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Earbits seems really neat. I like the music it played and was excited to start using it. Once I realized that I needed a facebook account and that it would share what I listened to with my facebook friends it wasn't worth it to me. I really don't like the trend of requiring facebook to login to a website.

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Facebook required their music partners to eliminate their non-Facebook authentication systems for new users to be promoted in the Facebook ecosystem. It's not really up to the services themselves. Spotify had to do the same thing.

I work for Rhapsody and helped implement Facebook Music as an initial partner. We don't use Facebook login and have no plans to do so.

But you don't need an account. Most of the features that require one are FB oriented anyway.

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