Subscription Music Services

Anyone signed up for one of these yet?

The two main players in the field have been Napster and RealPlayer's Rhapsody Service. Both run about $15 a month.

Now Yahoo! is offering subscription music service for only $5 a month ($7 if you pay by the month; $60 for a year)

I'm very seriously thinking of signing up for this. You can access 1 million songs, and put them on playlists. You can put playlists on portable music devices, or access your playlists from any computer anywhere.

I think, but I'm not sure, you can browse through other people's playlists (via Yahoo! Messenger) and use that to come up with ideas to fill up your own favorites lists. Much like the old old Napster...

So, I'm wondering whether anyone here has tried it. One concern - a million songs sounds like a lot, but when I've checked for a couple favorite songs on Napster or 99¢ download places, the songs aren't there. I'm thinking may 1 million songs isn't all that many after all.

- Sue