It is required for album purchases, and makes downloading songs fast and easy.
It automatically adds your music downloads to iTunes or Windows Media Player.
It takes just a few clicks and less than 30 seconds to install.
Old test results
The test results for this version are very old, and as such they may not represent the current state of Wine. Please consider submitting a new test report.
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
Does not work at all for me, either with direct program execution or trying to open the .amz file with the command line. I can get the program to start but it crashes shortly after. This is tested with 64 bit Ubuntu V8.10.
What does not
Does not work at all for me, either with direct program execution or
trying to open the .amz file with the command line. I can get the
program to start but it crashes shortly after.
What was not tested
the latest version of the windows downloader tested with 64
bit Ubuntu V8.10 and latest version of Wine (as of 12/30/08)
Additional Comments
not ready for prime time. Unfortunate because Amazon has some killer MP3 deals. You can still download 1 song at a time but this is a pain. They have a 32 bit Ubuntu downloader now too.
A Linux version of the Amazon MP3 Downloader is under development, and when released will allow entire album purchases. You can currently buy individual songs and download them.
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Agreed, Amazon is really thinking of all its customers
by Ryan Martinez on Saturday September 27th 2008, 11:51
Unlike other companies I know. I'm looking at you, Apple. You too, PlayStation Network Store. It'd be so easy to do too.
Linux version is out
by Forrest Samuels on Monday March 3rd 2008, 6:32
The Linux version 1.0.2 has actually been released. There are binary packages available for Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy, Debian 4 Etch, Fedora 8 and OpenSuSE 10.3. It is working great for me at the moment on Ubuntu 7.10.
Finally, legal DRM free music
by Ben Nemec on Thursday January 17th 2008, 19:01
I can confirm that downloading does work, even if nothing else about the app does. A couple of notes on getting it working:
1) I had to set the global Wine version to Windows XP or it wouldn't recognize it. Adding an application override didn't work.
2) I had to use a native gdiplus.dll or it crashed on startup for me (one of the bugs linked above).
Also, just to be safe I saved the .amz file (instead of directly opening it) in case something went wrong. The downloader actually deleted it when it finished, so it might be worth saving a second copy of it too if you're concerned about crashes (although I would hope that it wouldn't delete it until the download was finished).
Even better would be if Amazon released the Linux version (hint, hint...).
3 Months, no Linux version
by Linux User on Thursday December 27th 2007, 15:40
Seems like obvious vaporware to me... we should keep trying to get this one working in Wine (BTW, I'd be happy for Amazon to go ahead and prove me wrong here... any month now would be fine).
Is it a .Net app? That's the first question to tackle.
