I Love Rhapsody, but...

I've wrote in the past how much I love Rhapsody. I got a Sansa Rhapsody Player for Christmas and decided to go with the Rhapsody service; I've been impressed with how seamless the player and the music service work with one another. I like the price of the Rhapsody service and I like the fact that I can get virtually any music I want whenever I want. One of my favorite Rhapsody features is their channels, I normally subscribe to the Alternative Channel, whenever I plug in my player in to my computer, and Rhapsody automatically loads my player with about 4 hours of different songs based on whatever channels you have loaded.

Lately I've been getting a bit frustrated with how little Rhapsody plays nicely with other services I would like to use. First I've been trying to find a way to integrate Rhapsody with Last.fm for months now. Every solution I've tried that is supposed to work fails. I love Last.fm, I also love MusicStrands, but I haven't been able to use these since I stopped using iTunes to manage my music.

Rhapsody has made a few strides in opening up; this has become apparent by the changes they've made to their website. I now have a profile with RSS (unfortunately the RSS feeds don't always work), I can access the playlists that I create on the standalone client via the website (which I really like), and I can listen to music through the website if I'm logged in, even when I'm not on my computer. I don't mind using the website at all to listen to music, so when I saw that FoxyTunes should work with Rhapsody Online I downloaded it.

Trying out FoxyTunes right now, however, proved to be another failure. The player is configured to recognize Rhapsody Online as my player, but when I click on anything it just opens Rhapsody Online. When I start playing a song with Rhapsody Online, the player doesn't recognize that one is playing. I was really excited about the fact that FoxyTunes now has some Twitter integration...I guess this is not in the cards for me right now.

I won't be dropping Rhapsody, the price and the ease of use with my player are more than enough to keep me using it, but I hope that they open up soon. There are some great music services out there that I would love to be using right now, but I feel locked out of them.

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