OK, given that there are a wide range of opinions about the various music services, I decided to sign up for them and find out what they all look like and are about.

My preliminary results are in the table on this site.

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Interface-wise, Rhapsody is the prettiest, but iTunes still wins in my mind for the most navigable. Pressplay's client's UI is over-tabbed and under organized, making it the big loser as far as I'm concerned.

Installation of Rhapsody and iTunes were easy. Pressplay's WMP installation failed after 5 minutes on my XP machine with plenty of: CPU, RAM, Disk.