Nokia Music
 

Read an article on ZDNet claiming that Nokia Music is now also available on the N9 in the US, but when I try to open Nokia Music for the first time, it asks me to choose a country, but US isn't an option. I spent forever on Google this afternoon looking for information about this, but with no success.

Was the article misleading, or is there something else I need to do? The author claims to have been using the service on the N9 and Lumia 900.

Re: Nokia Music
 

This has always been the case! Since the phone came out last year we've had a form of Nokia Music on it, it's just that no ever ever mentioned it. I tweeted about this in Nov last year. It's Aupeo powered. I'm in the U.S. too and selected the U.K for it to run. No problems we just can't purchase music for the most part...

Re: Nokia Music
 

Pardon my ignorance but is Nokia Music the same thing as the Music Store? I don't see anything called "Nokia Music" on my N9.

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Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of a Music 'store' if you can't actually buy any music? I could have sworn when I first bought my N9 that it had a US, but maybe I did select UK. But I know with PR1.3 it definitely does not have US on the list.

Stupid Elop is at fault, I'm sure.

slaapliedje

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You open music and go to store, and apparently there's meant to be some option for all the fun new stuff Nokia Music offers to the Lumia owners. But I can't get that far, as I live in a country that apparently doesn't exist.

Re: Nokia Music
 

Nope, I wasn't lying or misleading anyone. On the N9 it is called Music Store. I can login and access music I bought on Nokia Music on my Lumia 900. I can also stream playlists through the Music Store, but for some reason a few of them are not active. I would love to see it relabeled as Nokia Music, but at least purchases are cross platform.

I thought for sure I tried this before and it did not work and wonder what update gave us this functionality. Let me know if it still doesn't work for you.

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@orlac

Thanks for the instructions. It's working great!

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Became much interested in this as well when Nokia announced that Nokia Music will be available in the US. I'm also in the US and that country is not available on the list. I'm afraid, though, of choosing a different country right now, as it says you can't change it once you've made a choice (or is there a way to change it)?

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I just selected the UK. I can't purchase any music but the streaming has been working flawlessly.

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Well, I took a chance and just picked the UK since US isn't there.
Now, I guess I just don't get it. I mean... I see options to buy the music I want to hear, and to stream random music that I might or might not want to. Every article I read says this is an app to replace Spotify, but I don't see the option to pick an album and stream it for free. What am I missing?

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Okay, after stumbling across this thread, I played with the new music service on my N9. I live in the States, so the purchase service is at least partially crippled, but you can still download free music and listen to streaming music via the streams on the music store home screen and the free genre streams. I selected the U.K. as my country.

HINT: If you go to the search button and type in "free" you will get an album's worth of free tunes that ANYONE can download. Niiiiice. Feel free to hit my thanks button on that one.

HINT 2: You can get a free preview of any song on the service by hitting the picture of the song album, instead of the amount charged.

Hint 3: You can download a song and listen to a preview at the same time.

Hint 4: You may be able to buy the songs using the pre-pay service offered in the store. Hopefully, some brave soul located here in the States will get some pre-pay cash and let us know if that service works here. I suspect that it might, but I don't want to buy any music at the moment, so has anyone tried the pre-pay yet?

I did check to see if we could apply the music store UK£ to U.S. App Store purchases in US$, but it looked like a no-go.

The pre-pay option is accessed through the accounts icon in the store. If you prepay £20 or more you get credited with extra bonus money, thus free music. IF IT WORKS IN THE STATES, that is.

Final Hint: The song, 'You Can Be Happy' by I AM X was free for download by anyone when I was in the store earlier.

IF YOU FIND FREE SONGS IN THE STORE, PLEASE REPORT THEM HERE, SO THAT THE REST OF US WILL KNOW, TOO.

Take care and happy listening.

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Was this the zdnet article?

(Emphasis, mine.)

Nevertheless, I still don't find USA in the list of countries, and nothing from Nokia that confirms this either. I guess by "runs on the N9 here in the US" that could still mean: "if you choose UK as your country."

Anyone found anything different?

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Yeah, there is no USA option, so I choose the UK as country.

[QUESTION] Reinstalling Music Store
 

Hi Everyone,

By mistake or better to say by being naive i chose a very boring country for the Music Store on my N9. Since then, i've been wondering if i could change the setting somehow, but nothing came to my mind and i could not find any related info (please correct me if mistaken) on the forum. The application clearly states that once chosen the country cannot be changed, but now i wonder if the application itself could be uninstalled and reinstalled repeating the selection process.

Anyone have tried before? Any ideas?

Thanks a lot as usual!

Regards,

Me

Re: [QUESTION] Reinstalling Music Store
 

Have you searched the hidden folders in /home/user (or /home/user/MyDocs) for any relevant configuration file?

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Silly me, the config file is really there. I just deleted it and violá, i can reconfigure the whole thing.

Thanks a lot, here you see the difference between a developer and a plain user like me.

Regards,

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could you tell me what the file is and where i can find it?
thx

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Hi,

The configuration file is located in: /home/user/.config/Nokia/Morpheus.conf

Once deleted if you open the music store it will ask you again for the country you want. however after a few minutes it will say that it seems that the selected country is not correct for my country or region and it resets the location to the boring country where i live.

It may get some info from the Nokia account, perhaps.

I'll try to open a new Nokia account, activate it and relaunch the Music Store, may be then i'll have more luck.

Keep us up to date with your experiences. We may come together with a better solution.

Re: [QUESTION] Reinstalling Music Store
 

Try a full reflash (rootfs + emmc)

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@jmsarriat
Didn't know the music store config file was Morpheus, thanks for pointing it out.
I have the same problem as you with a boring store. Therefore I go for the UK one, which also includes Nokia radio...
So the only advice I could give you to bypass the pop up message saying it's the wrong country... Is once you run the music store, tap quickly on one of the top tiles (pop music or dance etc) it will go to the radio player and play some related tune. However it doesn't always work, message might pop up, close and do it again.... It really does work for me.
Try it and confirm.
Or if you or someone else has a better solution please help.
Thanks

Re: [QUESTION] Reinstalling Music Store
 

A Short update,

Experimenting today i realized that if the Nokia account is turned off the music store doesn't relocate to the actual country. I've enjoyed nonstop radio from UK ever since. The normal store does not work then, but you can always turn on the nokia account again. It may not be the perfect solution but it comes close.

Enjoy the music!

me.

Re: Nokia Music
 

I need help... I've chosen India as my country and once it loaded, it prompted that I was using the wrong region. Once I clicked continue, it defaulted to US and now I can't play mix radio...

Can anyone tell me how I can change the country to UK or something else on Music Store/Nokia Music. OR is there a way to "reset" the app and make it forget my selection?

Thank you!!!

Re: Nokia Music
 

just chose whatever countty it have..UK may be good. but then, nokia music server will detect your IP and reroute back to your truthful country..