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

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2011/11/9 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

Amazon changed the amz format, you need to be on at least 2.2.1 for
the amz downloading to work.