Amazon's Linux answer to iTunes is a winner
Are you a Linux user suffering from iTunes store envy? If so, Amazon has a deal for you.
While any good Linux media player, like my own personal favorite Banshee, will let you rip music from CDs, there hasn't been a good source to buy music online for Linux players ... until now.
As part of Amazon's latest MP3 download music offerings, the online retail giant is now offering its DRM (Digital Rights Management) free tunes for purchase to Linux users. Amazon is doing this by offering a new program, Amazon MP3 Downloader for Linux users.
Amazon is offering the program in both Debian's DEB and the RPM format. To make it easier to install, Amazon is including versions for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE.
I installed it without a hitch on the first three, but openSUSE gave me trouble. The problem was that openSUSE 10.3 does make it easy to install software with its revised Install Software command, if the software package is in a YaST repository. If you try to use an RPM package directly with Install Software all that happens is it starts to run, and then poof, it vanishes and that's the end of that installation attempt.
There are a couple of ways around this.
And: fsckin's got a review too with screenshots.
- Login or register to post comments
- Printer-friendly version
- 1524 reads
- PDF version
More in Tux Machines
- Highlights
- Front Page
- Latest Headlines
- Archive
- Recent comments
- All-Time Popular Stories
- Hot Topics
- New Members
digiKam 7.7.0 is releasedAfter three months of active maintenance and another bug triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.7.0 of its open source digital photo manager. See below the list of most important features coming with this release. |
Dilution and Misuse of the "Linux" Brand
|
Samsung, Red Hat to Work on Linux Drivers for Future TechThe metaverse is expected to uproot system design as we know it, and Samsung is one of many hardware vendors re-imagining data center infrastructure in preparation for a parallel 3D world. Samsung is working on new memory technologies that provide faster bandwidth inside hardware for data to travel between CPUs, storage and other computing resources. The company also announced it was partnering with Red Hat to ensure these technologies have Linux compatibility. |
today's howtos
|
Recent comments
1 year 11 weeks ago
1 year 11 weeks ago
1 year 11 weeks ago
1 year 11 weeks ago
1 year 11 weeks ago
1 year 11 weeks ago
1 year 11 weeks ago
1 year 11 weeks ago
1 year 11 weeks ago
1 year 11 weeks ago