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Ruckus is Dead
So the music-subscription service Ruckus is now officially dead.
As a college student I've used the service for quite a few months now, and was really pleased with it. For those who aren't familiar, Ruckus was a music solution created to cater to college students who were rampantly pirating music. The program partnered with a bunch of college/universities and allowed students to download Microsoft-DRM music but without any fees or limits on downloads. The service has gone down supposedly due to a few flaws, including the DRM which prevented tracks from being played on iPods in addition to being non-mac compatible.
I guess my question is what people think about a service like this, and if any viable and usable alternatives exist. Part of the awesomeness of Ruckus was that it was partnered with all of the huge record companies so it featured a lot of the major artists that invade the popular music conscience, in addition to having some of the more obscure stuff as well. Will we ever have an ideal internet-based music distribution platform?
As a college student I've used the service for quite a few months now, and was really pleased with it. For those who aren't familiar, Ruckus was a music solution created to cater to college students who were rampantly pirating music. The program partnered with a bunch of college/universities and allowed students to download Microsoft-DRM music but without any fees or limits on downloads. The service has gone down supposedly due to a few flaws, including the DRM which prevented tracks from being played on iPods in addition to being non-mac compatible.
I guess my question is what people think about a service like this, and if any viable and usable alternatives exist. Part of the awesomeness of Ruckus was that it was partnered with all of the huge record companies so it featured a lot of the major artists that invade the popular music conscience, in addition to having some of the more obscure stuff as well. Will we ever have an ideal internet-based music distribution platform?
Comments
About the only reason I used Ruckus was because they had some obscure indie bands in their lineup (stuff I couldn't find torrents of). That being said, there were many problems with it, ranging from the slow music software, the Bonjour service (something related to the DRM, I'm sure), some mis-tagged tracks (One comment said something to the effect of "This is not the right album"), some single tracks missing from an otherwise complete album, etc.