Comments on: UbuntuOne Music Store – Your Questions Answered

By: gnubie

gnubie — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:58:00 +0000

I cant believe that there is no OGG. How can there ever be any serious alternative to closed formats if the most visible, if not popular FOSS mascot does not even TRY to push it.
There is a wasted opportunity here, especially now that FF is playing open formats.

By: Me

Me — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:43:00 +0000

Thanks, pretty expensive unfortunately, with the Euro to Â£ rate…

By: Joseph Schwenekr

Joseph Schwenekr — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:29:00 +0000

I thought that Ubuntu was supposed to encourage people to use open formats! That is the whole goal of Ubuntu! And yet, they are supporting only the patented MP3 format.

By: d0od

d0od — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:04:00 +0000

That’s the really interesting stuff that hopefully we’ll find out before April.

By: d0od

d0od — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:04:00 +0000

Has someone told Merkel? =P

By: Heimen Stoffels

Heimen Stoffels — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:34:00 +0000

Yeah, finally they are thinking of the Kubuntu users like me! Amarok ftw.

By: insanelyapple

insanelyapple — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:38:00 +0000

so, seems that germany isnt a part of EU.

By: erigami

erigami — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:30:00 +0000

My question: How much will Canonical make per track?

I want to buy music, and I want to support Canonical, but if they’re going to be making fractions of a penny, I’m not going to bother moving my music collection onto Ubuntu and hosting it there. BUT, if they’re making a reasonable amount (more than a few pennies), then I’m totally into it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:05:00 +0000

“Most popular songs are licensed by territory (basically by country). Our starting territories will be the UK, US, Germany, the EU, and the Rest of World. Customers who use the EU store (users not located in the UK or Germany) Most popular songs are licensed by territory (basically by country). Our starting territories will be the UK, US, Germany, the EU, and the Rest of World. Customers who use the EU store (users not located in the UK or Germany) ”

As far as I know, both Germany and the UK are member of the EU..

The two great disadvantages of the Ubuntu Music store
1 – No ogg, that’s a bummer. I hope this will be available..
2 – 7Digital is still really expensive imho.. Who is stupid enough to pay as much for a digital copy as a real cd? I mean, most cd’s are ten euro’s, so are the online versions..

But hey, it’s better than iTunes ;)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:44:00 +0000

I’m intrigued how this “Rest of the World” thing will affect NZ and Australia. Does it mean we get less selection, or more?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:42:00 +0000

Just listen to the Dave Matthews Band, I think they offer all of their music in FLAC as well as mp3 :P

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:41:00 +0000

Ha! Alan beat you to this one on the Planet :P

By: Maleficus

Maleficus — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:01:00 +0000

Since when do we care about them? =)

By: popey

popey — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:01:00 +0000

Many millions of people will probably disagree with you there. :)

By: popey

popey — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Sure they can. Just move the music out of your U1 folder. Simple. Of course as soon as you do that, you’re no longer syncing your music with other machines, and you’ll have to figure out your own backup system, but it’s still possible.

By: popey

popey — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:59:00 +0000

Try it and see. :)

By: popey

popey — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:58:00 +0000

I paid between Â£0.79 and Â£1.29 for the tracks I bought.

By: sharkbait

sharkbait — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:36:00 +0000

“We have received approval from the music labels for the Ubuntu One Music Store to be embedded within Banshee, Amarok, and a few other applications.” Why the hell would Ubuntu need permission to do this? How can they have any jurisdiction over our desktops? If I make my own music player, do I have to ask them before I integrate the music store in it?

By: M1AU

M1AU — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:52:00 +0000

Thank you for the link.

By: M1AU

M1AU — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:50:00 +0000

That’s exactly how I feel about it. Currently I still buy CDs a lot even if I always rip them to FLAC and probably will never listen to themselves (though, they make a perfect backup). My perfect solution would be paying the current prices for FLAC files and about the half for MP3.
Luckily there are a few rare shops out there, which also offer FLAC downloads for the same price like http://www.digital-tunes.net for electronic music enthusiasts.