[SATLUG] Amazon's iTunes alternative for linux

[Jonathan Hull]

I actually got to try this about a week before it came out (I know
someone who knows someone at Amazon. *Shhhhh*).

I got it working by installing the 64bit dependencies so that the deb
would install with --force-architecture but it still would not run. I
then installed all the dependencies on a 32bit system and copying the
libraries over to my 64bit system which then let it run fine. A pain,
yes, but it works.

As for the program itself, I was expecting more. All it is a
downloader. However, thats all it was supposed to be so I shouldn't
complain. It does what it does very well (do one thing and do it
well). It is an improvement over downloading from the site manually
and a HUGE improvement for downloading whole albums. All in all I
recommend using it rather than iTunes if for the DRM reasons alone.

-Jon

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Daniel J. Givens <daniel at rugmonster.org> wrote:
> John Ziriax wrote:
>  > anyone get it to work on a 64 bit system yet? john
>
>  Yep.
>
>  http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id292205
>
>  Cumbersome? Sure, but it's what we've always done when there just
>  weren't x86 packages installable into the native x86_64 environment. Let
>  me know if you have any questions beyond the information there.
>
>
>  >
>  > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:48 AM, pixelnate <pixelnate at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> I was just send a bit on news from Eweek that Amazon has an MP3
>  >>  downloader for (DRM-free) music purchased from their store written for
>  >>  linux. They have debs and rpms for various flavors as well.
>  >>
>  >>  The article is on DesktopLinux.com: http://tinyurl.com/2berlc
>
>  HTH!
>
>  Daniel
>
>
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