The other day I logged in to Rhapsody’s Online Player and found they had changed the interface. Initially I was excited because the new look was much cleaner but then I found certain functions I used to use were now missing. The Shuffle and Repeat buttons are gone! This means when I queue up a playlist, I have to listen to it from first song to last song. Or if I queue up a couple albums, they have to play in the order I added them. THIS IS RIDICULOUS! I want the songs to play out of order! If I wanted to listen to an entire album song after song, I’d put a vinyl record on my turntable! I contacted Rhapsody support and they have told me with this new version of the Rhapsody Online Player, the Shuffle Repeat buttons have been removed. They may add this functionality back in future releases. I simply cannot fathom how anyone could have okayed the removal of these functions! Perhaps I could see them doing it to cause people to upgrade to a paid subscription account, but I AM A PAYING SUBSCRIBER! Am I wrong to believe that you do not remove functionality from applications? You add to it but you don’t remove core functionality. And if they are going to remove something so integral I think they should refund our money or at least a portion of it. But that ain’t gonna happen. I am really disappointed.

And I thought I was the only one left that still owned vinyl 🙂
I love my Technics direct drive turntable but rarely use it these days.
I have a horrible record player– it emits this weird tone– I should invest in something good but I rarely ever listen to my vinyl anymore so I can’t justify it. (perhaps if I had a better player, I might)
My boss recommended something which sounds neat. A turntable that allows you to digitize your vinyl albums. I have many albums that never made it to CD because they’re either bootlegs, demos or rarities. It’d be nice to know I could keep those going forever.
I’ve seen USB Turntables:
http://www.amazon.com/Ion-TTUSB-Turntable-USB-Record/dp/B000BUEMOO