Erik Gulbrandsen, D.O.

Rhapsody released an update to their iPhone app yesterday and I'm quite happy. Supposedly it offers better sound quality and they report big fixes and better stability. I am not certain about the sound quality, but the program is enormously more stable. Also, searching is simply much faster.

The app was essentially useless where I live outside of wifi land because I don't get 3g out here. The program would search and search without displaying a result. Then, if you tried to open your own library, it would crash. If you got your qeue started on wifi, then you could play a song, but the program would often crash while playing. None of this happened over wifi or 3g, it was just miserable edge.

Those days are all gone. The app works quite well on edge. It may take a few seconds to boot up the initial song, but it plays and is stable.

What I'd like to see in a future release is offline playback, background playback, and the option to add songs playing from the rhapsody radio station directly to my library or playlist.

Thanks rhapsody, you have eliminated my zen.