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Description

Purchased Rhapsody Tracks

Tracks or albums that you purchase and download from the Music Guide appear in My Library as purchased tracks.
 

You own the rights to transfer and play the track on a portable player or device, or burn it to a CD. If you share these tracks, you are only sending the bookmark for the track in the Music Guide.
 

Purchased tracks are available when you sign in to your paid Rhapsody account from another computer, but they will appear as streamed(process of breaking a large audio or video file into smaller pieces and transferring it, piece by piece, so it can be viewed immediately rather than waiting for the whole file to be downloaded) subscription tracks in My Library. You can choose to re-download them to the new computer. You can download purchased tracks up to three times with no additional charge. (If you purchase a track with the Buy MP3 option, you will not be able to re-download the track, but you can copy the file as needed.)

Downloaded Rhapsody Tracks

Many Rhapsody tracks are available for download. When a Rhapsody track is downloaded, a music file is saved on your computer. The downloaded Rhapsody track can be played offline, shared online, and, with the appropriate membership, transferred to a compatible portable player or device. It cannot be burned to a CD unless you purchase it.

Note: You must have the appropriate Rhapsody membership to download and transfer Rhapsody tracks. Downloaded Rhapsody tracks are only available to users on Windows XP systems or later. Operating systems prior to XP cannot support downloaded Rhapsody tracks.

Not all downloaded Rhapsody tracks can be transferred to a portable player or device. Some artists and labels have not granted subscription transfer rights to their tracks. If you attempt to transfer a downloaded Rhapsody track that does not have transfer rights, the "Purchase" dialog will open.

Internet Downloads

These are tracks that you find and download outside of Rhapsody, then import to My Library.

Track Type

When and Where is it Downloaded?

Purchased Rhapsody Tracks

• Music Guide: Tracks are downloaded when you purchase directly from the Music Guide.
   
• Burn view of Display area: When you attempt to burn a track that you have not yet purchased, you will be prompted to purchase and download it.
   
• Transfer view of Display area: When you attempt to transfer a track that you have not yet purchased to a portable player or device, and you do not have the appropriate Rhapsody membership for downloading Rhapsody tracks, you will be prompted to purchase and download the track.
   
• My Account menu: You can choose to re-download purchased tracks to a new computer, or re-download tracks that downloaded improperly, from My Account > Manage My Account: Re-Download Tracks in the Rhapsody menus.

Downloaded Rhapsody Tracks

• Music Guide: If you have Download tracks to my hard drive... selected in My Library Preferences, available tracks will be downloaded to your hard drive when you add music to My Library.
• You can also choose the type of file you want to use in My Library Preferences, RAX or WMA. RAX(Secure RealAudio format) files are ready to transfer to your Rhapsody MP3 Player. WMA(Windows Media audio file: Microsoft Windows proprietary audio format) files are PlaysForSure compatible.
  
• Transfer View of Display area: When you attempt to transfer a track that you have not yet purchased to a portable device and you have a membershipthat supports download without purchase, the track will automatically be downloaded.
  
• My Library: You can manually download Rhapsody tracks in My Library. Select the streamed(process of breaking a large audio or video file into smaller pieces and transferring it, piece by piece, so it can be viewed immediately rather than waiting for the whole file to be downloaded) Rhapsody tracks you wish to download, and right-click them. From the menu, select Download Track(s).

Note: You must have the appropriate Rhapsody membership to download and transfer Rhapsody tracks. Downloaded Rhapsody tracks are only available to users on Windows XP systems or later. Operating systems prior to XP cannot support downloaded Rhapsody tracks.

Internet Download

• These music files are found and downloaded outside of Rhapsody.
   
• You can  find music and audio files all over the internet. Check the websites of your favorite bands and artists. They frequently offer music you can legally download. Many humor and entertainment sites have free tracks to download as well.
   
• Import non-Rhapsody downloads from File > Add Tracks to My Library in the Rhapsody menus.

Note: Tracks downloaded from anywhere other than Rhapsody cannot be shared through Rhapsody, and they will not be available in My Library if you sign in to your Rhapsody account from any other authorized computer.