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'Ubuntu One Music' App Streams Your Music Collection to Android

by Terrence O'Brien on October 3, 2010 at 09:00 AM

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Reviewing the latest version of Ubuntu back in May, we mentioned that the Ubuntu One syncing service was integrated with a music store, allowing you to sync your song library across Ubuntu PCs and access it from the Web. In advance of Ubuntu 10.10, code-named Maverick Meerkat, Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) has launched Ubuntu One Music for Android. The app allows streaming playback of any MP3 stored in your Ubuntu One account, not just ones you've purchased through the associated music store. That means you can simply set your Music folder to "sync," and immediately have access to all of your tunes anywhere you go (though Ubuntu One's two gigabytes of storage is rather meager).

At the moment, Ubuntu One Music for Android offers basic features: shuffle, browse by album, search, and song caching for offline playback. At the moment, it doesn't support playlists or file formats other than MP3. Those features, along with an iPhone app, will be added in the future. For now, the Ubuntu One Music streaming service is free. When it leaves beta, the app will remain free, but the service itself will require a subscription (similar to the model being used by Hulu+ on the iPad and iPhone).

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Tags: android, apps, Canonical, linux, music, streaming, streamingmusic, top, ububtu, UbuntuOne, UbuntuOneMusic

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