Re:Ubuntu primes music service
by yungchin on Saturday January 16, 2010 @06:08AM
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This would be nice. As Canonical is more or less London-based, I'd rather expect them to partner with 7Digital than with Amazon or Apple, as was suggested.
There's a problem though: if they stick to shipping Ubuntu without MP3 codecs (and I can't see how they would legally get around that), how are they going to offer a reasonable out-of-the-box experience for this music service?
Re:Ubuntu primes music service
by gmartres on Saturday January 16, 2010 @07:04AM
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That hasn't been a problem since a few releases, the audio player just asks the user if he wants to install the codec(this is the case with Amarok on Kubuntu, the behaviour should be similar with whatever player is used on Ubuntu).
There's a problem though: if they stick to shipping Ubuntu without MP3 codecs (and I can't see how they would legally get around that), how are they going to offer a reasonable out-of-the-box experience for this music service?