I often found that music on their music service was a buck an album cheaper than Amazon.
It was just a wrapper for 7digital, I think; you can still buy from there.
Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
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#52Very awesome that they release the code. I wish all companies would open source code they don't use anymore. I mean it really doesn't cost anything pushing your old code in a github repo or something.
Where is the code?
They use Launchpad.net to host their code. It's here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntuone
Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
#53Very awesome that they release the code. I wish all companies would open source code they don't use anymore. I mean it really doesn't cost anything pushing your old code in a github repo or something.
Troubling that Ubuntu One wasn't already open source. Can anyone explain to me why every cloud drive is using their own proprietary protocols to do the same thing? Why we have to install a different client for each vendor? That's one thing that annoys me greatly, and I'll never use Dropbox as long as its syncing tool is proprietary. Does anyone else remember when companies were proud that they were the custodians of…
I believe it has been open source for quite some time. Check the link I provided in the comment below for their repo page.
Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
#54I'm one of the heavy users of this. It integrates with all my devices better than other options. Google Still hasn't released a Linux client and the dropbox app has been very flakey for me in Ubuntu.
I've set my phone camera pics auto sync to all my devices. All my music and photos are backed up with Ubuntu One. When I upgrade my OS version, I sync all important files here. When I switched jobs late last year, my music was instantly available at my new office. When I'm working and I need a file on my Windows machine, I just throw it in Ubuntu One and switch keyboards.
I'm disappointed by this, but not surprised. They haven't been doing anything with the product in a long time.
I had hoped that just meant it was a stable product.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, and honestly the setup in early versions was horrible. I tried so many times to make it work and gave up in the end. They shouldn't have released it so early back then when it was obviously not production ready.
This approach to things is what killed Ubuntu (yes, killed, not is killing). See PulseAudio, Unity, etc
I have heard that most of the trouble everyone had with PulseAudio had less to do with PulseAudio itself and more to do with terrible audio drivers that did all sorts of awful things when commanded to do relatively basic tasks by anything more complicated than Alsa.
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#56"Today we are announcing plans to shut down the Ubuntu One file services. This is a tough decision, particularly when our users rely so heavily on the functionality that Ubuntu One provides" Ok, so do users really rely so heavily on Ubuntu One? If so, then why do you shut it down? If no, then why do you say they rely on it? I believe they don't rely on it. "The Ubuntu One file services will not be included in the upc…
> Ok, so do users really rely so heavily on Ubuntu One? If so, then why do you shut it down? If no, then why do you say they rely on it? From the article: > Additionally, the free storage wars aren’t a sustainable place for us to be, particularly with other services now regularly offering 25GB-50GB free storage. In other words, they can't compete with Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive, Google Drive, and whatever flavor of the w…
As someone who works at SpiderOak, cloud storage isn't easy and requires a different infrastructural mindset than a traditional software vendor.
Out of the 4 of our peers you mentioned, two are sizable companies in their own right but are dedicated to their essentially one product, and the other two are products produced by giant mega-corporations that have room for product teams as large as us, Box, and DropBox put together.
It ain't easy, being cloudy.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
This approach to things is what killed Ubuntu (yes, killed, not is killing). See PulseAudio, Unity, etc
Why does PulseAudio have anything to do with Ubuntu? AFAIK, there is no relation between the two, other than the fact that Ubuntu offers PulseAudio (along with almost every other distro).
I must admit that, more than once, an Ubuntu upgrade killed my audio and I had to go and fix it myself. It's really painful that a distro that wants to be number 1 is so broken at times.
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#58This is so bad, I deployed my sites using Ubuntu One. However I'm very grateful they decided to opensource it, at least I have a hope to keep implementing it.
Silver lining in the cloud (sorry could not resist) why don't you optimise for site deployment and then resell the service?
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#59It's good to be periodically reminded that "FREE! FOREVER! CLOUDCLOUDCLOUD!" is hot air.
Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
This approach to things is what killed Ubuntu (yes, killed, not is killing). See PulseAudio, Unity, etc
Why does PulseAudio have anything to do with Ubuntu? AFAIK, there is no relation between the two, other than the fact that Ubuntu offers PulseAudio (along with almost every other distro).
Ubuntu pushed pulse before it was production ready -- I like that they did that, because it accelerated the production-readiness of a great idea with buggy implementation, and I'm using debian where stability matters anyway :P