Digital Home Thoughts: Subscription Music from MOG

"MOG has been teasing the service with videos for a couple of months now, and the latest demonstration video looks pretty appealing. Fast search will show results as you type, and you'll be able to create and save playlists, which will then appear in other users' search results (for instance, if you create an all-shoegaze playlist, it should show up when I type "Boo Radleys Curve Slowdive"). There's also a social-networking aspect: you'll be able to create profile pages which will display information such as the last song you played, and add other users as "trusted sources" to get their recommendations--very similar to Microsoft's Zune Social."

I'm actually warming up to the idea of a music subscription service. MOG seems to have some neat features, but the apparent lack of portability makes this of no use to me. I've been using the free version of Slacker Radio for a while now and have been pretty pleased with it and haven't upgraded to the paid version simply because I don't find the commercials annoying and have never hit the point that I wanted more than 6 skips an hour.