Interesting. I've been a subscriber since 2003 when it was called Rhapsody.
I miss the desktop client, though I certainly understand the modern software landscape. Napster/Rhapsody actually did a really cool thing when they moved from the desktop client model to the web/app model: In the client, you could rate songs with 1 - 5 stars. Their newer interface only has "heart" or no heart. Instead of just deleting all the users' rating data (which I think is the tech world default,) they automatically created playlists for each user, reflecting the songs they'd rated: "1 stars", "2 stars", and so on.
In truth, Rhapsody just acquired the name "Napster." If the acquisition were different, then maybe that data would have been destroyed.
I miss the desktop client, though I certainly understand the modern software landscape. Napster/Rhapsody actually did a really cool thing when they moved from the desktop client model to the web/app model: In the client, you could rate songs with 1 - 5 stars. Their newer interface only has "heart" or no heart. Instead of just deleting all the users' rating data (which I think is the tech world default,) they automatically created playlists for each user, reflecting the songs they'd rated: "1 stars", "2 stars", and so on.
In truth, Rhapsody just acquired the name "Napster." If the acquisition were different, then maybe that data would have been destroyed.