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Rhapsody has wrapped up its BlackBerry beta and is now offering its streaming music service on App World. After signing up for a $10/month subscription, you can get access to 10 million tracks on demand over either Wi-Fi or 3G, tune in to tailor-made radio stations, listen to what’s popular, browse through categories of music, or search for specific songs. If you particularly like a song, you can also buy it for between $0.69 and $1.29/track.
Rhapsody also has Android and iPhone clients, but I’m finding it hard to really differentiate between the multitude of streaming music apps these days. Pretty much all of them let you bring up songs on-demand, listen to a playlist generated by user input, and buy songs on your phone. It’s rare that I have trouble finding any particular song on any of them, though I suppose the more obscure your tastes are, the more important a wide selection is. The only feature really left for mobile music apps to explore is integrating Shazam-style music ID within their apps.
In any case, you can download Rhapsody in the BlackBerry App World, just be sure to sign up for a subscription first.
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
