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To help these patrons filter through all of the music download websites on the internet and find free and legal MP3 downloads, we have compiled a list of free and 'almost free' websites. Since there is no hope of Santa returning in the near future, we are finding ourselves explaining over and over again that, yes there is free music available, but it may not be the top 40 hits and it may not be legally uploaded to the internet. Not just any music - current and popular music. Whether 25 free songs a month are enough to induce that remains to be seen the average Rhapsody customer listens to nearly 10 times that many songs in an average month.As the holiday season wraps up, many of our patrons are bringing in shiny new MP3 players and looking to us to magically fill their MP3 players with music.

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Non-subscribers who receive a Rhapsody playlist can play the songs if they download the Rhapsody software and register for free. In addition to the 25 free songs, Rhapsody 25 allows users to listen to 25 of RhapsodyвЂ™s online radio stations and send song playlists to their friends. But Glaser said the companyвЂ™s focus is on making Rhapsody more appealing to casual music fans - and persuading more people to try a sample. Real is following suit, introducing a $15-a-month вЂњRhapsody To GoвЂќ aimed at music aficionados to go along with its non-portable $10-a-month service.

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Led by Napster Inc., they have introduced more expensive subscriptions that allow users to listen not only on their computers, but also on a handful of portable players. To attract more customers, some of RealвЂ™s competitors have tried to make their offers seem more like owning music than renting it. But the route to public acceptance could be long and rocky because people are accustomed to buying music as a product and not a service, such as cable TV, said analyst P.J. Several industry analysts predict that the music-buying public ultimately will embrace subscription-based services, which offer unlimited listening for a flat monthly fee. The key, he said, вЂњis to take that energy and funnel that into the legitimate market.вЂќ

Glaser noted that as many as 40 million people a month were downloading music from those networks, according to estimates by BigChampagne, a Los Angeles company that monitors file sharing.

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Yet RealвЂ™s share, like that of other companies in the field, remains a tiny fraction of the number of people buying music - or downloading bootleg copies for free from file-sharing networks like Kazaa. Glaser claims that RealвЂ™s premium online radio stations and Rhapsody are the nationвЂ™s most popular subscription-based online music services, with more than 1 million subscribers between them. A smaller number of people have signed up for services such as Rhapsody, which enable users to hear an unlimited number of songs for a flat monthly fee. The market for music online has been dominated by Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store, which sells downloadable songs for 99 cents each.

RhapsodyвЂ™s updates, which also include more personalization and portability, are the latest moves by fledgling music services to popularize the idea of buying access to music rather than the songs themselves. вЂњWe now have this ability for anybody to get access to the jukebox in the sky, without having to be a subscriber,вЂќ said Rob Glaser, chief executive of Seattle-based RealNetworks. The new service gives registered users 25 free plays a month from RhapsodyвЂ™s online jukebox, and it lets them send songs to their friends. The company unveiled Tuesday an advertiser-supported online music service, dubbed вЂњRhapsody 25,вЂќ along with several new wrinkles in the existing version of Rhapsody. plans to let them listen for free - up to a point. To get people hooked on its Rhapsody subscription music service, RealNetworks Inc.

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