Meeting up with Magnatune

Last Tuesday, John Buckman, founder and CEO of Magnatune.com, and his wife Jan, were cool enough to find an hour in their busy schedule to have a chat and a beer with me. They were stopping by Copenhagen, Denmark, on their way to Aarhus where John was giving a presentation at the Knock, Knock, The Future of Music conference. Jan blogged about our meeting and has a nice picture at the bottom of this blog post!

John and Jan are really nice people, and we had a really great time chatting about traveling, music, Creative Commons vs Free Software, and of course, the Magnatune music store integrated into Amarok.

One of the concrete things we discussed was adding the possibility of ordering a physical CD as well, whenever you buy an album download from within Amarok. This is something a lot of users has requested, but something I cannot implement without help from John. John thought this was a good idea however, so this is a feature that might just make it into Amarok 2.

We also discussed a few other things related to Amarok, but it is a bit early to reveal any of those just yet. Stay tuned though, interesting times are ahead!