Only valid in the US.

Yes, perhaps Macworld should begin to add that info to articles such as this? US only. You have readers from all over, you know, so that way we didnʼt have to waste our oh so valuable time reading about stuff which has no influence on our lives and we can instead watch a good football game:) (Yes, yes, soccer - but it is football, fútbol, fotboll, fotball, fußball etc. in the rest of the world and the ball is played with the feet, hence the name=)

AS far as cleaning up the process of importing to itunes from a .zip, someone might be able to create an automator flow that can be assigned to a smart folder. WHen a new file is downloaded to a specific folder (if Raphsody lets you designate what folder it downloads to ) it would then decompress the file, import the tracks to itunes, run a CD artwork search (if not already included in the metadata) and then delete the zip that was downloaded (if the iTunes is configured in the preferences to move tracks to the Music folder). Heck, I think I might try making it myself (not that I use Raphsody mind you).

yeah ... free is nice

but the multiple stupid logins was a bit of a pain ... and ridiculous

Well, it's RealNetworks, so no big surprise if it sucks. I won't even bother.