Magnatune

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Magnatune
Founded2003 (2003)[citation needed]
FounderJohn Buckman
Country of originU.S.
LocationBerkeley, California
Official websitewww.magnatune.com

Magnatune is an American

Amazon.com.[citation needed] In May 2008, Magnatune launched all-you-can-eat membership plans. From March 2010 Magnatune dropped the CD printing service and moved exclusively to all-you-can-eat membership plans.[2] Magnatune was the first record label to license music online[3] and as of May 2015 had sold over 7,000 licenses in its twelve years of existence.[4]

Overview

Magnatune makes non-exclusive agreements with artists and gives them 50% of any proceeds from online sales or licensing.

FLAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis and AAC encoding formats. Music files sold by Magnatune do not use any form of digital rights management to prevent customers from making copies of music files they have purchased; Magnatune encourages buyers to share up to three copies with friends.[7]

All of the tracks downloaded free of charge are licensed under the

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.[citation needed] Even though using liberal licensing is not a new idea in itself, Magnatune is one of the first companies to try to build a business in music around this idea.[citation needed
]

Founder

John Buckman is founder of Magnatune.[

Free Culture movement. In September 2007, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation[8] and in February 2010 was appointed chairman of the board.[9] In April 2015 Buckman launched Decent Espresso,[10]
a company that is designing a new home espresso machine.

Buckman is the co-author of an article in SysAdmin Magazine (later acquired by

Dr. Dobbs) entitled "Which OS is Fastest for High-Performance Network Applications?"[11] and the author of an article in Linux Journal entitled "Magnatune, an Open Music Experiment."[12]

Integration with media players

Magnatune has an

media players possible. Amarok (from version 1.4.4, released in October 2006) allows users to preview and buy music from all signed artists from within the application. Rhythmbox 0.9.7 added this functionality in December 2006. A Slim Devices plugin for Logitech Media Server is available.[13] A plugin for Songbird is also available.[14] Clementine added support for Magnatune in version 0.4.[15]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Hear no evil". The Economist. 15 September 2005. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  2. ^ a b John Buckman (2010-03-17). "Magnatune blog: New Business Model for Magnatune". Blogs.magnatune.com. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  3. ^ "License music from". Magnatune. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  4. ^ "Music Licensing at Magnatune". Magnatune. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  5. ^ Linux Journal, issue 118. (2004-02-01). "Magnatune, an Open Music Experiment (Archived)". Archived from the original on 2019-07-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ John Buckman (2011-02-05). "Magnatune blog: Short adverts". Blog.magnatune.com. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  7. ^ Magnatune. "Give 3 Free Copies to Your Friends".
  8. ^ "Two Leading Technologists Join EFF Board of Directors". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-07-06. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
  9. ^ "10 Year Term of EFF Chairman Winds Down with EFF's 20th Anniversary Tonight". Electronic Frontier Foundation. 10 February 2010.
  10. ^ NYTM (30 April 2015). "ZPM Espresso and the Rage of the Jilted Crowdfunder". The New York Times.
  11. ^ Buckman, John & Rothman, Jeffrey B. (2001). "Which OS is Fastest for High-Performance Network Applications?". Sys Admin Magazine.
  12. ^ Buckman, John (2004). "Magnatune, an Open Music Experiment". Linux Journal.
  13. ^ "Magnatune for SqueezeCenter download | SourceForge.net". Magnaslim.sourceforge.net. Archived from the original on 2008-09-27. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  14. ^ "Songbird Add-ons". Archived from the original on 2008-05-03. Retrieved 2008-05-02.
  15. ^ "GitHub – clementine-player/Clementine: Clementine Music Player". Code.google.com. Retrieved 2016-11-13.

External links

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magnatune&oldid=1186955610"