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Consumer electronics retail chain Best Buy has entered the crowded portable music player fray, teaming up with Sansa player manufacturer Sandisk and RealNetworks for its Rhapsody 4.0 player software and subscription service.
The new combination, which will be available
in Best Buy stores from October 15, has the necessary elements to
compete with Apple's wildly successful iPod and iTunes combination, as
well as the upcoming challenge from Microsoft's Zune and Zune
Marketplace.
The new agreement will see Best Buy outlets sell the Sandisk Sansa
range of Flash based music players, preloaded with the RealNetworks
Rhapsody DNA subscription access and streaming system, plus the newly
released RealNetworks Rhapsody 4.0 music subscription service.
Unlike iTunes, Rhapsody has a subscription service costing US$9.99 a
month for unlimited downloads to PCs and US$14.99 for downloads to
portable players. Users can also buy songs for 99c US, the same price
as tracks from iTunes.
Best Buy plans to offer a free two-month subscription to the Rhapsody service with each Sansa player purchased.
Rhapsody boasts a simplified interface with drag and drop functionality
and automatically generated playlists based on the historical
preferences of customers.
Like Zune, the competitively priced Sandisk Sansa range, which come
with up to 8GB of Flash storage, also have radio tuners, which the iPod
range lacks. However, the Sansa, like iPod, does not have the wireless
functionality that is a feature of Zune.
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