Offline Listening Coming Soon To Rhapsody iPhone App
March 15, 2010
Rhapsody's iPhone app already provides subscribers (Rhapsody To Go subscription costs $15/month) with over 9 million full-length tracks that can be streamed over Wi-Fi, 3G, or Edge, but the company is looking to make their service more enjoyable and much more convenient with the ability to download songs to your iPhone or iPod touch, pending Apple's approval of course.
Rhapsody's recently released YouTube video shows the offline listening feature in action. It demonstrates how you will be able to download a single song or entire playlists to your device so you won't have to rely on finicky wireless signals. Downloaded songs and playlists will be highlighted with an orange color while streaming songs remain blue for easy navigation. Besides the obvious upside of not requiring a wireless signal, downloaded songs help preserve your device's battery life by a relatively large margin.
Rhapsody has stated that the update will be submitted to Apple for approval "very soon." When it will be available for download, however, remains to be seen.