Rhapsody is available for your Windows Phone 7 device, download the Rhapsody app here. After Zune Pass and Rdio, this is the third music subscription service to become available on the Windows Phone 7 platform. While the app is free, the subscription service starts at $9.99 a month. At that price point you can download and stream music to one mobile device. Rhapsody also offers another level of service at $14.99 a month. This pricing tier, known as Rhapsody Premier Plus, is similar to Zune Pass in that it allows downloading and streaming to three mobile devices per month. Similar to Zune on Xbox, Rhapsody is available on other devices such as certain TiVo set top boxes and Vizio TVs.

Now with Rhapsody you can listen to the same catalog of 11 million subscription music tracks on an Android, Blackberry, iPhone, or Windows Phone 7 smartphone. With its addition of a Windows Phone 7 app, Rhapsody can be seen as completing the major mobile device ‘quadfecta.’ This music service goes up against other subscription services such as Rdio, MOG, and Spotify. These services provide a similar cross platform music subscription service, albeit with smaller music libraries. Some believe Zune should follow a similar cross platform track. Others wonder if Zune Pass could have more success with a similar hardware-agnostic plan. If Zune were to move to a cross-platform smartphone strategy (a.k.a. horizontally integrate), I believe the quality of Zune's music experience would suffer. Consider the functional difference between music playback on a Zune HD and Zune on Windows Phone 7. Either way, Rhapsody is the second service to move in on one of the selling points of a Windows Phone, what do you make of this news?

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