Pandora

[kane_magus]

One thing I don't like about Pandora is that you get to skip only 6 songs per hour (and only 12 songs total per day if you're a free user like me) by clicking the "thumbs down" or "I'm tired of this song" things. After that, it just continues to play the song regardless. I don't get why they even bother having this limit anyway. (They claim it's due to licensing agreements in the FAQ or some such.) If it starts playing a song that I don't like, I will thumb it down or whatever, and if the site doesn't then automatically skip the song, I will simply reload the page, which essentially does the same thing anyway, which makes the limit pointless anyway (and likely adds a tiny bit of load to their website that they wouldn't otherwise have, on top of that).

(Another thing I don't like is the 40 hours per month limit for free users, since I'm already down to just 12 hours left which is less than two full work days, but at least I can definitely see why they would do that. It certainly doesn't seem like I've been using it that much, but I guess I have been using it pretty much non-stop at work since last week or so. *shrug*)

Comments

[alessar.livejournal.com]

Just blame the RIAA and the people who let draconian webcast royalty rates go through.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

The RIAA can probably be safely blamed for 95% or more of what is wrong with music these days.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

I can't really comment on Pandora. I was only able to listen to all of 3, maybe 4 songs before it refused to play anything else due to me not being an american. And no, I'm not going to be screwing around with proxies and shit to make it think I'm in the states.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

That also has to do with licensing and legal crap, according to their FAQ (http://blog.pandora.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=international&IncludeBlogs=25), so the RIAA can probably be at least partially blamed for that as well.