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Ruckus Closes Down

Posted by timothy on from the long-overdue dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to TechCrunch, Ruckus, the ad-supported music service targeted at college students, has closed down for good. Ruckus was notable for its poorly-designed client software and .wma-only DRM-laden catalog of 3,000,000 tracks, somewhat less than half the size of the iTunes catalog."

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  1. Good riddance. by vishbar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ruckus plus FairUse4WM made for a good time. The only reason I used it was to download the songs, strip the DRM, and put 'em on my iPod as beautiful, DRM-free mp3s. The client itself was horrible. I won't be missing it one bit.

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  2. Uhhhh.....free? by martin_henry · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ruckus was notable for its poorly-designed client software and .wma-only DRM-laden catalog of 3,000,000 tracks, somewhat less than half the size of the iTunes catalog.

    I think it was far more notable for that fact that it gave away almost half the size of the itunes catalog for free.

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    1. Re:Uhhhh.....free? by Jurily · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I think it was far more notable for that fact that it gave away almost half the size of the itunes catalog for free.

      Now that they're closing down, how long can the customers use those tracks?

  3. Dominated by streaming services by vigmeister · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I used Ruckus when it came out as my music provider, but moved to streaming music providers like deezer when they popped up. To be blunt, Ruckus had nothing more to offer than these services except the joys of installing a poorly written piece of software on your computer. I, for one, am not likely to miss it.

    Cheers!

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  4. Re:Never used it. But... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Informative

    I strongly suspect that WMA was a really big deal. Remember WMA DRM = Doesn't work on iPods. Based on the usual market share numbers, that is pretty much a dealbreaker for over half the population(and college students are probably more likely than the population at large to be using iPods).

  5. Re:Never used it. But... by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Remember WMA DRM = Doesn't work on iPods."

    lol, everyone uses Zunes, who cares about iPod. Also everyone uses Internet Explorer. And Windows.

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  6. DRM + ads by Elder+Lane+Hour · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait, wait, wait, so you're saying that this store combines DRM and ads? Wow!

    And their range is a fraction of iTunes', which is a fraction of the pirate bay's, you say? Cool!

    What's that? The store client is buggy, and there's only one type of uncommonly used proprietary format? No shit!

    Oh and you say it closed down? I wonder why something like that would happen...