Re: [Banshee-List] Amazon MP3 Downloader required?

[Jeff Van Epps <jve24 lordbah com>]

On 11/09/2011 01:45 AM, Bertrand Lorentz wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Jeff Van Epps<jve24 lordbah com>  wrote:
> > Do I have to install the Amazon MP3 Downloader to be able to purchase and
> > download from inside Banshee directly to my library? Wondering because they
> > don't appear to have a 64-bit version of it.
> The Amazon store in Banshee does not depend on the downloader provided
> by Amazon.
> If you're using Banshee on Linux and are in one of the countries where
> Amazon offers MP3s, you should be able to purchase you music from the
> Amazon store.

I'm in the U.S. and have used AMS inside Banshee before, on 32-bit 
11.04. I thought that what I had done then was buy the downloads, they 
go to the cloud, I go to the cloud player from inside Banshee, select 
the items, click download, and Banshee shows the little import progress 
bar and downloads/imports them. Of course my memory could be wrong. Now, 
if I follow that path, after I've selected the multiple newly-purchased 
items in the cloud player and clicked download, I get a popup saying 
their downloader is required. If I try to follow it, I'm faced with the 
fact that they don't have a 64-bit version. If I try to ignore it, 
Banshee shows "Amazon MP3 Purchases / Contacting..." with a progress bar 
which cylons but never finishes - and cannot be canceled (clicking the X 
has no effect). The log complains about the .amz file:

[Warn  03:56:20.273] Invalid .amz file: 
/home/lordbah/.cache/banshee-1/temp/Amazon-MP3-1320828978.amz - 
System.FormatException: Invalid length. (in `mscorlib')
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) 
System.Convert:InternalFromBase64String (string,bool)
  at System.Convert.FromBase64String (System.String s) [0x00000] in 
<filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.AmazonMp3.AmzXspfPlaylist.Base64Decode (System.IO.Stream 
input) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.AmazonMp3.AmzXspfPlaylist.Decrypt (System.IO.Stream 
stream) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.AmazonMp3.AmzXspfPlaylist..ctor (System.String path) 
[0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.AmazonMp3.AmazonDownloadManager..ctor (System.String path) 
[0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.AmazonMp3.AmazonMp3DownloaderService.DownloadAmz 
(System.String path) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
[Error 03:56:20.273] Invalid Amazon MP3 downloader file - 
/home/lordbah/.cache/banshee-1/temp/Amazon-MP3-1320828978.amz

The help leads me to believe that this might be due to the fact that the 
files were purchased more than 18 hours ago.

Am I supposed to download only one item at a time from their cloud 
player (within Banshee)? Turn off their cloud player, i.e. do I need to 
be downloading immediately when each track is purchased?