Online store opens in New Zealand
Six months ago, I changed my Windows User Input Locale setting from English (Australia) to English(New Zealand) to evade the ghastly online stores that had
invaded my desktop. When these stores turned up, the album reviews and track listings available through the windowsmedia.com database (the *only* database accessible to WMP users: it's not CDDB and it's not user configurable) were replaced by some really poorly presented rows of unrelated albums generated from the od2.com fugly thumbnail catalog that the vendor wanted to sell. Over the last 6 months, I can confirm that the presentation of this catalog hasn't become any more professional. The
ninemsn suggestions are still laid out in a stupefyingly primitive manner.
Tonight I noticed that Digirama had opened as the NZ Music Store, and I thought I may have to reset my locale to English(Belize) (which at time of writing, was still spared the incursion of online stores). Fortunately, the View Album Info function has not been relinquished to the the OD2 fugly thumbnail server and you can still get album reviews from the windowsmedia.com.
If that is lost, I guess I'll be grabbing my scuba gear, sand-fly ointment and heading for Belize...