File this under too-little too-late. The online music listening service Rhapsody is planning on offeirn off line listening soon. Sort of like how Slacker has been doing for almost a year already on the Blackberry for free. With Rhapsody you’ll need to have a subscription. That said you downloaded songs can be listened to and accessed from the device as long as the user is subscribed to Rhapsody’s service; once a user drops the subscription, the songs presumably become inoperative. Rhapsody’s planning on submitting it to the App Store “very soon.” Until it lands, users will have to be satisfied with the YouTube video and their existing app. This is certainly a step in the right direction for Rhapsody and great if you want to choose the songs you listen to. Or in this case, rent the songs you want to listen too.
