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Rhapsody announced today that it won’t require its users to use special software to access the service, since they’re launching a Web-based interface. Any PC/Mac/Linux user can point his browser to ‘rhapsody.com’ and, according to Red Herring, stream up to 25 songs per session, for free (song downloads are not available for now).

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AOL bought Circuit City’s MusicNow digital music service for less than $25M according to insiders.

The service, with a catalog of more than 1M songs, will be rebranded as “AOL Music Now” and will offer $.99 tracks for purchase and a $10/month subscription plan which goes up to $15/month (a la Napster, Rhapsody, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, [...]