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

[Samuel Gyger <samuel gyger at>]

The new Amazon Cloud Player is also online in Germany and Austria, 
which suggests it has changed all over the world (we're always the last 
somehow).

On Thu 27 Sep 2012 11:00:12 PM CEST, David Nielsen wrote:
> However step one in getting this fixed is collecting a Debug log and
> submitting a bug.
Submitting a bug yes 
(https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682707) , Debug Log not 
really as there is no realy debugging situation, the interface changed 
completely.

> I don't know if Amazon changed the service, they don't really inform
> us about such things but with the correct information we can at least
> begin to look at getting this working again.

The Cloud Player has some new Authentication Stuff and get's more 
serious about what and how it's downloading, Although I don't now if 
they changed the amz files. Some Comments on other Pages, suggest that 
just changing the UserAgent should do the job. 
(http://code.google.com/p/pymazon/wiki/HowToAmzDownload)
> I'm using Firefox 14.x on Ubuntu 12.04 and have a few things that might clarify the situation:
> 1. When I make One-Click purchases, I get the option at that point to download the .amz file, which I can do and open in Pymazon or Clamz and all is well. 2. If I DON'T download at that point, my only option is the Cloud Player. 3. To
> download in the Cloud Player, I changed my user-agent via User Agent Switcher (FF extension) to IE8 and tried a bulk (.amz) download. It still told me I had to download the Amazon MP3 Downloader, so I clicked on the download
>button, then simply cancelled the download. After that, I saw a screen that said, "when you've installed the MP3 Downloader, click on the 'Download Your Music' button", but the button was grayed out. BELOW THE BUTTON, there
>was a link that said, "'Download Your Music' button not working? click here." I clicked and it apparently filled in the right cookies for the download to go through and I did a full download!

If I open this file with Banshee, I then can download the files with 
Banshee.

Samuel