Amazon Music Store?

[The Liquidator]

Anyone having success with Amazon Music Store? The downloader is for 9.10 but doesn't install with 11.10 due to a dependency problem. Any ideas of a fix?

I ask this because Amarok is moving towards an integrated Amazon Music Store - contained in the 2.5 beta. However, selecting a track/album currently launches the download page in a browser, but without the downloader you can't buy or download an album.

The Amarok devs tell me that an in-app downloader (a la iTunes) is expected for Amarok 2.6. My question is whether anyone is currently able to buy albums fro Amazon and if so how.

Many thanks

Ian

[Guest]

Re: Amazon Music Store?

An Amazon downloader comes with Banshee, and it works for me. Also, it looks like Clamz is still available, but I haven't used it for a couple of releases.

[ScottyK]

Re: Amazon Music Store?

I bought some MP3's through Amazon, and also ran into the same dependency problems. Had to switch over to Windows just to get the files.

-1 For Amazon not offering the latest Linux packages.

However +1 for at least thinking of supporting Linux

and additional +1 for offering DRM free music files, and at a reasonable price.

so overall I'm pleased.

[molgen]

Re: Amazon Music Store?

An Amazon downloader comes with Banshee, and it works for me. Also, it looks like Clamz is still available, but I haven't used it for a couple of releases.

I just installed clamz and was able to download a couple of mp3 tracks from Amazon. Running 11.04 64-bit.