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Pymazon – Amazon MP3 Download Replacement

Monday, January 18, 2010

‘Pymazon’ is a replacement downloader for the Amazon.mp3 music store designed to be lightweight & fast.

Users of Amazon’s mp3 store will probably have yelled a “yuck” in the direction of the proprietary Linux downloader they provide, with 64bit Ubuntu users also throwing in a “whaddayameanno64bitversion??” for good measure.

This is where ‘Pymazon’ comes in – it replaces the official Amazon downloader with something more efficient, in both GUI and command-line based form.

Download/Install

To install ‘Pymazon’ in Ubuntu, you’ll need to do the following steps.

Install dependencies

  • sudo apt-get install python-crypto python-qt4

Download and install Pymazon

  • Download the latest .tar.gz @ code.google.com/p/pymazon/downloads/
  • Extract
  • Open a terminal session
  • Navigate to the extracted folder using the ‘cd’ command (sans apostrophes)
  • Install: sudo python setup.py install

Create Menu Entry

You can launch Pymazon in GUI mode using ‘pymazon –g’. It’s much easier to create shortcut to do this.

  • Right click on the ‘Menu’ applet on your panel
  • Choose ‘Edit Menu’
  • Select the destination for the Shortcut (i.e. ‘Internet’ or ‘Sound & Video’)
  • Create a new launcher using ‘Pymazon’ for the name and ‘pymazon –g’ for the command
  • For a slick icon try one of these @ rodoula.com/amazon-mp3-emusic-icons/

Image taken from project page


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