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At first I have to admit I wasn’t overly impressed, listening to a couple of tracks from the web site only played the usual short snippet, not exactly what I’d call useful. However, where I’d normally walk away at this point I decided to register this time, after all, I can’t imagine John raving over thirty second music clips.
Registration was painless enough, but I was instructed to download and install some software before finishing. I live in constant fear of DRM being installed on my machine (and debacles such as the Sony/BMG farce don’t really help my confidence here – in fact the only MP3s I have ever purchased were from WARP ( http://www.bleep.com ) who keep their tracks DRM free. As they say, “we like to treat our customers as customers, not criminals”), anyway, the software claimed to be under the GNU licence (meaning that everyone is free to inspect the source code) so I figured it shouldn’t be up to anything underhand and continued with the installation.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I’m now able to listen to full tracks (full albums) for free, and despite the occasional interruption the quality is plenty good enough for me.
Navigation around the site and locating tracks to play will take a little getting used to (I’m being kind here), but otherwise my first hour of testing seems to show this is indeed a good site and well worth registering with.
I’ll let you know if my opinion changes.
Oh yes, thanks John!
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