On 14/11/14 17:28, Chris Walker wrote:
Hello,
Has anybody here tried to use Amazon Music?
My wife wanted to buy the latest Children in Need single but when she bought it, the store insisted she install their software on her machine, a Windows 8.1 laptop. I baulked at that as I hate companies that foist their software on you for no gain.
I emailed them and told them that we weren't going to be installing their software and that they should email the file to us. But I did it from my wife's email account!
Within a couple of minutes the phone rang. It was Amazon wanting to talk to my wife. I explained that I'd written the email and a couple of security questions - which I answered. So much for security - the guy tried to talk me through the process of downloading the file without installing their software.
I said 'What if I run linux?'. 'Not a problem' he replied. 'I run Ubuntu and I can do it'.
So I thought I'd have a go on my machine which runs Mageia 4 64 bit.
With the support guy still on the phone, I tried. It didn't download the file even though I'd clicked the option. It did work though if I selected the option to play it using VLC. I could then retrieve the file from /tmp so I could at least reassure my wife that she hadn't wasted her money, albeit only 99p. I then rebooted the box into Windows 7 mode and that did offer the boxes to decline the software.
After another reboot back into Mageia, I fired up VirtualBox where I have a copy of Xubuntu. That just worked and allowed the download straightaway. So does anybody have any ideas why the download on my base machine doesn't work whereas on Xubuntu it does?
As to your specific question, I don't know - sorry. More generally though, in the past, Amazon had a music downloader for linux which worked on old versions of ubuntu. ISTR that this was discontinued once they launched their cloud player. Now, I don't have any problems downloading music from them. Just buy it, then go to their cloud player, find what you've just brought, tick the tick box next to it and press the download button, and bob's your uncle - it's in your downloads folder. You can play or download from Linux just via the browser - no problem. Hope that helps.
Steve