[millstone]

Prime subscriber here. Cool beans. I found some of my favorites.

But I also found a lot of spammy crap. I searched for Smashing Pumpkins, and it's pages of "1979 [A Tribute to the Smashing Pumpkins]" or "Disarm [In The Style Of The Smashing Pumpkins]". It takes some work to figure out, no, they don't actually have them.

I'm reminded of Steve Jobs's line with the introduction of the iTMS:

"This number [of songs] could have easily been much higher, if we wanted to let in every song. But we realize record companies do a great service. They edit!"

Here's hoping they can grow their library, but in the meantime, please don't give me piss when I search for rain.

[talmand]

But I thought keeping record companies as the gatekeepers was bad?

I'd rather I decide for myself if I like a song or not and not a corporate business decision maker decide for me before I have a chance to hear it.

[ctdonath]

Same reason I prefer iBooks over Kindle: the store is sensibly curated, not polluted with vague resemblances, knock-offs, and (worst) proliferation of really bad OCR conversions.