14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical has announced that the Ubuntu One Music Store has been removed from Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10.
This news is not actually a surprise. It's unclear how many customers are using the Music Store, but it seems that Canonical's decision to remove the store from Rhythmbox has to do with the traffic generated by the web store counterpart.
Not having to perform maintenance work on a third-party software is also a big plus for Canonical.
“The music store in Rhythmbox is operated separately from the one on the web, which means it requires a fair amount of additional work to keep it running smoothly. In order to make the music store better for everyone, regardless of what device they may be using at any given moment, we’re focusing on the web music store,” reads the official announcement.
Any purchase made on any of the aforementioned platforms will be uploaded to the user's cloud storage, instead of Rhythmbox.