"This is because you need a client to download the music," Scott said. They are currently restricted to streaming music only through their browsers, and will remain so for the near future. However, unlike Windows users, Mac and Linux subscribers will not be able to buy songs or transfer music to a portable player from the Rhapsody service. "There are other sites that stream music, but it's really hard to do it as well as we can, because of our large library," Scott said. Scott said that RealNetworks believes is the first major music-streaming site available to Linux users. We just can't guarantee it will work with all distributions." "We just haven't done a lot of testing on other distributions, but we know it will work on many of them. "We have done extensive testing on Linspire 5.0, Fedora Core 3.0, and SUSE 9.3, and we know that the plug-in works well on them," Scott added. Users running any flavor of Linux are now able to log into the service and download the Firefox plug-in necessary to stream the music data, spokeswoman Ronda Scott told. RealNetworks' new Rhapsody Web-based streaming music service went live on Monday, expanding its formerly Windows-only US music subscription service to include Linux and Macintosh users. Rhapsody now plays on Linux and Mac machinesÄocument.write(Math.round(Math.random()*10000000000)) " style="border:0 height: 90 width:728 "/>
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