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A few questions from a (soon to be) new Mac user
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<blockquote data-quote="djames42" data-source="post: 397898" data-attributes="member: 13241"><p>Unfortunately, none of the subscription services work (completely) with the Mac, nor do the Creative players. Frankly, Creative's requirement that you use Windows Media Player (the most horrifically cluttered media tool I've ever used, to say nothing of its inclusion of ActiveX support making it horribly insecure) is the reason I went with an Archos video player (which supports mass storage device connectivity in addition to WMP, meaning it will connect to a non-Windows machine). I've read about a plug-in for iTunes that will allow you to transfer music to a Zen, but I don't know if that works for videos too.</p><p></p><p>Rhapsody has a web plug-in that allows you to use Safari or Firefox on a Mac (and apparently Firefox under Linux) to play music, but this (unfortunately) does not support the Rhapsody-to-go subscription service. I have no idea if Napster has provided similar functionality, but I've not heard anything that makes me think that they have.</p><p></p><p>If you want to run Napster's client software, you'll have to run it under Windows. Doing this with boot camp kind of defeats the purpose of buying a Mac in the first place, since you'll have to boot into Windows to play your music, but it's free. You can pick up <a href="http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/" target="_blank">Parallels</a> and run Windows in a window, which should work fine, but that'll cost about $80.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="djames42, post: 397898, member: 13241"] Unfortunately, none of the subscription services work (completely) with the Mac, nor do the Creative players. Frankly, Creative's requirement that you use Windows Media Player (the most horrifically cluttered media tool I've ever used, to say nothing of its inclusion of ActiveX support making it horribly insecure) is the reason I went with an Archos video player (which supports mass storage device connectivity in addition to WMP, meaning it will connect to a non-Windows machine). I've read about a plug-in for iTunes that will allow you to transfer music to a Zen, but I don't know if that works for videos too. Rhapsody has a web plug-in that allows you to use Safari or Firefox on a Mac (and apparently Firefox under Linux) to play music, but this (unfortunately) does not support the Rhapsody-to-go subscription service. I have no idea if Napster has provided similar functionality, but I've not heard anything that makes me think that they have. If you want to run Napster's client software, you'll have to run it under Windows. Doing this with boot camp kind of defeats the purpose of buying a Mac in the first place, since you'll have to boot into Windows to play your music, but it's free. You can pick up [URL="http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/"]Parallels[/URL] and run Windows in a window, which should work fine, but that'll cost about $80. [/QUOTE]
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