I was one of those people about 10 years ago who used Napster (www napster com) to download free music when no one thought anything of it. So I set out to do some research to see how much does Napster cost lately?
Napster Costs
- Get the Napster free trial through this link and it gives you access to the same service and downloads that following memberships do for a week.
- The Napster To Go® service is $14.95 a month and that lets you stream an unlimited amount of tracks and download them to your computer and up to three MP3 players or cell phones.
- The regular Napster® service is $12.95 a month and you can stream all the songs you want but you have to buy each track to put on your MP3 player.
If you want to burn tracks to CD you have to pay for each MP3 with either membership.
Seems to me like the “To Go” service is the only one that is worth it.
Napster Reviews
I checked out what some people and Websites had to say about Napster - complaints and positives:
- You don’t have to download and install software - all downloads are done right from the browser.
- The quality of the MP3 files are very high at 192 Kps.
- There is a PC version of Napster but it is not recommended and people have trouble with it.
- The free streaming does not work as well on Mac browsers and Firefox.
- The cost is incredibly cheap compared to iTunes but remember that the fee is monthly.
- You may want to download plenty of songs for a few months or use the free trial and then cancel.