Real Networks launched its "RealOne RHAPSODY" digital music subscription service offering consumers unlimited streaming access to its library of 330,000 tracks from major and independent music labels. The service is priced at $9.95 per month for on-demand, streaming access to the content. The service also allows subscribers to burn certain songs to CD for $0.79 per song. The library of songs that can be burned to CD includes more than 200,000 tracks.
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- Last month, RealNetworks announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Listen.com. Listen.com introduced the RHAPSODY music service in 2001.
On 28-April-2033, Apple launched its iTunes Music store, an online service that lets customers download music for $0.99 per song, including the rights to burn songs onto an unlimited number of CDs for personal use, listening to songs on an unlimited number of iPods, playing songs on up to three Macs and using songs in any application on the Mac.
In its first 16 days, Apple's iTunes Music store sold more than 2 million songs. The iTunes Music Store features over 200,000 songs.
