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The Liquidator
Apr 4th 2012, 11:36 AM
I hadn't bought an mp3 album from Amazon for some time due to its ubuntu downloader being stuck in a time-warp (9.10). An Amazon album store is promised in Amarok 2.6 but that's not here yet. Spotify is great for "try before you buy" and for buying individual tracks but not cost-effective for an album. Example a 24 track album I recently bought is £4.79 on Amazon whereas it would have cost £18.96 from Spotify.

After scratching around for a solution, I found one - pymazon - details and installation instructions are at:

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

Having used it to buy an album from Amazon, I am pleased to confirm it works.
JontheEchidna
Apr 5th 2012, 12:33 AM
I find that the clamz utility works well for this purpose as well. (But it lacks a GUI) As a bonus, it's already in the official repositories.
ScottyK
Apr 5th 2012, 01:35 AM
Figures. Just yesterday, I bought an album via Amazon, and had to boot over to my windows side just to download the silly thing. I really hate these "download manager" programs they make you use to grab it. UGH.
SteveRiley
Apr 5th 2012, 05:03 AM
Figures. Just yesterday, I bought an album via Amazon, and had to boot over to my windows side just to download the silly thing. I really hate these "download manager" programs they make you use to grab it. UGH.
Depending on the particular licensing agreements with the copyright owners, and the technologies used to enforce them, the downloader could be the mechanism that applies the DRM.