{"id":13,"date":"2006-01-03T18:24:08","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=13"},"modified":"2010-09-30T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T15:10:58","slug":"pure-rhapsody-or-pure-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/pure-rhapsody-or-pure-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure “Rhapsody” – or pure pain?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just finished the whole “Real Network great music online” Rhapsody trial – and am sooooo disappointed. For a company that claims to make music simple to listen to , this was such a pain!<\/p>\n

First – the software install – they want to try to get you to sign up for free services- and it is my job to read all the fine print and uncheck their gazillion check boxes so as not to commit myself to kingdom come.<\/p>\n

Then, after a couple of reboots, the software cannot log me in – and the help page does not work (“Page temporarily unavaiable” – sound familiar?)<\/p>\n

And then, to discontinuethe trial subscription, I have to enter details on another website, and then call and explain to someone , who has more questions, why I want to do so…. GAH!<\/p>\n

So for those who want to try this on casually, a stern word of warning – DON’T!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just finished the whole “Real Network great music online” Rhapsody trial – and am sooooo disappointed. For a company that claims to make music simple to listen to , this was such a pain! First – the software install – they want to try to get you to sign up for free services- and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-and-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}