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Old 04-05-06, 08:57 AM   #4
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yes. inasmuch as your typical sound card recorder can handle it for breakfast. but again it's a low-bit encode and for my money (re: effort - it is free) it's not worth the hassle.

another let down is their library's depth or lack thereof. rare breeds don't roam the napster server farm. i suppose this may change but when an established company excludes classics like andy pratt's self-titled chaotic masterpiece (and new england fm favorite), dan folgelberg's devastatingly personal "home free" and batdorf & rodney's eponymous '72 soft-rock demi-opus it's obvious their arrow points directly at the big forehead of middle-brow america. hey, it's working for wal*mart, but unlike brick and mortar operations virtual libraries cost near zero to stock and can and should be as expansive as possible. i mean, my hard drives have more of that stuff than theirs do. the new napster's celestial jukebox fails utterly on that score.

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