Adelphi University in Garden City, New York is the latest school to offer students access to a legitimate digital music service at an extremely reduced rate. In this case, students who live on campus will get to play with the Rhapsody online music service from RealNetworks for free. Students who commute can subscribe to Rhapsody for two bucks a month, an 80% discount off the regular $9.95-a-month fee.
Subscribers can stream as much music as they want from Rhapsody's library of more than 790,000 full-length songs, create their own commercial-free Internet radio stations, listen to professional stations and browse music information and editorial recommendations. Any songs they want to keep and burn to CD or transfer to a portable media player cost 79 cents each to download.
"Providing quality education is unquestionably the university's top priority," Adelphi CIO Jack Chen said. "However, we at the same time also recognize that easy and low-cost access to online music is important to our students. With Rhapsody, our students will have a legal way to access a vast catalog of digital music."
The complete freedom doesn't last forever - only until May. After that, on-campus students will also have to shell out $2 a month for the Rhapsody service.
The University of California, Berkeley and the University of Minnesota offer Rhapsody to their students for $3 a month and 79 cents per downloaded track.
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