Thursday, May 8. 2008
Magnatune memberships launched, Amarok 2 offers full support
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Since there are no screenshots and I'm not yet running Amarok2, this comment might be based on false assumptions.
Is the purchase/download interaction conducted in a browser that gets launched, or is it all within amarok?
If it's in a browser, would it be possible to implement them in a context view plasmoid instead? Delegating it to a browser just seems like an unnecessary loss of integration, since I'm pretty sure that applications are capable of using secured (SSL or otherwise) connections over http.
Is the purchase/download interaction conducted in a browser that gets launched, or is it all within amarok?
If it's in a browser, would it be possible to implement them in a context view plasmoid instead? Delegating it to a browser just seems like an unnecessary loss of integration, since I'm pretty sure that applications are capable of using secured (SSL or otherwise) connections over http.
No, it is all handled completely within Amarok.
For purchasing you get a screen for entering credit card or gift card information ( which is securely sent to Magnatune ) and then go to a dialog for choosing download format and location. For member downloads you basically just skip the payment screen completely.
In the existing version of Amarok, if you download to a folder that is already within your collection, it is added automatically. In Amarok 2 it will be possible to download directly to any writable collection.
One of my original goals of the Magnatune integration was that you should never have to leave Amarok at all.
For purchasing you get a screen for entering credit card or gift card information ( which is securely sent to Magnatune ) and then go to a dialog for choosing download format and location. For member downloads you basically just skip the payment screen completely.
In the existing version of Amarok, if you download to a folder that is already within your collection, it is added automatically. In Amarok 2 it will be possible to download directly to any writable collection.
One of my original goals of the Magnatune integration was that you should never have to leave Amarok at all.
Wow, this really sounds great. For me, this sounds like a perfect way to manage music in the future.
All that I wish for now is magnatune to offer way more music and to lower the price for the streaming service significantly. I have yet to find music I like at the magnatune store.
All that I wish for now is magnatune to offer way more music and to lower the price for the streaming service significantly. I have yet to find music I like at the magnatune store.
Yeah, we are quite exited about this as well.
I don't think the prices will be lowered. Really, $9 per month is not that much in my opinion. Remember that the streaming membership is meant mostly for people who already know that there is music on Magnatune that they like and who would like to access it from wherever they are. For figuring out if there is anything you like, the free, non membership, streams ( which will always be available with a small nag at the end ) should be just fine.
Magnatune is adding a good handful of new albums each month, so the collection is actually growing quite steadily. I think that a lot of really good stuff has actually been added quite recently.
I don't think the prices will be lowered. Really, $9 per month is not that much in my opinion. Remember that the streaming membership is meant mostly for people who already know that there is music on Magnatune that they like and who would like to access it from wherever they are. For figuring out if there is anything you like, the free, non membership, streams ( which will always be available with a small nag at the end ) should be just fine.
Magnatune is adding a good handful of new albums each month, so the collection is actually growing quite steadily. I think that a lot of really good stuff has actually been added quite recently.
Well, I must have been drunk or something when I read it. $ 9 is just around a price that I was thinking of. Was reading "$54/every-three-months" on Mr. Buckman's blog and didn't see that this was meant for all three people that had signed up in the first 12 hours of the service. So I actually thought the price was three times as high ($ 27/month).
Great, now magnatune just has to offer more music.
Great, now magnatune just has to offer more music.
Compared to 128kbs mp3' it is high quality.
Besides, for something most people listen to on their computers, anything more is complete overkill IMO. If you are an audiophile with a $10.000 sound system, you should download albums in Flac or Wav instead of bothering with streams in any case...
Besides, for something most people listen to on their computers, anything more is complete overkill IMO. If you are an audiophile with a $10.000 sound system, you should download albums in Flac or Wav instead of bothering with streams in any case...
So I take it that if somebody wants to add stream capturing support to Amarok, it will be rejected because it would bypass Magnatune's 2 membership levels?
No Magnatune does not have that kind of influence over the Amarok project.
You are free to capture any of the streams. Besides, it would not really bypass the memberships, as the whole point is that the memberships give you better quality, nag-free, streams and perfect quality downloads.
You are free to capture any of the streams. Besides, it would not really bypass the memberships, as the whole point is that the memberships give you better quality, nag-free, streams and perfect quality downloads.
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