My Napster To Go service now has competition, with RealNetworks announcing Rhapsody To Go. (I wish I had taken out trademark rights on the phrase "To Go," I promise my licensing terms would have been reasonable.) They're offering basically the same amount of songs for the same monthly subscription price on what appears to be the same players (they are also using the Janus DRM technology).

Will Napster survive the competition? I believe they can. But the one concern I've had with having all of this "virtual" music was that Napster might go under and my new music library would disappear. If that happens now, and Rhapsody lives on, I can just take my business there.