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Napster: Napster Light
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Napster (Nasdaq: NAPS), among the most recognized brands in digital music, is a leading provider of online music for the consumer market. Napster.com is the only legal, advertising-supported service that gives web users the power to legally listen on-demand to a massive catalog of music from major and independent labels, wherever they are on the Web- for free. The Napster music subscription service offers a premium experience that includes unlimited access to CD-quality music and advanced discovery, community and programming features in an advertising-free environment, and Napster To Go subscribers ... enjoy unlimited transfer of music to a compatible MP3 player. In addition, Napster offers an a la carte download store, Napster Light.
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Napster(R), the world's biggest brand in digital music, is a subscription service that enables fans to access the world's largest and most diverse online collection of music and experience the largest number of features. Napster subscribers have more ways to discover, share and acquire new music and old favorites with community features like the ability to email tracks to friends and browse other members' collections. Subscribers to Napster can listen to full-length songs from every major record label and hundreds of independents on demand for a low monthly fee. Napster ... offers Napster Light, a "lighter" version of the service for those who just want to purchase songs and albums a la carte. Napster is a division of Roxio, Inc., , the Digital Media Company, provider of the best-selling digital media software in the world. Napster is headquartered in Los Angeles.
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* XM + Napster requires a separate monthly subscription fee. If you'd rather not sign up for a Napster subscription, you can still sign up for XM + Napster Light and you won't have to give your credit card information when setting up an account. With either option, you must have your active XM Radio ID and billing zip code to register.
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On February 23, 2004, Roxio announced that Napster 2.0 had sold 5 million tracks since its launch in October, 2003, and attracted roughly 1.5 million customers. However, at this point the number sold was still far behind Apple Computer's iTunes Store, which by January 6, 2004 had sold over 30 million tracks. Analysts were further concerned when it came to light around February 23 that the Hewlett Packard (HP)-Apple deal to bundle iTunes with all new HP PCs in return for an HP-branded iPod had originally been Napster's deal, which was cancelled a few days before Napster 2.0's October 29 launch.
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