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Music Download Service Targets Linux Desktops

Posted by michael on from the about-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to DesktopLinux.com, a new music download service was launched recently by theKompany.com that, unlike iTunes and Napster, targets Linux desktops. Mindawn is claimed to provide CD-quality song files and 'virtually no' digital rights management (DRM) restrictions, offer full previews of the entire songs, and provide downloads in a variety of formats." There's also an interview with the founder.

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  1. eMusic already supports Linux by eMartin · · Score: 4, Informative

    eMusic offers MP3 downloads and also offers a Linux version of their download manager (if you choose to use it).

  2. where I stopped reading by levl289 · · Score: 4, Informative
    While many of the 1,000 or so tracks now featured on the service...



    You could literally have the best and most rights friendly (whose?) service on the planet, but if all you have is one thousand songs, and no deals with recognizable record companys, or artists (it'll never happen with their TOS), why should I care?

    Really, this isn't a troll, but this just strikes me as being along the same lines as the truckloads of audio players that play a bjillion formats, but don't actually offer anything that I want.

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  3. Re:Looks like an okay service... by ljaguar · · Score: 4, Informative

    WTF? how did this get modded up? right there on the page:

    "...offer full previews of the entire songs..."

    not to mention even iTunes Music Store has 30 second clips of every song. And it's not lame like first 30 seconds or random clip of middle of nowhere - the 30 seconds are chosen manually to be the representative sound of the song.

    So parent is very mistaken. nevermind RTFA, RTF summary.

  4. Unsustainable? Not hardly by Ethelred+Unraed · · Score: 4, Informative
    The Mindawn Player runs on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows, and is really only needed for previewing songs (you can also buy via the website). Thus all three major platforms are fully supported.

    The other point is that yes, the number of tracks available is small. But Mindawn is actively looking for new and independent artists -- think of the site as a kind of CaféPress for music geeks, though of course some big-name artists (such as James LaBrie from DreamTheater) are coming soon.

    Cheers,

    Ethelred

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  5. Re:OGG format? by hondo77 · · Score: 2, Informative

    So get the FLAC versions and convert it to whatever you want.

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  6. Re:OGG = lossy by Enry · · Score: 2, Informative

    Vorbis is lossy. OGG is a container format that can have Vorbis or FLAC as codecs. So a .ogg file can contain a FLAC-formatted song and thus be non-lossy.