By way of an update to our earlier hands-on, we’ve been digging around Nokia’s Comes With Music service, and have found some rather big bands aren’t on there. To name but three: Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys and Oasis have no albums available to download at all. Oh, and while Radiohead’s EMI back catalogue IS there, ‘In Rainbows’ isn’t.Given Nokia’s promise that it’s focusing strongly on local bands, this isn’t great. It doesn’t appear to be the result of just focusing on major label albums though – a quick search turned up albums by independent artists like the White Stripes, Mr Scruff, Roots Manuva, British Sea Power and Nightmares On Wax. Archive stuff is patchy though – you can get every White Stripes album from Comes With Music, but only the last two from Roots Manuva.Nokia will presumably be filling out the Comes With Music catalogue in the coming weeks and months, and we stand by our earlier assertion that the service is slick and easy to use. But the fairly sizeable Franz, Oasis and Monkey-shaped holes may not be what consumers were hoping for.
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