Meerkat will make sharing your fave tracks easy

By , Published July 22, 2010

Rhythmbox_024Ubuntu 10.10 will make sharing your favourite tracks with all your friends and online buddies a breeze.

The Ubuntu One Music Store in the Maverick Meerkat introduces a new ‘link share’ button to Rhythmbox.

When listening to a track you think the world should also be toe-tapping alone to just hit the ‘Link Share’ button in the toolbar to perform a quick search for the track in the 7 Digital catalogue. Selection_017Once found you can hit the ‘tweet’ button to send your message directly to Gwibber or copy and paste the link to share via e-mail, blog posts or in instant messages. The link will open in a browser where a user can hit a ‘Get it’ button to preview and/or purchase the track and a 'I have it' button allows a mire some so-and-so the option to forgo the chance to expand their musical palette.Selection_026

One caveat with this pretty nifty treat is the requirement for the person viewing your link, and particularly in wishing to purchase via it, to be running Ubuntu and using the Ubuntu One Music Store.

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://twitter.com/shishimaru1000 Salvatore Cresce

    Original…

  • Anonymous

    nice!!!

  • Bananabob

    All this integration is wonderful, except for those who do not use Twitter, or Rhythmbox. This integration should allow for other applications to work via the same system.

    • http://dieki.myopenid.com/ Dieki

      If someone doesn’t use Rhythmbox, that’s not Ubuntu’s fault. Use *Ubuntu’s* music player to get *Ubuntu’s* features. Don’t want to use Ubuntu’s music player? That’s great! Just don’t complain that you don’t get Ubuntu’s features.

      I’m pretty sure they do this through GwibberMeMenu, which supports non-Twitter social networks; so it should work with Identica, StatusNet, etc.

      • http://twitter.com/KyleClarkeNZ Kyle Clarke

        very well put

  • http://blastfromthepast.se/ Tommy Brunn

    I guess that could be kind of useful… Maybe. What I would like to see is a crazy easy way to set up a DAAP server from within Banshee (or in this case, Rhythmbox). Just a one-click deal and you could be streaming music to a buddy. At least over LAN.

    • http://twitter.com/explodingwalrus Carl Draper

      yeah i second that, Firefly/mt-daapd is a pain to configure, and not exactly a newbie task either.

    • Chris

      Yeah, it should be like “Go to Rhythmbox, go to Plugins, enable DAAP server, click Configure and type in the name of the share, click OK and it works!”.

    • http://dylanmccall.blogspot.com/ Dylan McCall

      There is always PulseAudio’s UPNP sink.You may need to dig into PulseAudio Preferences first, but with PA Volume Control you can find an application’s stream under the Playback tab and send it to the UPnP Streaming output! (Or another PulseAudio server that accepts connections, or an AirTunes device).That’s my favourite way. (Granted, I hardly use it) ;)

      • Anonymous

        This would make a great “How To” article on this site! Maybe you could write one up and request it be posted :P

        • http://dylanmccall.blogspot.com/ Dylan McCall

          I was just about to, but it turns out PA’s preferences tool (or something) has been broken for a year or so now, so it’s impossible to enable / disable that module any more (without using a command line) until somebody fixes it.

          Judging by a bug report I skimmed over, it looks like the tool has hard-coded module paths. Not sure how that works, given that the module does _work_ and it knows it’s enabled. Weird stuff.

          Err, it _is_ quite cool, though :/

    • zekopeko

      Install Tangerine.

    • Stuart Langridge

      Chris’s comment below is perfectly right. Go to Edit > Plugins and tick DAAP music sharing, and then your music will show up in other Rhythmboxes on the network.

  • Anonymous

    Glad to see that ubuntu devs are taking time to implement social networking features instead of bug fixes.

    • http://twitter.com/KyleClarkeNZ Kyle Clarke

      Fix the bug yourself.

      I’m sick of complainers

      • Anonymous

        Touched on a nerve here, have we? Too delicate?
        I’ll tread on thinner eggshells next time.

        • Shasta McShasta

          Ubuntu isn’t perfect, and members of the community will not always agree with the decisions that Canonical makes. But I’m tired of pointless complaints like this. I’ve been following this blog–and the comments–for a long time now. A lot of people honestly sound like spoiled prima-donnas. I’ve used Ubuntu for years now, and I’ve never seen such an amount of people whining for the sake of whining. What set Ubuntu apart from the start was the quality, helpfulness, and camaraderie of the community. As Ubuntu grows, I’d like to see the actual spirit of Ubuntu continue and grow with it. Get over yourself. If you have a problem, file a helpful bug report, wait for a patch, or switch to a different distro/OS. The beauty of the open source community is choice, after all.

          • http://dieki.myopenid.com/ Dieki

            I’ve noticed it too; I think it’s an unfortunate consequence of attracting more users. Per users adveho contemno. (With users come haters.)

          • Steve

            Is it wrong to point out that these changes we see on here are all very nice, but no-one is going to be using them?

            I assume that canonical wants people to use the music store to make a small profit from it, and that’s fine, but when there are 5 year old bugs that make Rhythmbox unusable[1] then this isn’t going to happen.

            [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318579

          • http://dieki.myopenid.com/ Dieki

            You know… if that bug really made RB unusable (It doesn’t), don’t you think it would have been fixed by now? It’s not like Rhythmbox is created by this big corporate entity that doesn’t care about it’s users; it’s created by four or five volunteer developers who use their software daily. *And* even if they somehow missed it, anyone in the world can submit patches; but no one had.

            Regardless of it’s insignificance, this bug is now on it’s way to resolution. (As you would have seen if you’d actually read the bug report you linked to.)

    • http://dieki.myopenid.com/ Dieki

      They’ll focus on bug fixes later, after feature freeze. Social networking features aren’t a waste of time, either; indeed, social networking is one of the main focuses of Ubuntu.

      • Anonymous

        Is it? When did that happen? Is there an official document?

    • Anonymous

      Oh calm yourself. If all they did was fix bugs then we would be running a perfectly crashless terminal because no one would ever implement new features.

      • Anonymous

        right you are.

  • http://twitter.com/Ryu_Kurisu Christiaan Druif

    When will Rhythmbox FINALLY change their icon when you are playing something?
    I can see that it’s playing ONLY because of the little box around the Play-button, why can’t they change the Play-button into a Pause-button?!?!

    OMG! That’s another Ubuntu/Linux thing I guess :-S

  • Claudio

    very nice…..Ubuntu10.10 will rocks! But we want Steam! What can i do with an Nvidia quadro without games? However Ubuntu always is the best choice i can do!

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/C6S22ANL35LHAH27EX43XFQKTQ Klau3

      Jep, Steam would be nice.

    • Anonymous

      Ubuntu can’t implement steam.

      However, valve is porting source to linux so steam for linux naturally follows.

      • Claudio

        yes, i know! but i can’t wait for Steam!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/C6S22ANL35LHAH27EX43XFQKTQ Klau3

    Most people I know don’t use social stuff – including me.
    Always when there is a new shiny social function, I ask myself “who the hell use this?”.

    Nerds may like that kind of things but what is with non technical people? For my dad the ‘MeMenu’ is useless – he don’t understand why it is there an what you can do with it. I guess there are a lot of people that think the same – “who the hell use this social stuff?”.

    • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

      Yeah, who the hell uses facebook or twitter, right? Who’d EVER want to share things they like with friends. So weird, I really can’t understand this.

      • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/C6S22ANL35LHAH27EX43XFQKTQ Klau3

        Facebooks privacy settings are so nice, I really want to use it! – I’m kidding.

        • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

          I was being sarcastic, but I don’t actually use Facebook =P — I’m Brazilian. It isn’t very famous here.

    • Anonymous

      Wait… so the non-technical user doesn’t want social stuff?

      Thats about completely reverse from what every single tech case study in the last 3 years has shown.

      • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/DATA6WDNBSCFJL6JSP5OP3AADQ asedsa

        A. My experience is older computer users don’t use social media the same way we do.
        B. The Me Menu is a usability mess; nothing surprises me about people choosing not to use it.

  • http://wakoopa.com/xfact XFACT

    Go Ubuntu! Social from the start!!!

  • guest

    I don’t know if it is adblock or anything, but I can’t see the images uploaded not in firefox nor in chromium. Please use another site, if you may.

    (P.S. sorry for the off-topic message)

  • http://reelbadcinema.com Erik Dan

    Maybe open up the API and offer up packages so that other Linux distros can tie themselves in, and they might get a bigger step forward with the Ubuntu One stuff.

    Very nice feature addition.

  • http://forteller.net/ Børge A. Roum

    This is cool. But it would be even cooler to have the same kind of “share with friends” feature that Spotify has: There you can drag and drop songs from your playlist to a list of friends in a sidebar, and that song automatically shows up as a recommendation for that person. Shouldn’t be too hard to do this via Ubuntu One.

    • Anonymous

      This would be nice, but there would probably be licensing issues that would prevent this.

 
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