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Re: [LUG] Amazon Cloud player

 

On 11/07/13 08:45, George Parker wrote:
> On 10/07/13 14:00, Martijn Grooten wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:43 PM, George Parker wrote:
>>> Amazon has now changed it's mind.  It has given me 1036 songs I can
>>> download
>>> on Linux, but one at a time.  Select - download - select - download -
>>> yawn -
>>> select - download - is their any wet paint I can watch instead?
>> Swallowing your Linux pride and setting your user agent to make Amazon
>> believe you're using Windows seems to do the trick:
>>
>> http://www.mylinuxrig.com/post/40802845888/how-to-defeat-the-amazon-cloud-player
>>
> OK, installed a user agent changer and Amazon now thinks I'm running
> explorer 8. Unfortunately, I have never downloaded an MP3 file from
> amazon so have not got Amazon MP3 downloader installed. Amazon does
> offer to install the Windows version but I'm only fooling them, aren't
> I? So switch to Linux Firefox and try again and Amazon say they don't
> support download on Linux. I don't seem to be able to install from
> elsewhere or is there something in the Mint/Ubuntu repositories I'm
> missing?

You can install the Amazon downloader using wine.

Anthony
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