I’ve bought downloaded MP3s from Amazon on many occasions but was always annoyed to have to use their downloader so I was interested to find an open source alternative called Clamz in the Ubuntu 10.10 repositories. First install Clamz through Synaptic or sudo apt-get install Clamz if you prefer in a terminal.
Next, buy your MP3s on Amazon as you would normally, you will then be directed to a page telling you to download and install their downloader, assuming you don’t have it. Skip to the bottom of the page and look for the phrase “If you have already installed the latest Amazon MP3 Downloader, click here to enable it for use with this browser.” Click the link and now your browser should save the Amazon file in your Downloads directory.
As Clamz is a command line program you need to open a terminal and run the following command where ****** is the number sequence of the Amazon file.
Great instructions, this worked well for me.
However, now that Amazon has their “Cloud Drive”, one can buy music, save it to the Cloud Drive (for free) and download from the Cloud Drive.
Clamz works with the Cloud Drive, too!
In fact, you *need* Clamz for the cloud drive!