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MySpace Disables Music Autoplay On Profiles

Posted by Dan Rodriguez on Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:03 pm

Web 2.Oh-no

myspace-music-logoMySpace has disabled music from autoplaying on its profiles, most likely to save money on bandwith by efficiently limiting streaming to users who request it. They also claim it will provide more accurate listening data, since the play counts will represent the people who actually wanted to listen the songs. But we’ll be nice and think that they did it to save us from your shitty deathcore band ear-fucking us before we can hit the pause button.

[Via TechCrunch]

 

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2 Comments For This Post

  1. Vince Neilstein Says:

    I noticed this. I’ll bet it’s also so they have to pay out less to the major labels via their recently signed MySpace Music deal.

  2. Stabitha C. Says:

    And here I was thinking it was part of how web content providers finally caught on that users don’t want sounds to automatically start playing when they open up a page. Y’know, web usability standards and all. No?

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