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After Backlash, Spotify Adds Facebook 'Private Listening' Mode
In the wake of the Facebook-Spotify tie-up, have you found yourself censoring what songs you listen to on Spotify so your Facebook friends can't see? Now you can finally embrace your inner Selena Gomez. Spotify has added a "private listening" mode to counter complaints about the automatic sharing of playlists on Facebook. "We're rolling out a new client as we speak where you can temporarily hide your guilty pleasures.Rdio delivers free streaming music with no ads
Who needs Spotify ? Rdio intends to one-up its competitors today with the introduction of a free on-demand streaming music service that has no ads. There is a limit to Rdio’s free music, though, and a meter at the top of the site will keep track of how much of it you have left for the month. An Rdio representative explains the free music limit like this: “The amount of free a person will get is dynamic and will be based on their own personal use and displayed in a meter in the corner of their profile. A heavy user will get more, but probably not as much as they will want and a light user will get more than they’d ever want.”
Best New Mashups: Find the Lyrics, Instantly
What’s that song that begins “the night we met I knew I needed you so?” There are two new mashups that can help you find the answer to that–right now. Both use the MusixMatch API for lyrics search and present the results “instantly.” We wrote about APIs fueling the instant frenzy in September, shortly after Google Ajax-ified its search.