It's what's left of Rhapsody / listen dot com. It may have absorbed a couple other failed streaming music services as well. I think it exists independently of Spotify because hardware manufacturers find it a better partner than Spotify / Google Music / Apple Music. Deezer's the European equivalent.
many major reasons why I feel like societal collapse is possible, and though this is not one of them, it is still powerful enough to fill me with serious dread and despair. very important finding, andy.
this is the exact thing rendering every service unusable or at the very least unappealing, and indicates running out of places to exploit for growth and if that isnt a herald of collapse i dont know what is
Good news and bad news:
The good, you're apparently back in the year 2000, you have an opportunity to prevent 9/11
The bad, whatever you've tried so far hasn't worked
to be fair the fortune cookie has always been monetized, its not even really a chinese thing so much as senbei filtered through selling chinese and japanese food to early 1900s americans. It does feel real bad to see it bastardized into selling Napster instead of cutesy fortunes tho.