flash on Linux, download mp3s from smile.Amazon.com, tar site recommendations
 

ok...

just went to amazon to buy a mp3 album. typically, i sample the songs to see if i want the whole album or just the song i heard on local radio. i have found many excellent albums this way.

that was then... this is now!

the sample player built in to the .html is probably flash. so, i'm 1). not sure if flash supports linux (adobe) and 2). i'm completely out of touch with tarballs.

so, is Amazon just gone for me now?
and...
if not, what is a good site to download a tar that supports flash?

'preciate it~!! :))
odin

flash on Linux, download mp3s from smile.Amazon.com, tar site recommendations
 

What browser are you using? Any extension?

I doubt that Amazon uses Flash to play these album snippets. I tried one album sample here and it looks like a HTML5 player is used. So any modern browser should support the playback.
By the way, your post does not explicitly mention that you can NOT play music on the Amazon web site. So what exactly is your problem? Try to give details and let people come to a conclusion instead of making assumptions.

If you're talking about the sample player on an album's store page, it works fine with Slackware's Firefox package out-of-box. No flash needed

The actual Amazon Music browser app is a different story. I sorta got it to work with the Google Chrome package from /extra It will log in and download music but not play it in browser. The app doesn't appear to be using flash at all, so I doubt that's the problem

firefox 45.2.0, no extensions
 

Tonus,

amazon.com is the starting point.

search for artist》mp3

then., the album... once there, there are songs listed in album order, a play arrow is to the left.

when I click on the arrow it spins but does not play. this is the point of failure.

could be a permission error, will chk /etc/group for audio permission.

Flash is dead (or should have been killed years ago). There may be one off sites that use it but I would avoid it at all costs unless absolutely necessary since it is a security nightmare.

And correct: Amazon music does not require flash - I have used their service to play music on both Linux and FreeBSD and I have never had flash installed.

Use your web inspector to dig them out. Or parse the scripts on the page with something.

This one.
https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Numb...0148088&sr=8-1

Not that hard.
Here is the mp3
https://d28julafmv4ekl.cloudfront.ne...290457_S64.mp3

If you notice they are time sensitive. &Expires=1580234611

And you need a generated sig
Signature=xxxxxx&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJVZTZLZ7I5XDXGUQ

I installed Slackware Current AKA pre-15.0 and I can play Amazon's audio snippets just fine without flash.

Very few sites require flash anymore (one that does is Xfinity streaming), because flash was such a massive vector for viruses it made the Wuhan wet market look like a bleach factory.

Install http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slac..._64-1alien.txz for slackware64-14.2 or http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slac...586-1alien.txz for the 32-bit slackware-14.2.

Thanks for sharing Petri!

Slightly off-topic. There were two nice stories about Flash recently. This is what happened after Adobe blocked execution of all Flash content on January 12, 2021:

1. As Adobe Flash stops running, so do some railroads in China. The story as reported is not quite true:
   Quote:

   Authorities fixed the issue by installing a pirated version of Flash at 4:30 a.m. the following day.

   Actually they installed an old legal Flash version from the archive.
   
   
2. SARS: Some taxpayers’ tax forms gone in a Flash

Both China and South Africa reacted by creating their own browser versions uncoupled from Adobe. China also created its own implementation of Flash Player.

For Amazon, when I did buy music from them, I used clamz to open up the *.amz file, but I thought Amazon broke that?

About what pirated versions of Flash Player you talk? Those are certainly lies.

In fact, the governments always receives the source code and build systems of the programs which they buy and use. That includes everything from the Adobe Flash Player to even Microsoft and its Windows 10 or whatever is next.

You can say that everything is open-source for states and their governments.

I believe that the Chinese government just modified themselves the received source code of this Flash Player to not call home and be locked, and distributed their own build. Probably same did also the South African government.

Now, is your choice to use, or not, a Flash Player maintained by the government of People Republic of China... ;)

Have your read what I wrote? The article I quoted said it was a pirated version, and I said it was not true.

I talked about that article. Those are certainly lies, because the governments does not need to use pirated software.