Sunday, June 13, 2010

eMusic Rant

Apologies, I'm in a ranting mood, so what better spot than to come here and put in my 2 cents worth... After updating to Ubuntu 9.10 (I know 10.04 is out there but I'm waiting until there is Miro support for that...) my eMusic installer no longer was installed. So I go to get the downloader and I find out that they have a new version. Great! Only it doesn't work... all I get is an app that then I click on the "go to emusic" it sits there. Good improvement. Now I've gotta find the older version somewhere... or was there an open source fork that's out there... anyways I digress.

Gotta keep on topic with the rant. The download page for the Linux downloader reads as shown below:












So it looks like this download works with the 2.2.14 Linux kernel... now I hope you don't need that kernel to be able to use this tool... otherwise I will have to go back 5+ years to find a distro with that!

Oh and I can copy my downloads to iTunes and Windows Media Player! Great, no wonder this doesn't work on Linux! Oh well, as a software developer I can understand that features can break and it's tricky to support so many distributions. But come on guys you can do better!
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pwiddy said...

Well there's this other option: http://boykin.acis.ufl.edu/?p=97

But that's not quite what I was looking for.

Now here's something that works! eMusic/J works very well. Just brows with your browser, download the .emx file and open it with eMusic/J Download Manager and you are set.

Since you don't have you put your eMusic credentials in to eMusic/J now the question I have is how it knows you are able to download the files...? Is it by IP address? Hmmm interesting.

June 13, 2010 11:12 PM

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