Christian Music Available in 7 Digital Canadian Store, But Not in Ubuntu One

[Les Lamb]

I wouldn't have thought of this as a bug, but I was told to report it as one by an Ubuntu developer.

The entire Christian genre is missing from Ubuntu One in Canada. Searching for popular Christian artists turns up nothing. I emailed the Ubuntu One team, and was told this is handled entirely by 7 Digital, and that my request would be forwarded to them.

I found out that 7 Digital does have Christian music available in their Canadian store (not sure if this problem happens in other countries), so I asked them why they don't make it available in the Ubuntu One store. 7 Digital replied by telling me they don't know, maybe I should ask the Ubuntu One folks. The rest of my correspondence with them after that was ignored.

[Matt Griffin (mattgriffin)]

Hi Les - Thanks for the feature request. The Canadian market is currently served by our World store. This store only offers music that is licensed on a worldwide basis. This means that customers will only be able to find independent artists as the major labels have separate licensing agreements for individual countries.

Eventually, we will open a store specifically for customers in Canada. When we do this, it will offer music from artists on major labels. We will also review the genres profiled on the store home page and will consider adding a Christian genre if it is supported by our partner (i.e., if they index their database according to this genre).

For now, I'm marking this as a wishlist item. We will revisit it when we're ready to move forward with a Canada-only store. Thanks again!

[Les Lamb (kernelles)]

Thank-you, Matt! Looking forward to this.