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Don’t you just love embedded music on websites?
I’m not talking about music links here. I’m talking about music that starts playing as soon as you reach a webpage. It’s not just the unfathomably popular MySpace littered with aural pollution, but official sites for films, and chart bands as well.
Even one of my oft-visited favourites, the official BBC Doctor Who site, carries sound switched on by default every week during a series run, promoting the next upcoming episode. I have no choice but to have my ears assaulted and the music I’m listening to in iTunes mixed up with whatever low-bitrate soundtrack is streaming out of my speakers until I find the ’sound off’ link hidden somewhere on the page I’ve just loaded.
Do you have a pet peeve site that enforces sound onto you whenever you go near it? Do you know of even just one site where music-by-default actually works and enhances the experience of visiting it? No?
Grr. Why, in the names of all the gods, why?
Currently listening to: Everything But the Girl – Adapt or Die: Ten Years of Remixes – Five Fathoms [Ben Watt Edit]
