{"id":286,"date":"2007-01-22T23:54:09","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T04:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/2007\/01\/22\/free-college-music-service\/"},"modified":"2020-05-07T23:54:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T04:54:59","slug":"free-college-music-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/2007\/01\/22\/free-college-music-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Free College Music Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking to score some free music without having the RIAA on your behind?\u00c2\u00a0 Then check out Ruckus Networks,\u00c2\u00a0 operators of the Ruckus digital music network designed for college students.\u00c2\u00a0 Beginning today, Ruckus is offering up its service for free to all U.S. students with a valid .edu email address. Previously Ruckus had only been accessible by students at schools who had contractual agreements with Ruckus to provide music to their students.
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Students can begin signing up for the service starting right now, and by doing so they will have access to free music from a library of over 2.1 million tracks, as well as a number of social networking features.\u00c2\u00a0 Users can set up and maintain profiles, participate in discussion boards, and create playlists of their favorite music.\u00c2\u00a0 According to Ruckus, several hundred thousand students have joined the service since its launch, and by opening it up to all U.S. college students they now expect their membership to increase exponentially.\u00c2\u00a0 Prior to today, Ruckus had agreements to provide the service to more than 100 schools across the country.\u00c2\u00a0 Schools that have agreements with Ruckus already will enjoy such perks as faster downloads which are enabled by local network facilities and access to video content as well as the music content.<\/p>\n

“Free and legal digital music has just become broadly available to the most active and engaged music consumer group on the planet,” said Michael Bebel, Ruckus President and CEO, in a statement. <\/span><\/p>\n

“This is a major milestone for Ruckus, but much more importantly, for the growing community of college and university students and faculty we have been interacting with for the past three years. We look forward to providing the same great user experience with an incredible library of content, to an even greater number of users nationwide.”<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve not yet tried out this service, but it does sound intriguing.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I’ll give it a go this week and check back in with details on my experiences.\u00c2\u00a0 It sounds pretty good, but I am somewhat skeptical of ad-supported services such as this.\u00c2\u00a0 As long as the ads are not obnoxiously obtrusive, then I’m okay with it.\u00c2\u00a0 If any of you have used this service before, or attend a school that subscribes to Ruckus, do you have any information or tips that you can share with us?\u00c2\u00a0 I’m sure we’d all love to hear it!<\/p>\n


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Looking to score some free music without having the RIAA on your behind?\u00c2\u00a0 Then check out Ruckus Networks,\u00c2\u00a0 operators of the Ruckus digital music network designed for college students.\u00c2\u00a0 Beginning today, Ruckus is offering up its service for free to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}