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4:01PM Angus Kidman | After Sanity launched its Australian Loadit music subscription service last month, there were muffled complaints about the price, but the biggest complaints of all came from users who didn’t want the Loadit button appearing in their Windows Media Player by default. The Loadit store is automatically added when you check for updates, and by the time you realise it has appeared, it’s a bit late to do anything about it. If you don’t want to have Loadit in your face every time you play a song or video clip, do you have any choice? Lifehacker explores your options.
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Removing The Sanity Loadit Store From Windows Media Player
4:01PM Angus Kidman | After Sanity launched its Australian Loadit music subscription service last month, there were muffled complaints about the price, but the biggest complaints of all came from users who didn’t want the Loadit button appearing in their Windows Media Player by default. The Loadit store is automatically added when you check for updates, and by the time you realise it has appeared, it’s a bit late to do anything about it. If you don’t want to have Loadit in your face every time you play a song or video clip, do you have any choice? Lifehacker explores your options.
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2:16PM Angus Kidman | Subscription music services have been slow to start in Australia, but seem to be gaining traction. A month after Sanity released its much-delayed LOADIT service, Vodafone has entered the fray with MusicStation, a subscription music service for mobile phones which claims to offer more than a million tracks. After insllating the MusicStation app, selected tracks are downloaded to your phone for local playback; if the phone memory fills up, your least-played tracks are automatically deleted. The service is a fair bit cheaper than Sanity’s rival service, costing $2.75 a week. There are no additional download charges, but you do already need to be a Vodafone customer, you can only access music in 3G areas, and you do need to be have one of the supported handsets (currently LG KU990 Viewty, Nokia 6121 classic, Nokia E65, Nokia N73, Nokia N95 8GB, Sony Ericsson C902, Sony Ericsson W880i, Sony Ericsson W890i, and the Nokia 6210 Navigator.) You’ll doubtless have noticed the absence of the iPhone from that list — despite Apple’s players being the standard in the music market, it’s apparently more or less impossible to get a commercial subscription scheme up and running on its devices. You could always try the Last.fm app, but that will chew through your download cap if you’re not on a Wi-Fi network.
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Vodafone MusicStation Offers Unlimited Music Downloads For $2.75 A Week
2:16PM Angus Kidman | Subscription music services have been slow to start in Australia, but seem to be gaining traction. A month after Sanity released its much-delayed LOADIT service, Vodafone has entered the fray with MusicStation, a subscription music service for mobile phones which claims to offer more than a million tracks. After insllating the MusicStation app, selected tracks are downloaded to your phone for local playback; if the phone memory fills up, your least-played tracks are automatically deleted. The service is a fair bit cheaper than Sanity’s rival service, costing $2.75 a week. There are no additional download charges, but you do already need to be a Vodafone customer, you can only access music in 3G areas, and you do need to be have one of the supported handsets (currently LG KU990 Viewty, Nokia 6121 classic, Nokia E65, Nokia N73, Nokia N95 8GB, Sony Ericsson C902, Sony Ericsson W880i, Sony Ericsson W890i, and the Nokia 6210 Navigator.) You’ll doubtless have noticed the absence of the iPhone from that list — despite Apple’s players being the standard in the music market, it’s apparently more or less impossible to get a commercial subscription scheme up and running on its devices. You could always try the Last.fm app, but that will chew through your download cap if you’re not on a Wi-Fi network.
[MusicStation]
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9:59AM Sarah Stokely | If you’re an infrequent user of sites like ebay or paypal, you probably make more use of the “I forgot my password, please email it to me” function than you should. I decided to take the simple step of creating a “subscription management” folder in my email client so I’d always have those details to hand.Now whenever I create an account on a website (which usually generates an email confirming my login details), I just drop the email into my subs management folder and it will be there next time I’m trying to remember my password. Requesting a new password usually generates a reminder email with your new login details – I keep those in my subs folder too.My subs management folder has a long list of subscriptions, ranging from Remember the Milk, Ticketek, YouTube and Wikipedia. Now they’re just a Thunderbird search away, which has been a real time saver. How do you remember all your online subscription details? More » 