[nlug] Amazon MP3s

2011-10-19 Thread Jack Coats
For those of you that purchase MP3's from Amazon, they download '.amz' files to your machine if you want to get the MP3's. They seem to be xml for pointers to Amazon to download the real MP3's. In Ubuntu 11.04 Banshee is supposed to be fixed to allow downloading MP3's, but does anyone know a

Re: [nlug] Amazon MP3s

2011-10-19 Thread Robert Wohlfarth
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Jack Coats j...@coats.org wrote: For those of you that purchase MP3's from Amazon, they download '.amz' files to your machine if you want to get the MP3's. They seem to be xml for pointers to Amazon to download the real MP3's. In Ubuntu 11.04 Banshee is

Re: [nlug] Amazon MP3s

2011-10-19 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
No, as far as I know, it uses an Adobe Air application to download the MP3s. You can check on Amazon's website, they should support Linux, but I'm no expert. On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 15:23, Jack Coats j...@coats.org wrote: For those of you that purchase MP3's from Amazon, they download '.amz'

Re: [nlug] Amazon MP3s

2011-10-19 Thread charlie
There is an option when buying to save mp3 purchases to your Amazon Cloud Drive (unlimited size for purchased music). Then you can download the mp3 files directly (as many times/devices as you like), and keep a copy in the cloud for the online web player (browser) and Amazon MP3 player. On Wed,

Re: [nlug] Amazon MP3s

2011-10-19 Thread Jack
Robert had the right answer! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NLUG group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit

Re: [nlug] Amazon MP3s

2011-10-19 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
An additional option would to look up pinning on debian based systems like Ubuntu so you could selectively upgrade parts of the OS to install those newer things. - Original Message - Robert had the right answer! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [nlug] Amazon MP3s

2011-10-19 Thread Jack
Yep, Robert had the right answer. The initial install needed another package that failed to add, but otherwise it went smooth. But the downloader seems to be working now. :) Thanks again. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NLUG group. To post to this