Comments on: Report: The Amazon UK Mp3 Store On Linux… Actually a positive experience :O

By: reviewazon

reviewazon — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:11:07 +0000

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By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:24:42 +0000

Thanks for the information Rob, I’ve left a comment on your article

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:59:55 +0000

Hi,

I wrote to Amazon asking on their stance on truly open source initiatives. This would include allowing the possibility of downloading in the lossless FLAC format, or even opening up the client downloader.

Their response was surprisingly honest!

I’ve posted their response in an article:
http://linuxsoftwareblog.com/blog/?p=181

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:30:00 +0000

@lboy That’s pretty good, a lot of companies wouldn’t have replied or just sent a generic “sorry” message. They obviously had someone who was a bit knowledgeable and interested on the other end. Good to hear

By: lboy

lboy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:10:00 +0000

Oh.. I forgot to mention, I emailed Amazon support and got a quite helpful reply back saying I can install the 32-bit libraries and make it run. They also provided a link to a Ubuntu forums page where someone has provided a script.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:33:00 +0000

@daz Really? That’s a shame I was told you could download without the software so that sucks. Play.com is pretty good as well though, they have DRM free music too

By: Daz

Daz — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:58:00 +0000

Yeah I’m suffering without the x86_64 support and according to Amazon you need to downloader to buy whole albums.

I might just spend the extra cash and use Play.com where I can just use my browser

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:00:00 +0000

@Iboy Wow, you’re right! I didn’t even think of that, thanks for pointing it out. Is there some way to install the 32bit package on your 64bit system? I know people used to do it with Firefox a lot to get plugins working but I’m no expert as you can tell. I stick to 32bit mostly. I’ll add an edit to the article right now

By: lboy

lboy — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:46:00 +0000

No packages for x86_64

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:53:00 +0000

Thanks for the comments guys

@hezy You’re probably right there’s little difference between the Ubuntu and Debian packages. As I said in the article I doubt it’s Amazon who don’t want to sell worldwide, their infrastructure is already there. It’s legal issues with the record industry blocking them and like I said way outdated trading laws that were never made for our new networked world. They need to scrap them and start again but you know what governments are like it takes two years just to agree what colour the curtains in the cabinet office should be

@andy I’m usually a CD guy myself (make your jokes now ) but this has won me over a little, I don’t think I’d be buying albums for £8, I’d get the CD delivered free for that price probably. This is an interesting model though