers, Butthole Surfers, Spoon, Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, South, Elbow, Sonic Youth, Sigur Ros, Mum, Shellac, Raveonettes, BRMC, Velvet Underground, Air, And you will know us by the trail of the Dead, Avengers, Beck, Bjork, Blur, Boards of Canada, Hope of the States, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Calla, Johny Cash, The Clash,
Posted 10/13/2006 11:04pm
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