I spent some time tonight playing around in the Ubuntu One Music Store. I bought some music (yes, I paid for it, and I will continue to pay for music). So I grabbed a few albums for stuff I intended to buy on Amazon's mp3 store (except that their client doesn't support 64-bit), and started jamming away. The experience is awesome, and I'm glad that my music purchases are going to support Ubuntu (I may singlehandedly support it at the rate I bought music tonight...).

So I'm jamming out with my DRM free songs that I got on my free software OS, and am feeling pretty good. The only thing that would be more awesomerest than purchasing music from the Ubuntu One Music Store is to be able to put them on my Nexus One phone that's also kinda free software. Then my experience would be complete as comparable to the Windows/Zune and OS X/iPhone experiences.

Rhythmbox didn't actually like my Nexus One very much. It didn't recognize it as a media device, so if I wanted to put music on it, I had to use Nautilus or the terminal. Ew.

Turns out, I can just create a .is_audio_player file on the root of the SD card for the Nexus One and put the following contents into it:

audio_folders=Music/
folder_depth=2
output_formats=audio/mpeg,audio/mp3,application/ogg

Unmount and remount the Nexus One and voila! You should see your SD card in Rhythmbox and you can copy music over to it. My one wish is that instead of seeing 8.0 GB Filesystem I could set the label in Rhythmbox to be "Nexus One" or something really sexy like that.