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Napster subscription tracks will not work once their license expires. They were licensed using the Napster DRM servers, which have been shut off, so once the licenses for those tracks expire the tracks will become unplayable.

David, so are you saying that all the music that I have stored on my mp3 that the license through napster is now unrecoverable becasue the license lapsed? Please tell me someone did not think about this being a problem for Napster customers whose accounts were taken over by Rhapsody... I have a good deal of time invested in buiding this library and someone is going to pay for it if I have not rebuild this again..... Very pissed currently

So I've just lost everything I've paid $14.95 a month for 5 years? And I'm expected to spend the hundreds of hours attempting to use this painfully slow application to attempt to rebuild my music library... but only partially because Rhapsody only has a fraction of the songs I had from Napster? ARGHHH!!!

Same thing tonarrell. I think Napster users fell victims to corporate takeover. Which means we got screwed.

I have been experiencing the exact same problems - BUT!!!! I actually followed Rhapsody's instructions, and now everything works fine!
Sign in to your Rhapsody account.
On the Rhapsody main screen, near the top there is a box that reads:
"Napster friends - have questions? We have answers."
Click on the "GO" button. Click on "learn more" beneath the section about mp3 players. You will be instructed to "format" or "initialize" your device - depending on which brand it is. I have a Sony Walkman, and had to "format". I had it unplugged from my pc when I did this.
This essentially wipes the memory clear on your device.
Then, plug your device back in, and sign in, or sync up again on Rhapsody. Click on "My Library", and you should see all the songs you previously had downloaded from Napster. I was quite suprised to see this!
Now it is a matter of selecting which songs you want to download again. I first tried downloading 10 - 20 songs at a time, but that didn't seem to work so well - seemed like the "flow" was erratic. I eventually did about 3 - 5 at a time, and that seemed to work better. The one thing I did find, was that quite a number of songs I had from Napster are not AVAILABLE on Rhapsody without paying for them. Oh well, maybe that will change.....
I had nearly 700 songs with Napster, and now I have about 300 or so. It's kind of a slow process, so don't get frustrated!
Good luck - hope I've made this clear enough to understand. I too have been VERY frustrated with Rhapsody, but at least now I have my music back, until something better comes along.....

I, personally, can't believe Napster left all their loyal customers out to dry... we're pretty much SOL as far as our libraries, paid for downloads, all of it! Severely disappointed in Napster and even more so of Rhapsody since they had made NO effort to maintain Napster customers', NOW... FORCEFULLY NEW customers, music libraries and downloads as they were and honor the music we collected for years! To make matters worse... I haven't found anything to replace Napster... so, anyone have any good leads on a different music source, please let me know. I guess for the time being, I'll just go back to d/l from less reputable sites and ripping my cd's to my HD... Thanks Napster! And thank you Rhapsody for your lack of appreciation for your unwilling Napster ex-customers!

I too came over from Napster, I am completely disgusted with Rhapsody after only a couple of days of trying to recoup my music. I didn't lose any mp3s, however the playback rate and complications of down loading play lists is frustrating. I am sick of the "preparing to down load" message that appears when attempting to down load playlist. I opened an account with MOG tonight, it's not quite what Napster was, but it is a great improvement compared to crapsody. I used the free trial for about thirty minutes and decided to activate (pay) for an account. I just hope that I can get some of my money back from Rhapsody as I paid the annual fee vs the monthly fee. I will be cancelling (during business hours) on Monday.

I am using a DROID X if it matters to anybody.