Also like the main Android version, there's a so-called CD Listening Party feature that opens up free, complete albums, with selections changing weekly. (Naturally, you can also use the app to listen to your own MP3s stored locally on the device, but you probably gathered that.) Play will be available as a free, ad-supported app, though you can also get an advert-free version for 99 cents.

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Our typical netbook routine -- writing this review in Microsoft Word, running Firefox with a handful of tabs open and listening to the new Weepies CD in iTunes -- felt faster than usual.

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But whenever I experience his music, whether in front of an orchestra, or listening to the radio or a CD, I'm always transported back to that time when a little 12-year-old violinist was transformed by the power of Brahms.

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One Saturday I sat alone on the floor in our tiny apartment, piecing a quilt, when the CD changer switched to a Mos Def album that Adam had been listening to a few days before.

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