Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site The Internet Jukebox (21 Apr 2004) Sure, I've got complaints about Rhapsody. You can't tweak the bass or treble on the sound, the search engine is lame, and the music library has many weird bald spots: only one song from Nevermind and almost no Madonna? (Napster, Rhapsody's main streaming rival, has a slightly different mix of music, but I find the interface clunkier.) And Rhapsody is truly suited only for people who are around broadband computers all day long. That excludes teenagers or anyone who doesn't work near a screen. More important, there are philosophical problems with music as a service. People want songs as property because they understandably want control. They don't want a music label to take their stuff away at the press of a button. Article URL: http://slate.msn.com/id/2099282/ Read 21 more articles from Slate sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: The Secret's in the Schedule: Bending The Mythical Man-Month This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy