6 Reasons Why Spotify Sucks.

I started using Spotify a few weeks ago and found out it sucked pretty bad if you're a free user.

The six problems with Spotify are:

1: A faulty tagline of "All the music. All the time."

Without being able to play The Beatles you can't make that claim in my book. No Blink 182 either...I'm sure there are others.

2: Advertisements

I realize advertisements make the world go round, but do they have to cut into my tunes and play some obnoxious release of an artist's music clip I definitely don't want to listen to? Grooveshark does it right, making their ads unobtrusive. They sell premium memberships just like Spotify but you don't see them being greedy turds and disrupting my jam session.

3: A 15-20 second ad after playing only one song. One song!

4: Error Code 4

When you've been disconnected from the internet a link for Error Code 4 comes up. When you click, the link attmepts to take you to a help page on Spotify's website. Does this make any sense? I don't have internet, why would I be able to view online help?

5: Spam email
I receive an email "newsletter" from Spotify about the top songs of my area and at the bottom is an unsubscribe link. I click it and have to log into my account on their website only to find check boxes to subscribe for email and SMS text updates are unchecked. Thanks for the spam and no way to stop them from coming!

6: Free Spotify accounts for your friends
I've been logging in the past couple days and this message shows at the top of the program:
"You've been selected to get free Spotify accounts to give to your friends".
The account was free for me, and for everyone else (at least in the U.S. from what I can tell), and you don't have to be invited because it wasn't a limited release (even a fake one like google+ offered). Friends are over-rated and who really needs them when you can go to the website, enter your email, invite yourself, and download Spotify in a matter of minutes. No friend invited needed.

Contagion is Outbreak 2 in Disguise. Sequel!

As America gets dumber our friends at Warner Bros. Pictures decides to up the ante and use a word to title their movie a good 90% of the population has never heard before. I applaud them, at least someone is trying to teach the children of America some vocabulary.

Nonetheless, what ever happened to naming movies with simple self-explanatory names like:
The Net
Titanic
Bad Santa
The Sandlot
Jaws

As the description of the trailer on Youtube describes:

Contagion follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart.

Does the movie plot above almost exactly resemble another movie you've might have seen?

It seems a growing trend for studios to compete with each other to see who can be the least original with their pictures. Warner Bros. Pictures wins the gold medal for taking one of their old movies and getting away without actually naming it Outbreak 2. "Contagion" was apparently a better alternative than labeling it outright as a sequel. Who isn't sick of the sequel? How many times can you make a movie about a couple of horrible actors driving tricked out cars, or a boy with a spidy-like sense. Don't even get me started about Harry Potter. I'm sure I'm not the only one that's glad that crap is over until they remake it in ten years.

The movie "Outbreak" doesn't seem like it was in theaters not too long ago, even if it is 16 years in the past. Apparently Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, and Morgan Freeman brought in a pretty good profit for the studio for the remake to take place with an all-star cast of Matt Damon, Bryan Cranston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne, and Kate Winslet.


IMDB even goes as far as using outbreak in their storyline description:"An action-thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak."