It just got cheaper to legally burn music online.
Rhapsody on Thursday began offering its customers the opportunity to burn songs onto a CD for just 49 cents apiece (The price used to be 99 cents).
Rhapsody, which holds licenses from the big record labels, is available at listen.com and music.lycos.com.
Now, for the catches.
You can get the 49-cent songs only after you’ve subscribed to the service at $10 a month.
Also, that price is a promotion good only through March 31.
Most important, only about 116,000 of Rhapsody’s 282,000 tracks are available for burning.
The record labels haven’t given permission for the others.
At other services prices are about $1 a song, and are only available after you’ve paid an expensive membership.
And remember, you shouldn’t upload the songs to an online file-sharing service or otherwise distribute them because you don’t own the rights to do so.
