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Real Rhapsody iPhone app due to arrive soon
The Rhapsody streaming music service from RealNetworks may be coming to the iPhone soon, according to a post on the RealNetworks blog. The iPhone app is finished and being sent off to Apple for review this week. There's a video demo of the app, and it looks like a decent front end for the subscription-based service. An Android app is also in the works.The iPhone app isn't too flashy, but appears well-designed, offering all of Rhapysody's basic features, like searching and playlists. The app's best feature is a song queue that you can fill up and save as a playlist, which looks quite useful. There's also a music guide that shows current charts and what's new this week, and also allows you to browse by genre.
This is all good news for Rhapsody's 750,000+ subscribers, but I have to wonder whether an app that seemingly provides an alternative to Apple's own iTunes Music Store won't just be hit with one of Apple's notorious "duplicate functionality" rejections. Considering that the FCC is currently inquiring into a similar rejection of Google Voice, and that there are other streaming music apps on the store already - albeit free, and not with Rhapsody's extensive song library - it seems likely that Rhapsody will get a pass. Apple's been trying to clean up its review process, but the whole thing is still unpredictable, so this should be interesting to watch.
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Subscribe to commentsDrew GreenAug 24th 2009 9:24AM
I can't believe Apple hasn't already told Real to go f themselves on this one. Really? A subscription based music service app for the iPhone/iTouch? I'd hop on this in a second, as would thousands of others, I just hope that Apple allows it. Is this going to just be streaming music or am I finally going to be able to d/l subscription songs to my iTouch?
Jason VAug 24th 2009 10:17AM
My $12.00 a month would like this a lot. I use Rhapsody all the time at home and it would be great to use it on the go on my iPhone. :)
DAJAug 24th 2009 11:08AM
Spotify submitted their streaming music app 27 July and they have not had anything back from Apple yet -- well nothing they have went public on.
Might be a long wait for Real Rhapsody too