Comments on: Amazon MP3 Downloader: Bad News / Good News

By: Amazon News

Amazon News — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:45:46 +0000

Personally I think its a good news.Amazon MP3 Downloads is becoming increasingly popular in the MP3 download market. Amazon is perhaps the most popular online retailer of the world, and now they are looking into getting a share of users from services like iTunes.

By: Franck

Franck — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:26:11 +0000

The clamz package is now available in the Mandriva mirrors (contrib section).
I’ve just installed it and downloaded a whole album. Great !

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:25:03 +0000

Thank you Blingin2Mingin for posting about Clamz! This is especially helpful for Mandriva users since Amazon does not provide a Mandriva version of its downloader. Clamz came with a readme that explained several required libraries, all of which were found in the Mandriva repositories. After installing those first, Clamz compiled fine. The first time trying to purchase an mp3 album, Amazon kept taking me to the installer page no matter how many times I downloaded the (unusable on Mandriva) Fedora rpm. You need to download the .amz file, but it never gets that far because it keeps telling you to install the downloader first. Finally I noticed a checkbox “If you have already installed the downloader, click here to enable it in this browser.” Then it let me download the .amz file.

By: Blingin2Mingin

Blingin2Mingin — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:12:09 +0000

Anyone using a distro not covered by Amazons binary packages can check out Clamz it’s an open source command line alternative.

http://code.google.com/p/clamz/

You will have to compile it your self but I am running it on a Mandriva 2009 rig and it works like a dream.
just run it from the directory you want your mp3 files to be downloaded into. with the command.

$ clamz AmazonMP3.amz

By: Wm.A.Weasel

Wm.A.Weasel — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:54:18 +0000

The downloader installed and worked fine for me in Debian Etch, but after I used it I noticed all the desktop icons had vanished. I’ve run into this phenomenon before. All you have to do is delete the newest file in ~/.metacity/sessions, then kill and restart Nautilus.

BUT, when I went back to browsing, the machine repeatedly locked up so tight I had to hold down the power button to gain control. I uninstalled the Amazon downloader and four libboost1.33 files that it depends on, and it looks like the problem is fixed.

By: Phil Gomes

Phil Gomes — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:34:56 +0000

Struggling with this in Hardy. Big time.

By: dhasenan

dhasenan — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:32:46 +0000

Using debian lenny — almost gave up after the debian etch version failed (wanted to link with boost 1.33.1 but I could only install 1.34.1) and the wine version died a horrible death. Fortunately, the Ubuntu version installed and ran fine under lenny.

By: brian baggett dot com » Amazon Lovefest: Music store and S3

brian baggett dot com » Amazon Lovefest: Music store and S3 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:49:42 +0000

[...] Linux version. I just happened to learn this from reading Stephen O’Grady’s site where he mentioned it though it isn’t working well for him. For me, It works great. Thanks Amazon … [...]

By: Mike Dolan

Mike Dolan — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:58:13 +0000

Wow; how did they not email me about its availability – I complained in like 5 different emails. Awesome news – I’ll let you know if I get it working.

By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:20:01 +0000

Ah-ha. Forrest is right- chmod 777 on the .amz file gets me a ‘successful’ download. Well, sort of; it then says that the file is no longer available, presumably since I tried and failed to get it 24+ hours ago. I guess I need to speak to amazon customer support about that… :/