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Napster is a legal music service that gives you on-demand access to hundreds of thousands of tracks and the best ways to enjoy, discover and share music for only CDN$9.95 a month
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Improve your music collection by hundreds of thousands of tracks.
Napster subscribers can listen to and collect full-length, high-quality tracks online and offline. Listen online at home or at work to an unlimited amount of tracks on-demand from the Napster music catalog. You can also collect as many tracks as you want on the hard drives of up to 3 PC computers to listen offline and save bandwidth while you surf the Web. Enjoy these tracks as long as you are a Napster subscriber. If you have a laptop, you can take these tracks wherever you go.

Easily find and discover music.
You can easily search and browse through Napster's music catalog by artist, track, album and member name. If you like a track or album, Napster will recommend other similar artists. You also have the ability to search for music within your own Napster Music Library. Listen to tracks at the top of the Napster Charts and add favorites to your library. Also find and add your favorites from the 1950s to today using interactive Billboard Charts organized by genre, year and season.

Napster Radio is the ideal way to enjoy and discover music.
Tune into interactive commercial-free radio stations. Listen to your old favorites and discover music that you've never heard before. Napster can also instantly build you a custom station based on tracks that you've collected in your Napster Music Library. With Napster Radio, you can see what track is coming next and skip forward or jump back. If you like a song you hear, you can add it to your Napster Music Library with one click.

Connect with other fans to discover the most music.
Find new music by looking at what other subscribers are listening to in real time. Subscribers can choose to participate in the Napster community by allowing other subscribers to view their music collections in their Napster Library. Have an obscure, favorite song? See who else likes it and check out what else they listen to. You can browse through other subscribers' music collections, copy their playlists to your library and save their names to keep track of what they are collecting. It's also easy to share music through your own Napster "Inbox," which gives you the ability to send track and playlist recommendations to friends inside or outside of Napster.

Build and organize your entire music collection.
With Napster, it's simple to create a Napster Music Library with custom playlists of your favorite tracks and albums on Napster. You can also mix and match music you've collected on Napster with other music files in your personal collection. You can rip CDs and import non-secure WMA and MP3 music files that you already own and add them to your Napster Music Library. Organize your entire music collection on Napster.

Control access to explicit materials.
You can exclude songs containing explicit content from your search results so that you or your children will not be able to access them.

subscribers get the best deals on music.
You can burn songs to CD or transfer them to a portable device for CDN$1.19 a track or starting at CDN$9.95 an album. Subscribers can save up over 15% (as low as CDN$0.83) when they buy multiple tracks at one time.
Napster light

Just want to buy tracks and albums to burn to CD or transfer to a portable device?
Use Napster Light to search and browse 30-second clips within Napster's music catalog of hundreds of thousands of songs for FREE. Buy tracks for CDN$1.19 and albums and Napster Custom Compilations starting at CDN$9.95.

With Napster Light, you can play and rip CDs, import your non-secure WMA and MP3 files and use Napster to organize your entire music library. You can also search the Billboard or Napster Charts as well as send song and playlist recommendations to your friends and family using your Napster Inbox.

When you register for Napster Light, you also get a chance to sign up for a free 7-day trial subscription to Napster.
Click here for a quick look at Napster Light's features.
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Cost:
• CDN$9.95 a month
• Free 7-day trial
• Subscribers save over 15% (as low as CDN$1) when they purchase multiple tracks at the same time

Type of Service:
• Month-by-month subscription
• No contract

Listening Options:
• Listen to hundreds of thousands of full-length songs on-demand
• Collect songs to your hard drive to listen to offline
• Purchase tracks to burn to CD, transfer to a portable device or listen on your PC

Radio:
• Commercial-free Napster Radio stations
• Build custom stations
• Preview songs in playlist
• Fast-forward and jump back to songs
• Save songs to your Napster Library

Music Discovery and Sharing:
• Browse other subscribers' music collections
• Copy other subscribers' tracks and playlists
• Save subscribers' member names to track their music collections
• See what all of Napster is listening to in real time
• Send track and playlist recommendations to friends inside and outside of Napster using your Napster Inbox
• Post your music opinions on the Message Boards

Home Entertainment Options:
• Direct connection into Stereo Tuner
• USB connection to Stereo Tuner
• Wireless connection to Stereo Tuner

Amount of music:
• Hundreds of thousands of tracks
• New music added every week

Exclusives:
• Napster custom compilations
• Exclusive tracks
• NapsterLive recordings

Music Information:
• Billboard Charts
• Napster Charts
• Napster's Fuzz online magazine

Music Library Functions:
• Create custom playlists
• Listen to your CDs with Napster
• Import your non-secure WMA and MP3 files into your Napster Library
• Rip CDs and import tracks into your Napster Library
• Organize your entire music collection on Napster

Compatible Players:
• Over 60 different devices including the Samsung Napster Player, Rio Chiba and the Dell Digital Jukebox.

Label Maker:
• Napster CD Label Creator