As we reported a few days ago, you were able to download more music with the new napster beta 10.3. Well it seems like this is not completely true. Many users are saying that with new versions available, you are able to share fewer and fewer files. A comment from a napster user: "Napster allowed me to share about 160 of the nearly 700 MP3 files in my shared folders. Napster (version) 10.3 allowed me to share zero files, not more files".
A new move from napster is to shut down all users who use old versions of Napster. They were saying that they would do this late Wednesday night. I just tryed to log in with beta 9.6 and it still works. But I guess they will shut me down in just a matter of time.
 Napster is funneling people to a new version of the software that includes technology supposedly able to identify a song accurately using a digital representation of its sound. When it released the software last Friday night, the company touted it as a way to release many previously blocked songs back into its network. |
CNET News.com readers, however, report that almost no songs are getting through the network with the new software. A quick look at the Napster network gave access to about 1,600 songs--fewer than some MP3 lovers have on their own hard drives.
According to consulting firm Webnoize, which has tracked Napster usage over the past few months, the average Napster user was sharing just 1.5 files by Wednesday morning, as compared to about 220 files in February.
Also webnoise sees that the number of files keep dropping. The comment from Napster is that the filtering system has some bugs, and they are working on that. I think they must introduce the new subsciption based service very soon. Else Napster will become the latest dotcom failure
Source: C|net
