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Music Store discontinued in Rhythmbox

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: ubuntuone-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From : Joshua Hoover <joshua.hoover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

: Joshua Hoover <joshua.hoover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date : Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:25:18 -0500

: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:25:18 -0500 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130404 Thunderbird/17.0.5

Since launching the Ubuntu One music store on the web [1] there has been a steady flow of traffic to the web store and away from the store embedded in Rhythmbox on Ubuntu. The music store in Rhythmbox is operated separately from the one on the web, which means it requires a fair amount of additional work to keep it running smoothly. In order to make the music store better for everyone, regardless of what device they may be using at any given moment, we’re focusing on the web music store and removing the store from Rhythmbox in Ubuntu 13.04 as well as from previous releases, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 12.10 via a stable release update [2]. With this change, all Ubuntu One music purchases will be made at https://one.ubuntu.com/music-store instead of in Rhythmbox. Your purchases will still automatically be delivered to your cloud storage, download to your computer and be available in Rhythmbox. Of course, if you have a music streaming subscription, you can also stream all your music from the web, Android, or iOS. [1] http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/2012/09/11/ubuntu-one-music-store-now-on-the-web-and-on-your-mobile/ [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox-ubuntuone/+bug/1166356