Rhapsody DNA White Paper Now Available

Over the last few weeks there's been a lot of Rhapsody news. Sonos and SanDisk announced several completely new products that will set new industry standards. We've just released a ground-breaking new version of the Rhapsody jukebox. Rhapsody Online has now gone live with an entirely new set of features and capabilities. All of these products and services were constructed using Rhapsody DNA: We've cranked on the lights in the Rhapsody network.

This white paper provides an overview of Rhapsody DNA, the music software platform that enables integration of the award-winning Rhapsody experience directly into hardware, software and the Web.

Rhapsody DNA is an extension to Rhapsody that provides the entire technology stack needed for a Rhapsody-branded consumer facing experience. Rhapsody DNA provides the consumer with secure, personalized end-to-end hardware, software and browser access to music and music assets.

Rhapsody DNA delivers unlimited and dynamic music content from connected and off-line home entertainment systems, portable music devices, mobile phones, Web and software applications. It redefines the consumer digital music experience by creating ubiquitous, personalized and interoperable music access from any device.

Rhapsody DNA provides developers, OEMs and device partners a world-class standards-based platform that can be used to directly compete or coexist with other end-to-end music platforms.

This white paper serves as an introduction to the Rhapsody DNA SDKs. Look for updates to this white paper as we introduce individual SDKs and as we add additional APIs, features and capabilities.

We welcome your feedback and invite you to join our forums, participate in our blogs and develop with Rhapsody DNA.

Make Music Happen

Ben Rotholtz
General Manager, Web Services & Syndication

Comments

[Joseph Kilada]

This Rhapsody DNA news is really exciting...when will the SDK be available? I have been developing an application which integrates with Rhapsody for over a year, but it has been extremely difficult since up until now there hasn't a flexible direct API (though some of the web services have been helpful). I was originally building this app for another music service but switched to Rhapsody because I felt that you would provide better support for application developers. But I never expected this much in the way of SDKs, etc. so quickly. I'm really looking forward to using Rhapsody DNA as soon as it's available! I think this will really give Rhapsody the edge in becoming the dominant music service, as long as you don't distance yourselves too much from the Plays For Sure platform which provides many benefits, despite its issues. I think you can and should provide a seamless experience and highly integrated devices without breaking away from PFS.