Amazon mp3 store works fine overseas, Linux album downloader soon.
Amazon’s new digital music store just launched in the US. Major label music that plays anywhere on any device, for 89-99c per track. 2 of the majors are there at launch, 2 are yet to come, but we found the new Kanye West album and that’s all that matters.
Non-US customers will be pleased to know they can buy and download songs just fine with their Amazon.com account - even if their credit card is from another country. Just enter a non-US shipping address (if you’re not from the US, try ‘AL’ as your state and 36310 as your zip). Amazon will quickly ship a fat box of nothing to the non-existent address, and let you download your mp3s.
Linux users can download individual tracks, and albums are on the way soon. According to Amazon: ‘a Linux version of the Amazon MP3 Downloader is under development, and when released will allow entire album purchases’. We’d prefer to fetch the album zipped via our browser, but the downloader offers a few more options that could be fun.
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September 29th, 2007 17:22
Yes, I tested it from Argentina and it worked.
See my review over here
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/09/26/linux-users-longer-excuse
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October 1st, 2007 21:42
You can’t buy from non-US countries any more. You will get the following message:
We are sorry…
We could not process your order because of geographical restrictions on the product which you were attempting to purchase. Please refer to the terms of use for this product to determine the geographical restrictions.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
October 9th, 2007 07:31
Could you write a tutorial on using GIMP to produce the image:
amazonmp3small.jpg
December 8th, 2007 03:26
I’m in the US, so I don’t know if the store works elsewhere or not, yet. I took a few minutes to create a firefox / IE7 quicksearch plugin so i could search the store directly from my browser though - and i love it.
January 4th, 2008 03:29
It’s JANUARY 2008 and where is the Linux downloader? Not anywhere that I could see. Shame on Amazon…
Just like I SAID, it’s taking forever
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/25/amazon-linux-downloader-slow-as-molasses