Being a child of the 80's, I love listening to music I grew up with
Today while browsing Amazon I ran into some MP3 downloads for some songs I hadn't heard in about 20 years, the good stuff that I thought had dissappeared, I, of course, became very eager to add these songs to my collection.
When downloading individual songs in Amazon, no special software is needed, however, the Amazon MP3 downloader is needed to download complete albums.
They have a few Linux versions for Fedora, Debian, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu. The only version of Ubuntu they support is Gutsy Gibbon, which is two versions behind the latest, Intrepid Ibex.
Feeling brave, I tried to install the Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Amazon MP3 Downloader under Intrepid Ibex, unfortunately the installer failed, telling me that the architecture was wrong. The deb package available on Amazon is for i386, and I run the 64 bit version of Ubuntu Linux.
I googled around to see if there was a way to install 32 bit packages under 64 bit Ubuntu, I ran into getlibs.
getlibs is a script that downloads any missing libraries for any installed package.
In summary, what I had to do to install the Amazon MP3 Downloader under 64 bit Ubuntu was to get getlibs from http://www.boundlesssupremacy.com/Cappy/getlibs/getlibs-all.deb. Simply clicking on the link results in the package opening in GDebi, it should install without issues.
Once getlibs is installed, the Amazon MP3 Downloader needs to be installed, passing a parameter to ignore the architecture difference:
sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture amazonmp3.deb
This will install the package, it will be placed under /usr/bin/amazonmp3, however at this time it won't run properly because of missing libraries. In order to get the libraries, we need to run the getlibs script:
sudo getlibs /usr/bin/amazonmp3
At this point the application should be "good to go" and able to download MP3 albums from Amazon MP3 Downloads
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Excellent! Thanks for taking the time to post this.
Posted by Andy on March 04, 2009 at 05:10 AM EST #
Works like a charm! Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!
Posted by 97.100.140.97 on March 27, 2009 at 03:30 AM EDT #
Excellent 8.10 Ibex, Perfect!
Posted by Andrew on March 31, 2009 at 07:37 PM EDT #
btw - Your link for getlibs at boundlesssupremecy.com is broken. Readers can get getlibs at:
http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy/getlibs-all.deb
Thanks again for the tip.
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