Spotify abandonment, part 2

(Why am I doing this?)

So I've been using we7 on and off for over a week. It's not been bad. The adverts were less intrusive than I'd expected, and usually less annoyingly inserted than I first thought. But it's a bit cack having a music player inside a web browser tab - too much fiddling about to find the tab and do stuff with it. A native music app sitting in the background but is easier to interact with.

So I was quite hopeful to read that mflow has a downloadable app. Except that I can't find one, so not I have another music player in a browser tab.

It's completely blank if you have javascript switched off. Sigh.

They want you to think of a song like a facebook/twitter update, which is peculiar. This is called a "flow". The content seems to be reasonably broad, but that only means that they have the three things I've searched for so far.

They let you play without signing up, which is nice, but between songs you have to cancel a nag screen for signing up.

The business model seems to be to encourage you to buy some of the things you hear, so there are no adverts. If people buy things you have recommended, you get a percentage credited, but only to spend on buying songs. But no ads is good ads.

Edits:

• There's no "similar artists" feature, which is somewhat sub-optimal.
• You can't find out more about a song before you listen - when you click on it, it starts playing, which is somewhat sub-optimal.
• You can't queue songs, which is somewhat sub-optimal.
• When you chosen song finishes, it wants to play the next song by that artist (for some value of "next"), which is nice
• When you've listened to a song once, you can't get more than 30 seconds of it for future plays. That makes the business model clearer - play once for free and then buy, which is somewhat sub-optimal.
• But wait - the next day the 30 second restriction seems to have expired. Hmm...