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Old 02-03-2008, 05:32 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Amazon MP3 has been around for several months now. And it’s doing pretty good. Decent amount of press coverage when it hit the stage. Decent song selection, all with decent sound quality. And just about everything is decent with the all-DRM-free program Bezos & Co are touting out in the cloud.


And now the company’s gone and done another decent thing with is music download service: it has opened its doors to Linux users.
Indeed, the Amazon MP3 Downloader software bridge with which consumers are able to get their purchased songs off the Web and into their iTunes and Windows Media Player libraries, is now compatible with Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and OpenSUSE systems.


Chalk up among benefit to Amazon over iTunes, the Zune Marketplace, and a host of other music download venues currently online. While some in existence do cater to Linux users, none of the heavyweights of mainstream repute - apart from Real Networks’s Rhapsody service - provide Tux fanatics the kind of equanimity they have long demanded. Amazon has filled that void. And it’s likely to garner a great deal of praise for it. A look at the comment roll for this Digg submission sums up the response quite well.
http://mashable.com/2008/03/01/amazon-mp3-linux/

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Nice to see Amazon taking Linux seriously and making it easy for Linux users to access their services (unlike some company named after a fruit).
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Amazon_re...7296#c13277296
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Old 02-03-2008, 12:11 PM   #2 (permalink)
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whats the use of this ? Amazon MP3... bah humbug. I want Amazon Vorbis or Amazon AAC or Amazon MusePack, not Amazon MP3.
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This was to happen one day or the other.. Finally I can buy music from my Linbox ..

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whats the use of this ? Amazon MP3... bah humbug. I want Amazon Vorbis or Amazon AAC or Amazon MusePack, not Amazon MP3.
Even though MP3 may not have great quality compared to AAC or other codecs.. its still preffered.... why? cause its the format which is supported by almost all Music Players.
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Even though MP3 may not have great quality compared to AAC or other codecs.. its still preffered.... why? cause its the format which is supported by almost all Music Players.
But MP3 is bad , it has licensing issues , it is not open source ...

You can't possibly expect a true linux user to support MP3 do you ?
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