Rhapsody on N800
 

Few tips on how to get Rhapsody on your N800 (for non US).

Firstly if you download Rhapsody from the Nokia repo it does not check your location and you get an unlimited 30 day trial. What to do after that?

Rhapsody does a "free 25" account which allows 25 tracks to be played free of charge a month. for this account you only need to enter an email and a password, no US address or banking details needed.

The first problem is Rhapsody uses ISP location checking to ensure your in the US, if your not and you click new account you just get "we have detected your outside the US".

Using USproxies you can "fool" Rhapsody into thinking your in the US http://www.usproxies.net/

Its a bit hit and miss, few refresh's needed and make sure the right boxes are ticked and unticked as you want to allow cookies and everything (we are only interested in hiding our no US ISP here).

Once you have your account you can enter it into your N800 as a new account, if your 30 day trial has ended you can click "merge accounts" if not keep them separate until the trial ends.

25 tracks a month is not a lot I know but for the occasional track you don't have, research or just to bring back the odd memory its better than nothing. A US bank account is needed for any of the upgraded account that need funding.

Hope this helps. :D

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hmmmm hang-0n.

Even though I can play the 25 free songs via the application you download on your home PC, when i awith accounts on the N800 to the free 25 account it starts to buffer then says "login failed".

I really don't know why i can login on a PC but not on the N800?

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Different account types.

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I haven't a problem with mine. Works great and I can listen to songs i haven't heard in years and not availible in stores.

Only problem, there are duplicates and you have to find what groups are what you want. Also, I am trying to find Bob Seger for a co-worker and is not showing up. :confused:

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Hrm. So you've been able to get your N800 to work with an existing Rhapsody account? I can't seem to manage that. Instead, I always get a login failure message.

If you have a moment, could you answer a question: When you merged your trial account with your "free 25" account, did the trial account disappear from the Accounts window?

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Is your account a "free 25" account or a paid account or the 30 days trial?

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Ah, so you're seeing the same problem I am.

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Does anyone know how I can remove the Rhapsody link from the main application menu ? It's annoying.

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Could you please expand on that?

Do you mean that if I purchase an Unlimited account for use with the Rhapsody application for Windows and/or Rhapsody Online, I can't use that same account with my N800? I'd need a separate Unlimited account?

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Want a little tip for unlimited free music on the N800?

Once the free trial has ended just set the N800 date back and your trial is active once more, its like computing 20 years ago setting a date back to keep a trial active!

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I wonder if any from Real Networks are looking at this thread. :D

Some years have identical calenders so really just pick a calender that matches and you are set.

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30 days free.

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Hope not but they are bound to catch on anyhow.

I don't get what you mean??, all you have to do is set the date back to any date during the original 30 days and it tells you your still in your trial period (and whats more logs into your account!). If you started your trial on 1 July (its expired now), set the N800 to 15th July and it says 15 days left!

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Your Rhapsody Unlimited account that you purchased anywhere will work on your N800. The Rhapsody to go account will also work, though you can't use the to go features on the N800.

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Strange, my free account (free 25) has started working with Rhapsody today?

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It was just a thought that maybe they only used the end date and went from there to determine how many days left. If that was the case, you can go back and search thru almanacs and find an identical year and all that is different is just the year. But I guess from what you are saying, its the range that matters.

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You know what. It's a great service. I call it a service 'cause it's ported to my N800. You're talking 10 and change per month for millions of songs. Less than a CD, better than a Netflix type subscription (Rhapsody is on demand, Netflix demands the post office). I'll pay that any day. Oh yeah, and I don't have to F* up my date settings :)

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Agreed, wish I could do the same but as its US only and I'm in the UK I have to........

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Just installed the 30 day Rhapsody trial. Slick as snot. Wish there was a way to download the songs to the n800, though, as even on my home G network I get occasional skipping. I'm guessing that it would be way too data intensive for BT DUN to my Treo over the Sprint Power Vision network.

This makes me want to buy a dedicated Rhapsody player that will allow downloads.

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Just an update, the free 25 account works a treat with the N800

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On my PC, when I signed up for the free 25/month, it installed a streaming application. What does it do on the n800? Does it let you download to the device? Did you use the MicroB browser?

While it lasts, the unlimited 30 day trial can't be beat.

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Holy cow! I hit reply to ask how you got Free 25 working, and then tried Rhapsody again just confirm the wording of the error message that has blocked me for months. Unbelievably though, I didn't get an authentication error this time. Rhapsody actually works!

I sure as heck haven't changed anything with my Rhapsody account configuration on my N800 or otherwise, and my network hasn't changed. Therefore, I can only conclude that you, kdos1uk, are a mystical being of great power and have blessed my Internet tablet.

Thank you!

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You can't download to the device. That only works for specific Rhapsody To Go devices, and the Sansa mp3 player I got specifically for that purpose ceased functioning about a week later, so it isn't necessarily worth it.

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After the 30 day trial go to accounts and put your free 25 details in and you will be able to use your 25 track allowance on your N800. If your in the US you can add a paid account, I'm not so am limited to my free25 account which in itself was hard to set up (see earlier post) as they detect your worldwide location.

Hey cool, I try my best... but to be honest, once in a while I do get "account login failure" and if you get that you have to givin for the day.

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Wow! This is great. When it first came out it didn't seem to work, but now I'm at work and in just two minutes (and a re-start of my N800) I am listening to Jerry Jeff Walker "London Homesick Blues"! Amazing. I love this thing!