So I was checking out Urge as a potential replacement for Napster. I must say I love the interface of Urge, something I can't say for Napster. The recomendations and latest stuff seems more relevant to em as well despite the overall selection in music seeming pretty equivelant (froma  quick scan). Price is identical. They both integrate with WMP11, though Napster seems to only be integratd in the XP version. It hasn't shown up in WMP on Vista as of the last time I looked.

 

I'm not switching though. Two big reasons. 

 

The first is that Urge doesn't have a Media Center plugin yet. We use Napster on our MCE a lot, particularly for children's music.

 

The second is that some new music showed up on Napster today. I still can't really believe it.

 

Napster now has two Nurse With Wound and three Current 93 albums available. All some of their more recent stuff which is great since I have most of the back catalog for each of them. Perhaps they'll turn up on Urge, but if not I'm definitely sticking with Napster.

 

I'm surprised there wasn't a post at Durtro saying they were trying this out. Hopefully more of their catalog starts to show up here.  I expect with the way they release material in stages for their collector fan base that things show up online much later than they first become available. So don't expect to find Black Ships Ate the Sky here any time soon. Off to the record store with me I suppose.

 

The Nurse with Wound albums available are Salt Marie Celeste and Echo Poeme: Sequence No. 2. The current 93 albums are Halo, SixSixSix: SickSickSick, and Soft Black Stars.