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

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… :/

By: Forrest

Forrest — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:25:04 +0000

It works great for me on my vanilla 7.10 system with Firefox 2. It didn’t work for me on my other 7.10 system with Firefox 3.0b3 though. I am not sure the exact difference but I think it is the differences in the Firefox download.

With Firefox 3.0b3 the .amz file is downloaded to the temp directory and set as read-only. Trying to load that file into the Amazon Downloader doesn’t work but if you change the file from being read-only it does. I think this is a “feature” as the downloader deletes the .amz file after you load it. I assume that is so you don’t try to download the album multiple times.

My first experience with it: http://adventuresinswitching.blogspot.com/2008/03/amazon-mp3-downloader-for-linux-is-here.html

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:08:09 +0000

Dude, I am so glad I did not read your blog about Amazon before I download a full drm free album, which I really wanted. It did work great for me. I installed it on my Kubuntu Gutsy. At first I noticed that the Amazon software wanted to do something with my default web browser. By default I had Konqueror, but I went to system settings under kmenue and chose Firefox as my default web browser. I downloaded a whole drm free album in seconds. As you can tell I am extremely happy :-P.

By: Brian L

Brian L — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:53:29 +0000

I had problems on Debian Etch 4.0, but eventually got it resolved. Two key steps: (1) make sure that www-browser actually loads your real browser, not lynx; (2) if amazonmp3 gets confused, blow away the contents of subdirectory ~/.amazonmp3. This second step was critical, and the Amazon tech support guys didn’t know to suggest it.

By: Andrig

Andrig — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:48:19 +0000

I had installed the Amazon MP3 downloader a couple of days ago, and had yet to try it. So, after reading this post, I thought I would try it out. There were a couple of tracks that I was interested in anyway.

Well, I’m happy to report, that it works perfectly for me. I first launched it from the Applications->Internet menu, and it started fine, and open a new tab in Firefox in the Amazon.com MP3 store. On that page, it gave me a congratulations for successfully installing the MP3 downloader, and gave me the option of downloading a free song. Which I was able to do successfully. I also preceded to purchase an additional track, and it worked flawlessly. The default download directory is even within my Music directory, so the tracks are automatically added to my Rhythmbox library.

All in all, I have to say, this works beautifully.

By the way, I am running Fedora 8, and I installed the Fedora 8 RPM.