[ale] amazon downloader for Linux

[William Witt]

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 17:59 -0500, Jim Philips wrote:
> I have been doing this for several years, since iTunes is not exactly
> friendly to Linux. The Ubuntu version of the downloader is way out of
> date at 9.04. It won't work on anything later without lots of insane
> tweaks. There is now a tool called clamz that allows you to work
> around that. I *never* do anything that is iTunes or iPod.
> 
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Geoffrey Myers
> <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>         Was looking at purchasing an mp3 album from amazon.com and it
>         popped up
>         with 'must install the amazon downloader' available for
>         Ubuntu, Fedora,
>         Suse and Debian.  Pretty cool.
>         
>         --
>         Until later, Geoffrey
>         
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If you're looking for something current, Banshee 1.8 and later will also
download albums from Amazon.  Additionally, if you purchase through the
banshee interface, the GNOME foundation gets the affiliate commission
from Amazon.

Will