Playing Rhapsody music from Windows on Linux

[Todd Slater]

On 7/4/06, Anthony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at earthlink.net> wrote:
> A friend of mine that I am trying to convert to Ubuntu from Windows XP
> has been using the Rhapsody music download service from Real Networks.
> (Please no preaching to the choir - I've been working on getting her off
> DRMed music already.)  Even if she stops now though, she already has $50
> worth of music downloaded.  They are in the .RAX secure encrypted Real
> audio format.  I think if I am going to be able to convince her, I am
> going to have to find a way for her to play those files, because $50
> would be a significant loss.  Has anyone done this?  Any suggestions on
> how to make these playable in Linux appreciated.

I just set up mt-daapd (now Firefly Media Server) to stream audio over
my home network a la iTunes and read that it (mt-daapd) supports
Rhapsody.

Todd