Comments on: Ubuntu Music Store Coming In Lucid – Gets Detailed

By: rickey Surname or initialgupta

rickey Surname or initialgupta — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:17:00 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 May 2010 03:50:00 +0000

This is super news for Linux users, right? Since Linux is not the primary choice for am operating system on the majority of computers, such an application is welcome by the Linux users community. Good job designers!!!
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By: Ryan Peters

Ryan Peters — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:58:00 +0000

The files will be much larger with your solution, but they’ll be DRM free. I’d just buy the physical CD and rip to FLAC for 0 loss in quality compared to the CD :)

By: James Cain

James Cain — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:10:00 +0000

One easy way around that is to burn the album to a CD and then re-rip into FLAC Lossless or similar. If there’s any quality loss (I’m sure there theoretically is), I haven’t noticed it.

By: James Cain

James Cain — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:06:00 +0000

Not everyone likes DRM’d iTunes and most don’t know what Spotify even is. There’s a definitive market for this. However, those who use Songbird (like me) with Linux Mint KDE probably will not use it. But it’s all about the user “Experience”. In other words, even if things like Ubuntu One and the Ubuntu Music Store are equivalents to services already available, having these items integrated into the ‘Buntu family will create a better user experience.

Don’t forget the aim of Ubuntu is delivering the best user experience for Ubuntu as possible.

Besides, songbird uses 7Digital and Amarok uses Magnatune.com.

Anything that makes it easy and cost-effective to purchase music instead of pirating it is OK with me.

By: Mc Fly

Mc Fly — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:21:00 +0000

Awesome.

I hope they bring in a movie store as well!

Ubuntu all the way now. I love it when they bring stuff like this. Ppl complaining about it don’t have to use it, I sure will.

Thank you!

By: Stonk

Stonk — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:14:00 +0000

I bought an album from 7Digital last thursday that was WMA. I did not realise it was DRMed as it had no indication until after I’d bought it. Sent them an email – heard nothing. What’s your experience with getting a refund from them?

By: Michael Martin-Smucker

Michael Martin-Smucker — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:13:00 +0000

Banshee can play Last.fm if you’re using the latest development release. And, as far as I know, Banshee uses the new Last.fm API (version 2.0), while Rhythmbox is somehow still using the deprecated 1.0 API. That API could stop working at any time, and using it is probably a violation of Last.fm’s terms of use. I’d hardly give the advantage to Rhythmbox on this one.

By: .n-b.

.n-b. — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:34:00 +0000

I hope it looks just like the mock-up.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:45:00 +0000

Good thing.

By: simone

simone — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000

I use to download the music I’d like to listen, but if I find that I love it than I buy it.

Like this: http://www.myspace.com/pomplamoosemusic
They are great!

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:22:00 +0000

7digital sells MP3s in 14 different countries including Canada…

By: Laszlo

Laszlo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:15:00 +0000

iTunes may no longer apply blanket DRM to their tunes but they’re still AAC format which you’d have to convert (lossily) in order to play them on many devices. And correct me if I’m wrong but aren’t iTunes encoding @ 192k? 7digital sell 320k MP3s for the same price – much better IMHO…

By: d0od

d0od — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:00 +0000

It’s not Ubuntu’s job to go and patch every music player available, but it is their job to enure that what ever player is the default supports that. For Lucid that will 99% be Rhythmbox, but Banshee is also in their minds (but it has a ton of newer bugs since karmic and seems to be heading off in a weird direction by becoming a media centre rather than an audio player)

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:58:00 +0000

iTunes music has no DRM, and hasn’t done for a while. Also, anyone familiar with the inside story will tell you that the labels withheld allowing iTunes to sell DRM free music even when they allowed other sites like Amazon to do so, purely as a negotiation tactic to get themselves a better deal from Apple. So if it wasn’t for that we might have seen DRM free tracks on Apple a year or two earlier than we eventually did.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:04:00 +0000

Actually I would really like to be able to purchase music legally in Ubuntu, or just linux in general. Silly if it is only through Rythmbox though, there are many other music players that people use. Then of course there isn’t proper support for the latest iPods, which most people use.

There’s no iTunes in Linux, which I hate anyway because Apple is horrible all their DRM. Amazon doesn’t sell music in Canada. 7D is only in the UK I believe… I’ll give Puretracks a try.

By: Mohan

Mohan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:52:00 +0000

I don’t mind that a web browser will be built in and that the credit card won’t be stored as that is how the Nintendo Wii Shop and the DSi Shop works. Sounds cool, and I welcome it!

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:43:00 +0000

Fantastic Idea. This is one of the ones that I agree with :P (although, I can’t really see myself using it… why buy music when I rarely use my mp3 player and can listen to it legally, for free, online).

By: 1916home

1916home — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:31:00 +0000

Isnt that what iTunes is? Amazon is what a dollar? Still outrageously overpriced considering the artists are lucky to get 25 cents of an entire album.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:56:00 +0000

Where are you getting $1.29 from?