SpiralFrog is a music-industry-approved free-music site. According to the article, it'll have a large catalog, but will be in DRM'd WMA and will require frequent revisits to the site in order to keep the music active. It's supposed to be ad-based, so I imagine that you'll have to sit through ads each time.

What I wonder is how intrusive the ads will be, how they're going to prevent people from automating the process and how intrusive that will be. Of course, we all know ways around the DRM (which will, of course, reduce quality, but if it's for one of those songs that you don't have an interest in paying a dollar for, who cares?).

Anyone have any thoughts? At the very least, it sounds like a good way to check out some new music. Well, other than the fact that it'll actually only be big-label recordings and nothing a large segment of the population will be interested in.