A long while ago, I pledged Magnatune to pay 10% of its sales due to Rhythmbox (a fantastic music player for Linux), back to the GNOME Foundation. Today, I wrote the check.

Rhythmbox has really excellent integration with Magnatune (for four years now!), which makes for a wonderful marriage between open source and open music. The latest versions support Magnatune memberships, for all-you-can-eat music support on Linux. Read more about it here.

Let me break down the numbers:

Sales from Rhythmbox overall:

$7159 total sales



905 album sales

of which:

Ubuntu changed the ref= on RB sales coming from their distro, so they get credit (and paid) for their sales.

Ubuntu's RB was responsible for:

$1017 in total sales



131 album sales



(fyi, that means an average "pay what you want" of $7.76 per album)

So that leaves for RB/GNOME:

$6142 in total sales



774 total sales



(fyi, that means an average "pay what you want" of $7.93 per album)

Also FYI this means that RB has raised $3579.50 for independent musicians (because we pay out 50% of what comes in to musicians, and the 10% RB payout is coming out of Magnatune's half)

What this means is that I've now sent a check for $614.20 to GNOME Foundation.

Many, many thanks for Adam Zimmerman for writing and maintaining the excellent Magnatune features in Rhythmbox.

-john