A sampling of new releases from Napster this week are as follows:

“Infinity On High”, Fall Out Boy
“A Weekend In The City”, Bloc Party
“NapsterLive”, Switchfoot
“Heaven”, John Legend
“Sugar Assault Me Now”, Pop Levi
“Fight The Power - Greatest Hits Live”, Public Enemy

You can listen to the above new releases at Napster by clicking here.

Whether you call them media players, jukeboxes, mp3 apps, music managers, or whatever - we all need a proggy to listen to our digital music with, so we decided it was time for the Online Music Blog ( http://www.onlinemusicblog.com ) media player shootout. For the sake of this article I am only going to discuss players you can get for free and I am not going to go into p2p apps.

So with that, lets dive right in. For my money there are are only 3 choices - Winamp, iTunes, or Windows Media Players - but I’ll talk a little about RealPlayer 10 as well. All of these applications share baseline features - playing various media files, cataloging digital media, etc. We’ll focus on things about them that are different. (more…)

Napster now allows users to listen to every track in their 2 million song catalog for up to 5 times for free. After the 5th free play of any single track, you can either purchase the track or become a Napster subscriber.

However, I use the free play time to determine what songs I like, CDs to buy, etc. The service is a great way to “Try before you Buy”.