Amazon MP3 Downloader
Did you know that the Amazon MP3 Downloader runs on Linux? I didn’t. Generally, when I see a note stating that additional software is required on a website, I head for the hills figuring there’s no chance it will run in Ubuntu. Today, for some reason, I clicked to find out more about the “Requires Amazon MP3 Downloader” button next to the album I was looking at. Much to my surprise, they offer Linux support. Not the “here’s the source, good luck compiling it” kind of support, but rather the “here’s a .deb package, ready to install” kind of support. I was mighty impressed… for about a minute – the 32bit package is not a straight-forward install for 64bit users. Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to make the 32bit package work.
Of course, the fact that extra software is required to download purchased audio tracks doesn’t exactly thrill me, but it sure beats trying to run iTunes in Wine. The fact of the matter is that this is bare-bones, working software that actually runs on Linux:
Whether or not it turns out that tracks you have downloaded can be spontaneously deleted remains to be seen, of course 