Slim Devices integrates Rhapsody

Posted on | July 15, 2006 | No Comments

customers of Real Networks’ Rhapsody music subscription-service can now integrate audio-content from Rhapsody with Slim Device’s Squeezebox (a fine network music player I reviewed for PLAY.FM). depending on the type of Rhapsody-account, users may only consume Rhapsody-Radio (free accounts) or access all their playlists and full-albums (unlimited accounts). either way, Rhapsodys back-catalog of 2mio. songs can’t be browsed on the Squeezebox directly, but can only be accessed through the Rhapsody Jukebox-software (currently only available for Windows XP). unlike the integration of Pandora earlier this year, content from Rhapsody is streamed through the SlimServer-software, which basically means that this only works when the PC remains turned on. one last limitation: due to licensing-issues, Rhapsody is only available to US-customers.

 

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