Rhapsody?

My Rhapsody was activated this week on my Series 3 Tivo. I tried it out last night and it works well. I am a Rhapsody member, so I signed into my existing account on my Series 3 and my library of songs was available right away. Excellent feature. I would encourage you to try the free trial if you are not already a Rhapsody member...you'll get hooked.

I'm using it right now. I'm not sure what I think about this. The UI, in some areas, seems to be natively designed to support widescreen displays without annoying stretching artifact, other areas it looks like a 4:3 display stretched to fill the screen, except they didn't stretch the text, so it ends up in weird places on the screen.

The audio was working for me for about 5 minutes, but now I can't get any songs to load.

aus1ander, curious...are you using the trial membership or were you using an existing Rhapsody membership?

foxm said:

I would encourage you to try the free trial if you are not already a Rhapsody member...you'll get hooked.

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Actually, I've had a "Rhapsody to Go" account for a while. Rhapsody rocks! I've been using my Squeezebox to stream Rhapsody music to my family room, but it will be much easier to browse for tracks on a TV.

I tried it yesterday and it seemed to be a bit flakey. During a track it would suddenly jump to the next track. It was slow to work and it would take some time to load a track.

Today it was working about the same. It suddenly stopped working. When I select Rhapsody it comes back with please wait and then dies with application closed during read.

goodknight said:

I tried it yesterday and it seemed to be a bit flakey. During a track it would suddenly jump to the next track. It was slow to work and it would take some time to load a track.

Today it was working about the same. It suddenly stopped working. When I select Rhapsody it comes back with please wait and then dies with application closed during read.

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The concept is great but its a bit sluggish so far. Hopefully they will work out the kinks. Scrolling through my artists takes forever. (i have hundreds of artists so going A to Z is ridiculous 3 at a time). Sounds quality is good.

I have 9.1, but I looked for Rhapsody and didn't see it... is it under Music/Photos/Games, or is it somewhere else?

AgentMunroe said:

I have 9.1, but I looked for Rhapsody and didn't see it... is it under Music/Photos/Games, or is it somewhere else?

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Yes. Music/Photos/Games. It's being phased in to customers. I have it on one of my boxes but not the other two.

Ah - glad I wasn't missing something entirely. I shall wait patiently.

Does the Tivo give you access to all of the Rhapsody features such as Rhapsody Channels, custom channels, playlists, etc...?

Ok, why don't we all have Rhapsody with the 9.1 update?

Just noted on the Real/Rhapsody forum that had a server issue that they fixed a few days ago but any UI issues could be due to Tivo's "strict rules". A UI update is due in a month or two though so I'll hold ultimate judgment until then. Still, its better than nothing.

tdj_tx said:

Ok, why don't we all have Rhapsody with the 9.1 update?

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How long have you had 9.1? The reason I ask, is because it specifically states on the priority request page:

"Software version 9.1 and the Rhapsody application will be delivered in separate updates. Please allow up to 3 business days to receive the software update and an additional 3 business days to receive the Rhapsody application."

If you've had 9.1 for more than three days and you still don't have Rhapsody, I'm afraid I don't know what to tell you. I think it's possible that they delayed the whole rollout because of all the problems that people are having since 9.1. For example, I have two S3's, and I don't have 9.1 on either of them.

Were the service free it would be worth it... Since it is a pay service I don't think so... An should one decide to not pay after having done so a month or two then all the downloads become useless without an active account.