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Re: Surprise: People hate being forced to use Facebook

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Using any single artist as a barometer for library completeness is probably not a great metric.

I'm not saying it's something to rely on, but if the artist is: not American, not singing in English, not from the top hit lists, not from popular genre and published albums years ago... yet they get included in the library, that means the choice goes far beyond what you usually get to hear. And that's just a great thing, whether you like specific artist or not.

My point is just that both Rdio, Spotify, and all their competitors contain many bands that fit your criteria. And they also don't contain many of those. I'm simply saying you should do a wider survey of their libraries to get a better comparison.

Re: Surprise: People hate being forced to use Facebook

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Unfortunately some companies are in bed with Facebook and it seems it gives them more than the additional users. For example Spotify - still allows only Facebook signups. The first quote on signup page is of course >. I'm definitely one who spent additional time to look for an alternative. Edit: As parbo noticed, they actually do allow email+password signups again. I completely missed the link when checking.

Actually, it is now possible to sign up with only email. Not sure if it applies to all markets, but in the US you can.

Weird, I'm in the US and I don't see the email option anywhere on the signup page. Too bad.
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