Questions About Ubuntu One Music Store

[Ma Xiaojun]

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes at canonical.com> wrote:
> The store does not have stores for all regions, and in China
> you perhaps may be seeing the world store. The songs and
> artist names are probably translated in the store provider's
> database for the other stores.

Now I'm in US. So I have to see the English/US/World store? I cannot
change to another available language?

> Ubuntu/Canonical do not have any real control over the format
> the tracks are in. But, MP3 is the only format that does work
> absolutely everywhere. Some tracks are available in FLAC (and
> possibly other formats) from the provider, but those are not
> readily available through the Ubuntu One store, due to various
> technical reasons. You can choose to install the MP3 codec
> from within the Ubuntu installer when installing, and there
> are several implementations available for install in the
> standard Ubuntu repositories. I'm not sure exactly what
> difficulty you had which caused apport to pop up, though.

If you are really interested, you should try a fresh install without
MP3 codec pre-installed. And see how would Rhythmbox behave in this
situation. This situation is not uncommon because in some region the
country mirror is slow.

Now I'm in US and the us country mirror works quite well.
When I'm in Hong Kong, I note that hk country mirror is located in UK
and it is quite slow in Hong Kong.
When I'm in China, I note that cn country mirror seems to be a non-CDN
so it works well at most for users of certain carrier.
So please don't make the assumption that the user would download the
MP3 codec during installation.
In China and Hong Kong, Ubuntu advocate (including me) generally
advise people disconnecting Internet during installation. Because a
faster, non-country mirror can be configured later.