Here's What Other Vcast Rhapsody Users Had to Say:
With Vcast Rhapsody, there are two ways to get music. You can use the Rhapsody player storefront on your computer, or you can browse on your phone.
Verizon does a decent job of letting you search for music and browse. It is best if you know what you want -- or at least have an idea of what you want -- when you start using the phone-based client, it is somewhat painful.
Downloading entire albums to the phone [over the air] is... not practical. There's no way to "buy all" on the phone itself. You have to download each track individually.... I will say, however, that the songs download fairly quickly, thanks to Verizon Wireless's healthy 3G network. Once a song has [been] downloaded to the phone, it is automatically added to your library complete with album art, etc.
What about your PC? Well, let's say you've downloaded a song to your phone. Next time you log into Rhapsody on your PC, it will automatically tell you that you have downloads waiting. The song that you bought on your phone is then downloaded to your PC and added to your Rhapsody library. So you get two copies of the song, one for your PC and one for the phone, for $1.99. The PC copy is ripped at 256Kbps, and the phone copy is ripped at 64Kbps.
The discovery process on the PC is far more rewarding. The interface for the Rhapsody music guide is intuitive and easy to use. You can perform searches, or browse at will. The front page is constantly changing depending on the hottest new tracks that are available. There are nice features for certain artists and Rhapsody has cataloged genre after genre after genre. You can choose to buy songs, which downloads a copy to your PC, or you can stream them. Streamed tracks are added to your library, but not actually downloaded to your machine. You can also recommend or share songs with friends.
Rhapsody had nearly everything I searched for. The selection is astounding. Having access to millions upon millions of songs is fantastic. You can listen to all of it for that $15 monthly fee.
In all, there's a lot to like. If you like having a wide selection of music and don't want to pay all that much for it, Rhapsody certainly gets the job done. Syncing music between your PC and phone is simple enough. The Rhapsody player works well, and lets you mange your music the way you want to.
If I were a full-time user of Windows machines, I would recommend Rhapsody. Being able to add Rhapsody songs to a Verizon Wireless phone is a nice added bonus.
Review info gathered from: InformationWeek.com
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The V Cast Music with Rhapsody service lets you purchase and download songs over the air to your phone, plus a simultaneous download to your PC. The monthly fee also goes toward the Rhapsody subscription, which lets you stream music to your PC, plus you can transfer subscribed tracks to a compatible phone. The interface is easy to use on both the phone and the desktop.
...the Rhapsody To Go service lets you authorize up to three devices. ...we wish we were able to stream songs wirelessly to a compatible 3G phone.
The V Cast Music with Rhapsody experience is easy to use and understand, and, by combining both the mobile download and the Rhapsody subscription service in one monthly plan, delivers considerable bang for the buck .
Review Information gathered from: Cnet.com
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