{"id":3011,"date":"2005-06-01T18:06:54","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T22:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/06\/01\/rhapsodys-incredible-shrinking-catal"},"modified":"2005-06-01T18:06:54","modified_gmt":"2005-06-01T22:06:54","slug":"rhapsodys-incredible-shrinking-catalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/06\/01\/rhapsodys-incredible-shrinking-catalog\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhapsody’s Incredible Shrinking Catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So I was quite pleased to see that Rhapsody had added M.I.A’s Arular<\/em>
\nrecently released by Universal.  They had previously released the
\nversion available from Beggar’s Banquet, but the tracklistings are a
\nlittle different.  I had been listening to the album for a few
\nweeks, when, today, I noticed that I can no longer play “URAQT”
\noff the Universal release, and that the single version is only
\navailable for sale and not for streaming.  Same goes for “Bucky
\nDone Gone”, though I can play it off the Beggar’s Banquet
\nrelease.  What gives?<\/p>\n

This is not entirely uncommon in Rhapsody.  For instance, The Streets’ A Grand Don’t Come for Free <\/em>was previously available for streaming as was Garbage’s new Bleed Like Me.  <\/em>Both are now for sale only.  <\/p>\n

It’s bad enough that the catalog lacks many albums that I
\nwant.  It’s bad enough when particular tracks on albums
\ncannot be streamed.  It’s far worse to pull those
\nsongs once I’ve already become accustomed to having access. 
\nRhapsody says I get access to over one million songs and growing, but
\napparently they can’t even guarantee me that the catalog won’t shrink
\nin the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I was quite pleased to see that Rhapsody had added M.I.A’s Arular recently released by Universal.  They had previously released the version available from Beggar’s Banquet, but the tracklistings are a little different.  I had been listening to the album for a few weeks, when, today, I noticed that I can no longer play “URAQT” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}