Re: [Banshee-List] are amazon mp3 downloads working?

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Oddly, it seems like Amazon don't have a DRM policy (their music still 
claims to be "DRM Free") but the UK store's new "improved" interface 
limits you to 10 "authorised" devices for downloads from the Cloud 
Player (as well as forcing one-click purchasing and only supporting one 
download at a time in Linux!). I guess Banshee is still doing the old 
download mechanism, but Cloud Player works differently.

I've found some interesting artists on the Amazon store before now 
(especially over that Christmas period where they had thousands of 
freebies) but so far I've never paid for MP3s from them. As of the 
latest changes, I've now disabled the Amazon plugin and I *really* won't 
be buying from them in future.

Are there any alternative services that could be integrated to Banshee? 
I've looked at eMusic, but they don't seem to have a "no commitment" 
option, just monthly charges no matter how much you download. Oh, and 
something that isn't "US only" - this is the Internet, after all ;)

Thanks.


On 19/09/12 06:39, Kevin Anthony wrote:
> I had the same problem.  I think it has to do with amazons new drm
> policy.  Since when I used the old mp3 downloader from amazon it also
> didn't work,and the new downloader required me to authenticate my box. A
> workaround is goto your cloud drive and download your music one song at
> a time, then batch import it into banshee.
>
> Sent from phone
>
> On Sep 19, 2012 1:24 AM, "spectro" <spectro gmail com
> <mailto:spectro gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     A few weeks ago I purchased some albums out of the Amazon mp3 store
>     and banshee downloaded them just fine. Since last week that doesn't
>     seem to work anymore. I had banshee 2.4.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 and just
>     updated it to 2.5.1 without any luck.
>
>     You can try test this by going to the amazon mp3 store and try buy
>     the "Free Music from Rising Artists
>     <http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=dm_bb_artistsontherise?ie=UTF8&docId=1000655511&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=left-1&pf_rd_r=0TY7ZY7AK0NDXFQ804QV&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1394170622&pf_rd_i=163856011>"
>     album using banshee. Can anybody please try and let me know if this
>     works for you?
>
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