Peevity-Peeve

[annuin]

I wish so much that people who make websites, or who tart up their myspace pages (and $deity knows they're the foremost offenders in this case) would just refrain from inserting music into their pages.

Downloading isn't an issue, not since PreZ just got Verizon to up our FiOS bandwidth to 30Mbps... it's just that sometimes I'm browsing late at night, whilst listening to some music or playing a movie softly, and then all of a sudden there's this other obnoxious noise overlapping what I'm listening too, often MUCH louder than what I've already got on. With a sleeping husband and baby, I don't really need someone else's crappy loud music tastes forced on me at 3.14am.

So just don't, okay?

Comments

[pixie-nz.livejournal.com]

I hate that too! Sometimes the music just won't go away (although I think it's because of my crappy computer) and it drives me nuts.

[catdraco.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm so with you on that one. Makes me glad that my Linux installation won't play most of it, even when I want it to (Neopets games are so much better when they're silent).

[illiana-galean.livejournal.com]

Oh Gods I hate that! ESPECIALLY at 0'dark'30 when the house is quiet, or your bopping along to something appropriate and WOOSH! Scares me so bad sometimes I literally fall out of my chair.

[arianadii.livejournal.com]

It's a dumb choice because auto-play music causes me to leave a page immediately and never go back!

People even have scripts for myspace now that override your choice not to have the music play automatically. That's just rude.

[timsinister.livejournal.com]

Certainly don't use one myself. Grateful for anyone else who doesn't, and usually comment on it as well!

MySpace is becoming quite the online place, yes?

[ippagoggy.livejournal.com]

hey, I had nothing to do with that photo, I only made a comment cause I thought it was funny.
I had no hand in it whatsoever.
no need to jump to conclusions.
thanks.

[varjosusi.livejournal.com]

I wish it were possible to have your OWN music on your page not auto-play. I wouldn't mind having music on the page, if you had to go press the Play button to start it.