asdti wrote: > Me too.:( > > I have over a year's Last FM subscription pre-paid. > > At least they say I can claim a refund (we'll have to see how quickly > THAT happens...) > > FWIW - just as an alternative suggestion for ex Last FM subscribers - I > still have a Napster/Rhapsody subscription which still has many of the > same features, although its a bit dearer. Now if Napster disappeared > that really would be the end of Squeezebox for me. > I never really understood the appeal of Spotify (I have both but never > use it). To me it seems twice the price for less (yes I know stream is > better quality but I honestly can't hear the difference and the cover > art on Spotify is dreadfully pixelated.
By sheer luck, my Last.fm subscription is just about to expire. Sadly, it won't now be renewed. It probably took up the majority of my Squeezebox listening hours as I loved to put a custom station on, based on a favourite artist or a genre. I've got Napster too (wonder how long that will last?) but it really is a different kind of service despite having some areas where functionality is similar (themed radio stations). Clearly, this is all happening because the music industry jacked up the cost of streaming. Well, they really shot themselves in the foot if my own personal music listening is anything to go by as I discovered a lot of new music by first hearing a track/artist through Last.fm .. then added the album to my Napster Library to check out in more detail .. and if I really liked it would buy the mp3 downloads or CD. It was a really well-integrated chain of music discovery and purchase. The fatcats in the record companies seem to want to wipe out as much online streaming as possible - or at least make it as expensive as just buying the music outright for the end user. Utterly short sighted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29669 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101226 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
