Comments on: Official linux support from Amazon also in Europe

By: Brad Jensen

Brad Jensen — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:02:57 +0000

They make it a new FLAC store and they have themselves brand new customer!

By: Mark Sanborn

Mark Sanborn — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:46:18 +0000

Hopefully this is a trend that continues. I would like to see Netflix follow suit.

By: Jussi Kukkonen

Jussi Kukkonen — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:04:58 +0000

Michael, Amazon.co.uk checks your IP location so using a proxy in GB works fine.

Chris, the ubuntu package works on Lenny (correct dependency versions), if I remember correctly. By the way, do you have any facts for blaming “general suckage of linux packages” or are you just rambling? How could an operating system vendor like Debian have managed this any better?
As for “not amazons fault”: You know, it is a trivial application: they could just open the source and let the distro packagers do all the work for them…

FLAC would be a great choice for me as well, I’d pay extra for that service.

By: marcelo

marcelo — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:30:45 +0000

Vorbis? No, Vorbis is wonderful for portable devices, not for buying music.

FLAC is what Amazon should offer! That would allow users pick the music degradation parameters they prefer.

By: Landon

Landon — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:53:01 +0000

Would be nice if they would update it. I was able to run it on Ubuntu 8.04 but for a ‘novice’ I was not able to get it installed on Fedora 9.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:13:18 +0000

Isn’t the downloader only available for Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSuse?

I’m using Debian Lenny and couldn’t get it to work.

Not so much a fault of amazon but of the general suckage of linux packages.

By: Marcus D. Hanwell

Marcus D. Hanwell — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:55:19 +0000

Shame it isn’t an open source downloader too. Someone has even written an open source command line downloader called clamz – http://code.google.com/p/clamz/ – it seems to work quite well here on my 64 bit system with the US Amazon service.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:25:08 +0000

Can the amazon.co.uk service be used in other countries e.g. germany? The german amazon still doesn’t seem to offer this

By: Johan Dahlin

Johan Dahlin — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:49:19 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised if the relevant mp3 patents expire before resellers such as Amazon starts to care about Vorbis. Flac on the OTOH might be a sane choice in the not too distant future though.

By: otte

otte — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:33:44 +0000

Now if this were a Banshee/Rhythmbox/Amarok plugin…