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Real One RHAPSODY Offers 79¢ Transfer to CD and Access to the World’s Largest Online Library of Major and Independent Label Music.
RealNetworks announced a new music service, Real One RHAPSODY®, a co-branded version of the popular RHAPSODY digital music subscription service. Real One RHAPSODY offers consumers unlimited, ‘all you can eat’ access to the broadest library of major and independent label music with more than 330,000 tracks available for on-demand listening and more than 200,000 songs available for transferring to CD, aka ‘burning.’ At only 79¢ per track, Real One RHAPSODY offers subscribers the lowest per-burn price available to U.S. consumers through any of the new generation of digital music services.
In addition, Real One RHAPSODY subscribers can burn full albums or custom mix CDs, build their own custom Internet radio stations, listen to professionally-programmed stations, and browse extensive music information and editorial recommendations. Offered with a 14-day free trial, consumers can sign up for rapsody for $9.95 a month. Subscribers to RealNetworks’ other subscription services will be able to sign-up for RealOne RHAPSODY service with one click. Please visit www.real.com for details on how to sign up for Real One RHAPSODY.
“We are thrilled to introduce Real One RHAPSODY which offers consumers what they want – a deep library for on-demand listening, a customizable radio service and extremely affordable burns for those songs they just can’t live without,” said Merrill Brown, senior vice president,RealNetworks. “We are especially excited about the availability of burns to CD for a mere 79¢ – we believe this is a great offer to consumers who are now realizing the power of online music services.”
“We are extremely pleased to join RealNetworks in introducing the newest RealOne service, Real One RHAPSODY,” said Sean Ryan, CEO, Listen.com. “RHAPSODY’s unlimited listening model is already a hit with subscribers, who listen to more than 250 unique songs a month on average. Adding 79-cent CD burning will enable subscribers to easily buy and own copies of songs they like the most at the lowest price anywhere.”
Last month, RealNetworks announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Listen.com. Listen.com introduced the RHAPSODY music service in 2001. The parties expect the acquisition to be final in the 2nd or 3rd quarter. With this acquisition, RealNetworks will own two of the Internet’s best subscription content services, the critically-acclaimed and market-leading RealOne SuperPass, which offers leading news, sports and entertainment programming, and the award-winning realone rhapsody music service. There are more than one million subscribers to RealNetworks’ subscription services.