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I’m in love with the Rhapsody music service<\/A>.  A friend was having a birthday party and wanted “old-style lounge music” by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, and a couple of other crooners.  We typed these names into Rhapsody and it made us a custom radio station playing songs by these folks.  With one username\/password it is possible to run Rhapsody on multiple computers, so I plugged my laptop into a stereo and we had the desired music for the entire party.  So painless that you’d wonder why anyone would want to collect, inventory, and manage a music collection from iTunes or on physical media (unless you are a sound quality snob, in which case SACDs are nice).<\/P>
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Rhapsody is also good for serendipitous discovery of new music.  Today, for example, I stumbled upon a track by “Nitty”.  Rhapsody describes him as follows:<\/P>
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Nitty makes family-friendly rap music that can be enjoyed by little kids and older listeners alike.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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The first sentence of his song (for little kids) contained the words “nigga” and “fuck”.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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