Sweden is the latest country to get its own Nokia Music Store. The deal is along the same lines as those in other countries, with 10 krona per track, 100 krona per album, and 100 krona per month for unlimited tracks on your PC.
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Neat. Maybe I should check it out, although there has been very little music that catched my interest in the past decade or so. I'm quite content with replaying my old Queen CDs and similiar stuff.
Mycket bra!
I tried the site, but it only accepts WinXP/Vista, also it demands Explorer but thats a smaller issue since if you have windows you at least can chose to accept the browser demand.
Since I'm a macista I guess I'm out of luck for the moment. Are there any plans from Nokia to support OS X for this, normally they have good OS X support for there phones and syncing has never been an issue form me.
/JL
There was a good comment on the browser issue earlier here when the same store opened in another country.. something to do with DRM etc etc which makes it very difficult to support other browsers it seemed.
Regarding the browser issue, if Nokia's new music application gets NMS compatibility it will make the whole IE/FF debate irrelevant. But as Jaclu says, that still leaves the OS problem...
My issue wasnt the browser, life is too short for religioius IE refusals 😉
But what I find more disturbing is that they refuse OS X - I can live with installing a different browser, but being forced to by a new computer is stretching it. As far as I know no modern version of IE is running on OS X.
Also since Apple can run Itunes with DRM on both windows and OS X, it doesnt seem to be an OS issue, further since Nokia normaly plays nicely with OS X it seems a bit strange to be windows only.
Linux I could understand, but why OS X?
There was an earlier article mentioned, I must have missed that one. Was it about browser issues or OS issues?
regards /JacLu
viipottaja was referring to my previous message. I will repeat it with some additional info added.
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 Player 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)
*smooth (seamless) license delivery is done by some ActiveX process. ActiveX module is only for IE
With other browsers these issues have to be solved, otherwise the customer care load would be higher.
OS problem
There is a huge difference between iTunes being on Windows vs Nokia Music being on OS:
*Apple's system (store front, database, encoding, DRM) is fully produced in-house and is their own proprietary ecosystem. It is closed, but their engineers know the source-code
*Meanwhile Nokia is using Microsoft's DRM, where the DRM for them is a "black-box". Even if Nokia wanted to port the Windows DRM to the Mac. Only Microsoft is able to do that.
So don't blame Nokia, blame Microsoft for their DRM not being ported to Mac.
And as a last thought, Apple was forced to open up their DRM solution for other operation systems than their own, because otherwise they would have missed the majority of their potential iTunes customers using Windows. I guess even in the States the penetration of Windows is much higher than the Mac.
We can blame Nokia, because they freely chose to use Microsoft's DRM.
There must have been alternative systems they could have used which would have allowed the stores to operate independently of browser and OS.
@krisse
OK, give me one example of an alternative DRM scheme, with higher percentage of OS and hardware support than WMDRM (Windows DRM).