Nokia Music Store opens in France
Published by krisse at 14:41 BST, April 23rd 2008
The Nokia Music Store is now available in France, with a pricing of 1 euro per song, 10 euros per album, or 10 euros a month to listen to all the store's tracks through a PC. As with the other Nokia Music Stores, tracks can be bought onto a PC and sideloaded onto a phone, or bought and downloaded directly onto certain phone models.
Here's the full press release:
Opening today: the Nokia Music Store in France
April 23, 2008
Paris, France - The Nokia Music Store in France
combines quality music and exceptional mobile devices, all without
sacrificing ease-of-use. It also offers over 2.5 million titles from
the best French and international artists, of which some are available
exclusively. Local music is very important in France, where more than
60% of songs on the "Hit Parade" hits list are by local artists. Nokia
is working with major record companies as well as independent labels
and the top local artists.
"The
music industry isn't just about selling songs; it is also—and
especially—a way to share new musical experiences. Nokia aims to
provide the best music experience by building services into its mobile
devices to satisfy users who want to be able to access their music
collections anytime, anywhere, and for a reasonable price," explains
Eric Munier, music activities manager, Nokia France.
"The
opening of the Nokia Music Store will also be an opportunity to
introduce Nokia to the music industry in France. We look forward to
cooperating with French labels and artists. In this context, the Nokia
Music Store will allow artists to talk about their musical world and
what they're working on. Free songs will also be available each week in
order to discover new talents," continued Munier.
Downloads
will cost €1.00 per song and albums will start at €10.00. With a €10.00
monthly subscription, users will have unlimited access to listen to the
entire catalogue on their PCs.
With
a single account, music lovers can access the Nokia Music Store from
their desktop computers or directly from compatible Nokia mobile
devices such as the Nokia N81 8GB, Nokia N82, and the Nokia N95 8GB.
You can search for new music, get advice, or search for your favourite
artists, songs, or albums, all from the palm of your hand. When an item
grabs your attention, you can add it to your selection to purchase
later, or download it instantly to your mobile device.
Categories: Software, Links of Interest, Industry
Platforms: Series 60, General, S60 3rd Edition
News Discussion
JimH
"Mozilla Firefox n'est pas compatible avec Nokia Music" i.e. Mozilla Firefox is not compatible with Nokia Music
I *thought* that this IE-only limitation was announced at Nokia Play as a short term issue, perhaps not.
Yes, I know I'm not the target audience for malware and bland major-label music artists, but still, I'm underwhelmed.
Comes with Music? My E61 did. It's all paid-for or free, and none of it's from Sony-BMG et al :-)
krisse
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Yes, I know I'm not the target audience for malware and bland major-label music artists, but still, I'm underwhelmed.
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You're not the only one, this lack of Firefox support is just silly. They're browsers for heaven's sake, not operating systems. It's not that difficult to provide support for two or more browsers on a single website.
And like I keep saying, on the Finnish Nokia Music Store they're turning away most of their potential customers by not supporting Firefox.
Hopefully Nokia's just doing a "one step at a time" thing, seeing how the site performs on IE before expanding it to Firefox.
The irony is that Nokia themselves have actually done quite a lot to develop and promote alternatives to IE, with their S60 smartphone browser (which is related to Safari) and their MicroB internet tablet browser (which is related to Firefox).
viipottaja
Get over it guys. IE is not THAT evil.
tenoce
Many people were complaining about the missing compatibility of Nokia Music Shop and Firefox.
The storefront, payment, transaction everything is compatible with Firefox, however due to the company decided to limit customer complaints it limited the access to IE.
Why?
Because of the DRM implemented. License delivery is only seamless with IE:
*license pre-delivery is only possible with Windows Media Palyer and IE
*automatic Windows Media Player authentication from browser session is only possible with IE (without the need of re-authentication in the Media Player)
With other browsers these two issues have to be solved, otherwise the customer care load would be higher.
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