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The Ubuntu Music Store is now live
By You on Monday March 22nd 2010 03:24 | Category: Software
Lucid Beta testers can rejoice because the Ubuntu Music Store is now live and open for business. If you're into legal music distribution this just might be your highlight of the week.
Even though the Ubuntu music store is realy nothing more than just 7digital with a little juice and some nice Rhythmbox integration many people (including me) have been waiting for it to open up and let us enjoy a sneek preview of the many great things to come.
I have to say I'm not dissapointed at all on behalf of the way it looks.. it looks realy tightly integrated into Rhytmbox, almost as if it had to be there in the first place. I'm still a bit let down by the overall bitrate quality of the music itself (most of the albums are 256kbp/s) but I'm sure they'll work on that once business gets booming.
The funny thing is however.. Ubuntu being open and free and all.. why is the majority of music MP3 format, a codec that Ubuntu won't even support out of the box. The music store does offer to install the MP3 codecs upon first run (if it's not already installed that is..). But I still find this to be inconsistent with the Ubuntu philosophy.
But here I am bashing away at Ubuntu for being inconsistent while we should all celabrate and embrace this nice feature, so what are you still doing reading this.. start up your Rhythmbox damn it!
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