My understanding is that those files are not audio files. They are used by the downloader to get the mp3s from the Amazon mp3 store. I don't know of any way to get at the mp3 files other than using the Amazon client to pull them.
-- Matt On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Colin McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anybody know if there's anything other than amazonMP3 which will > open .amz files. > > Despite what it says in the Amazon MP3 faq: > >>What does DRM-free mean? >> >> Digital Rights Management or "DRM" commonly refers to software that >> is designed to control or limit how a file can be played, copied, >> downloaded, shared, or accessed. DRM-free means that the MP3 files >> you purchase from Amazon.com do not contain any software that will >> restrict your use of the file. > > They don't seem to publish any details of the file format - and the only way > to buy albums is by using their binary only program. Since they have at least > gone to the trouble of porting the program to Linux (and producing a Fedora9 > package - I'm currently running Fedora 9) I was **even** prepared to use it, > but trying to install it turned up lots of missing dependencies - it seems > I'd at least need to install a large part of Gnome to get it working. > > C. > > > _______________________________________________ > Scottish mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish > _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
