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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. Looks like an okay service... by Eggplant62 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but it's missing something. What I'd like to see most is snippets of the songs, so I might be able to sample what a band sounds like before dropping my cash into. I can see it now: Pay $0.99, listen to the song, decide it sucks, try a different song, pay the $0.99 to listen, lather, rinse, repeat. Not that appealing.

  2. 1st.. by Da+Twink+Daddy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post?

  3. Why Linux though? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Linux followers? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Linux box (a PIII 800 w/512 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Linux box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, Mozilla will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Emacs Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Linux machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Linux box that has run faster than its Windows counterpart, despite the Linux machines faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 800 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Linux is a "superior" machine.

    Linux addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Linux over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.