On today's edition of the NPR program "Day to Day", I speak with host Alex Chadwick about tomorrow's launch of Napster 2.0. The pre-release app was super-sweet and surprisingly stable, not entirely unlike iTunes, includes some goodies iTunes lacks, performs elegantly in Win environments, loved the massive catalog (found almost every obscure old-school hip-hop and dub track I wanted within seconds) but WMA + Win-DRM = ouch. Like a waiter serving you a hot, frothy, mouthwateringly delicious cappucino you've been craving all day — then, peeing in it. Link to "Day to Day" home, listen to the archived show here after 12PM Pacific.
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