amz downloader

[Joern]

My girlfriend downloaded some songs from Amazon last week without need of IE or fiddling around faking her browser. She is unsure, but she used Firefox or Google Chrome right under Kubuntu :-)

One file only at a time, but for a small list of songs it's okay. 

Jörn


Am 22.02.2014 um 05:24 schrieb Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com>:

> Yes, the only way I was able to get some music I bought from Amazon
> was to download it onto my Android phone! and then move it from my
> phone to my hard drive via USB. Really unfriendly.
> 
> They want everything on their Amazon Cloud storage now, and only allow
> downloading one file at a time. Googling tells me that if you tart up
> your browser to appear as "IE" you can download right to your HD.
> 
> Valorie
> 
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:
>> Sadly it does indeed not work anymore as Amazon changed something on
>> their side. The other unfortunate thing is that the code on our side
>> is not maintained, and we might have to remove it if that doesn't
>> change in the near future :(
>> 
>> Jonathan: I have no idea how you managed to use it in Amarok recently,
>> as nothing is downloaded from Amazon anymore, they seem to have
>> abandoned the format for Linux, at least on the amarok.de site I don't
>> even get an amz file
>> 
>> Regards, Myriam
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Mark Fraser <mfraz74+ubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thursday 20 Feb 2014 13:54:33 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>>>> If you buy music from Amazon you get an obfuscated .amz file which can't be
>>>> easily used to download anything.  Fortunately Amarok comes with a built in
>>>> amzdownloader to fix that.  But it's hidden=true by default so you can only
>>>> use it from within Amarok.  Should we make it displayed in the application
>>>> menu?
>>> 
>>> Just tried it again on a couple of free tracks and after telling it to open
>>> the file with AMZ downloader and clicking on start, it just sits there doing
>>> nothing!
>>> 
>>> So, I would say keep it hidden as it doesn't seem to work.
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