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Spotify abandonment, part 1
Jul. 11th, 2011 11:22 amThe once nice people at Spotify are making it make it hard for me to listen to music. I'm nearly out of my listening time allocation for the month, and we're not half way through yet, and I'm avoiding listening to things I like because I'm going to hit the five-plays-per-track limit.
So I'm trying alternatives. First it's we7.
It's a Flash thing that sits in a browser tab. I had to fiddle with my browser settings to make it work, but I'm probably unusually paranoid about that sort of thing. One problem with this is that I have to find the browser tab if I need to pause, or even just see the title of the current track.
They seem to have lots of choice - the first few things I looked for were all there with plenty of similar alternatives suggested too.
It's ad-supported: they stick an advert into the beginning of every track. That's quite a lot of adverts, but they're short. Annoyingly, it's just after the start of the song, so you get a couple of seconds of music, then an advert, then the song resumes. Yuck!
So I'm trying alternatives. First it's we7.
It's a Flash thing that sits in a browser tab. I had to fiddle with my browser settings to make it work, but I'm probably unusually paranoid about that sort of thing. One problem with this is that I have to find the browser tab if I need to pause, or even just see the title of the current track.
They seem to have lots of choice - the first few things I looked for were all there with plenty of similar alternatives suggested too.
It's ad-supported: they stick an advert into the beginning of every track. That's quite a lot of adverts, but they're short. Annoyingly, it's just after the start of the song, so you get a couple of seconds of music, then an advert, then the song resumes. Yuck!
