Playing Rhapsody music from Windows on Linux

Todd Slater dontodd at gmail.com
Thu Jul 6 11:22:24 UTC 2006


On 7/6/06, Todd Slater <dontodd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Oops, apologies, it's actually the Roku SoundBridge that interfaces
with Rhapsody, not mt-daapd.

Todd




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