You might have read the news in the web that Ubuntu is planning to launch a music store named Ubuntu One music store. Ubuntu has released an FAQ on that. You can find the FAQ here.
Ubuntu One Music Store will be driven by 7Digital. The songs will be DRM (Digital Rights Management) free, so you can copy the songs to your music player, burn them to a CD or copy them to any computer you want. The songs will be available in high quality 256Kbps MP3 and some songs might be in higher bit rate.
Ubuntu One Music Store will be integrated into Rythmbox. This helps you download the songs and copy them to iPod or other music players. Ubuntu is also planning to release the integration as a plugin, so users using Banshee or Amarok or other music player would be able to use Ubuntu One Music Store.
The following are the features you can expect from Ubuntu One Music Store.
- Search by artist, album, or track
- Browse recommendations and genres
- Discover new releases or just released songs each week
- A convenient shopping basket
- Support for a variety of payment options
To purchase the songs, you need Ubuntu One account. If you already have an account, you are ready to go. If not, you can easily create one. You also get 2GB of online storage free with your Ubuntu One account. Purchased songs are automatically transferred to your cloud storage, synchronized to all of your computers, and added to Rhythmbox. Customers will find a new library that contains purchases from the Ubuntu One Music Store.
Customers can download the purchased songs 3 times maximum from the music store. This will help in case they lost the songs they purchased due to error or hardware issue or some other unknown issue.
In order to use Ubuntu One Music Store, you have to have Ubuntu 10.04 installed (which will be released this April).
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