Lørdag den 20. februar 2010 03:12:30 skrev Jeff Mitchell:
As you may know, Amarok has supported multiple music stores for some time. We have had one explicit music store -- Magnatune -- and the framework for more. We've been in talks with some other independent stores and so far no other store plugins have been created, but generally only for lack of investment by these stores (many of them tend to go out of business before they really get off the ground...such is the industry). Amarok gets a small cut of sales to Magnatune, which are reinvested in the project -- which is a non-profit entity incorporated under the SFC.
I posed a question to Will Stephenson during Camp KDE, and I'd like to bring it up here today, in light of the Ubuntu One Music Store plugin finally being pushed in Rhythmbox (see http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzk5Ng ). The concept had been public before, but not much information has been available.
I don't think you mentioned if Amarok have a policy for such a thing - would you guys ever integrate it into "mainline" Amarok? .. of course an opt-in 3rd party script is a different matter. openSUSE doesn't have mp3 support (fluendo+gstreamer) out of the box anymore does it? That would be one major problem - since I assume the Ubuntu store wouldn't sell OGG Vorbis or Flac - or perhaps even wav? It would also be a bit problematic to promote and support a competitor of openSUSE. So I'd say Ubuntu music store should be a no-go - unless it provides a significant advantage over other options that I'm not aware of. But generally speaking I wouldn't mind it if openSUSE shipped integration with a for-profit, non free software/free culture related music store - as long as it offered music in formats supported by openSUSE out of the box, without DRM and doesn't belong to a competitor of openSUSE. I'm speaking as a plain community member btw. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org