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I am totally addicted to emusic. I have the old annual plan that works out to 90/$16 and a monthly second account at 90/$20.
They just added Luaka Bop which I bookmarked lots of stuff from. It's possible that they'll get EMI, which could change emusic significantly.
― a.b. (abanana), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link
four years pass...
A rant I ranted last weekend when drunk follows. I stand by it all, the user experience of this site goes from idiotic to idioticker ... but I still love the basic premise of emusic, so that's why I actually care a bit. Who dreams up these shit ideas anyways???
/rantstart
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I know most or all of these things have been said many many times before, but I'd just like to add my voice:
-- One should *not* be required to know that one should click a button labelled "+" to save for later. I do not want to "+" the album, I want to save it for later, so I'm looking for a part of the screen saying "save for later", or "remember" or "make note" or something synonymous. Not "+". There are swathes of blank grey space on every page now, so I do not buy that "+" was necessary for space considerations.
-- EVERYTHING IS TOO BIG except the actual information content on every page. This ties in with the "+" point.
-- Tying in with both points above, DO NOT HIDE THE MOST RELEVANT INFORMATION. If an album has 274 tracks, you not only ought to, but *MUST* SHOW ALL OF THEM RIGHT AWAY. No scrollbar, not a "more" link.
-- OK I can choose between seeing 24 and 48 albums on each page. WITH HUUUGE COVER GRAPHIX HURRAH! No. That is not what I want, and especially not in three columns. If it absolutely *has* to be limited, I want to see as a minimum of 500 albums on each page, in ONE column, and hold the covers, not interested in those. (Please remember that for many of us, ctrl+f is a mode of webreading.)
-- Do not violate Web navigation standards. In Opera, shift+click means "open in new tab". In Firefox, ctrl+click means "open in new tab". Emusic ignores all of this, and opens the link in the same tab. Yes, one can rightclick+"open in new tab", but that is not how I (for one) intuitively browse; you are violating universal usability contracts here. (To be "fair", I believe the previous version of Emusic violated them as well.)
-- The general rule to be remembered above all others: Redesigns, updates and revamps are, without exception, A BAD THING per se. I'll grant that sometimes they are necessary. There were quite a few things with Emusic it was necessary to redesign, update and/or revamp. The overlap between these things and the ones that have been worked on is zero.
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/rantend
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 1 December 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
you're not paranoid, but i don't think that's the motivation for the site changes.
they went from some costly framework for presenting the site to users to a nearly-free framework for presenting the site to users. the transition has been very rocky, and they apparently didn't do enough beta-testing or take other curative steps. it's gotten better, but there are still many bugs to be worked out. the change, as i understand it, was not motivated by any great decade in revenues or profits (emusic is still at about 400K subscribers, as it has been for a few years now), it was just a cost-saving measure that hasn't been handled well.
this is all from the emusic message boards. i agree with a lot of what anatol_merklich said, btw.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 3 December 2011 04:22 (twelve years ago) link