The selection is largely limited to ancient or obscure music. By happy coincidence, I love jazz, blues and reggae, and there's tons of that. But a bit more range would have been nice.

The idea of unlimited downloads is over-rated. I once had a hard disk crash and lost a lot of tracks. When I tried to download them again, my account was cancelled because Emusic assumed I had some unspecified leeching program. They later reinstated the account, so there were no hard feelings, but it's worth keeping in mind.

Tracks do disappear from the service, licenses do expire. What you see this week may not be there the next.

Browsing by artist can take hours, the categories are fairly random (I'll never understand the concept of 'urban'), and there was no advanced keyword search on track titles.

But eventually, the sole reason I dumped my subscription was the regional restrictions. If you live in the US, you can download anything. If you live outside the US, many of the big name artists are simply unavailable. This is obviously due to restrictions placed by the likes of Universal and is not Emusic's choice, but it was galling to constantly see music promoted that most of the world cannot download. If Emusic's system is able to detect my location and stop me from downloading certain labels, then they also have the ability to stop those labels from even appearing on the site when we log in. To do otherwise just emphasises the fact that Emusic regards the rest of the world as second-tier customers. If a restaurant regularly seats you at a table by the toilets, you eventually look for somewhere else to eat.