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 Originally Posted by HelloNNNewman
Currently no official Rhapsody app for WebOS.
EDIT: read cobakon's reply below since he is a Rhapsody user too...
BTW... there are always Pandora, Brightharbour, and ZumoDrive apps that let you stream your media. Pandora streams a lot of different stuff, and the other two allow you to upload your own media to listen to on your device whenever you like. 
Rhapsody to Go and Napster to Go both require compatible mp3 players that sync up with the service. You never own the songs, you just rent them, for as long as you pay the monthly service.
I have found a much better solution that works really well, and I have all my songs as mp3s that I can store on my computer and transfer to any mp3 device without DRM. I subscribe to Napster to Go, which lets me download unlimited numbers of DRM-protected WMA files. Then, I use a program called Tunebite to turn them into drm-free MP3s. What it does is, it plays the song on the computer, which it can do because I have the subscription. While it is playing the song, it also records the song, and saves it as an MP3, on my hard drive. It is kind of like zcorder, recording what is playing on the computer.
Here is the beauty thing: It can play the song at 2x the actual speed and record. Not only that, but it can play many songs at one time. With my quad core computer, I can record 10 songs at a time at 2x speed, and not tax the CPU. So, what happens is you get songs recording 20 times faster than it would take to play them one at a time.
I can therefore download 4 hours of songs and save them to MP3 in about 12 minutes.
I have been using Tunebite for about 5 years, and I keep expecting the record companies to shut it down, but they have never gone after it to my knowledge. Tunebite takes the position that it is the same as recording a movie from your cable channel to VHS for later viewing. Whether that would hold up or not, I don't know, but the bottom line is, I can use a legal subscription service with freely available software sold openly and make all the MP3s my heart desires. Then, I can transfer them to my Pre using USB, and not worry about things like Rhapsody to Go compatibility.
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