+1. I ended up downloading Opera and turning it into a "native Linux Earbits client": runs full screen in its own virtual desktop in the background all the time.

It's a mystery to me why Amazon/Google music services are grabbing all the spotlight. The story of label-free music playing on real radio is way more interesting. Not only there's none of that piracy nonsense, but best of all, the risk of being accidently hit in the ear by a manufactured retro-mutants like Beiber is zero.