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This is not a technical problem. Banshee is still able to open .amz files and use them to download purchased music. However this problem results from a decision by Amazon to unilaterally restrict all browsers with linux user agent strings from being able to download .amz files. Luckily there is one immediate workaround, and a couple avenues for further ...

When you buy the album, you'll get to a page with a final acknowledgment of the purchase. In that page there's a link ("download your music now") to an .amz file that you can open in Banshee. I haven't found (or looked very hard) at a way to get that file again once you close that page, but the method above should be enough to get the music in a way close ...

Steps 1-4 of the "quick and dirty workaround" work for me, too, in order to get the .amz file in the first place (on Ubuntu 12.10). But step 5 doesn't, at least for Cloud Player .amz files. Some posts suggest there's a difference between purchased .amz files and Cloud Player .amz files. Banshee (2.6.0) opens the .amz file, recognizes the tracks listed in ...

If you launch the cloud player (it's just a web app) and then find the music you bought, it can be downloaded as a file. It's way less convenient than having banshee do it all automatically, but less annoying than messing with user-agent strings in a browser. Note though, that if you try to d/l more than one track at a time, you get a message saying that ...

If you follow the link given by the OP, it appears that Amazon has now made official their lack of Linux support for the MP3 Downloader. Their new Cloud Player does have a 'Download' option, though it's not as full-featured as I'd like. You can only download one song at a time, even if you buy the whole album, and it does not give you the nice ...