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June 24, 2009

OK, I'm not going to wet my pants over this, but here is an actually useful bookmarklet for downloading all the tracks on an Amazon Your Media album page.
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Drag that link to your toolbar and when you're on such a page, click it, and you'll start downloading the tracks available for download via the installer. Here is the normal javascript.

First, why? Well, my laptop was stolen and I had bought (because I'm honest) lots of amazon tracks, and they were nice enough to let me download them again. The problem being, many were single tracks, and the way you download them is to navigate to your Your Media section of your account; if there's a download from an album (even just one), to download the track, you select the album page, and then click the link. For multiple tracks, there are that many links -- hence, that many clicks; hence that many times you're forced to scream "FUCK" in a crowded coffee house. So, this takes the pain out, and opens them all with one click. Also, in the event you have only one or a few, you don't have to search for them, because (and I don't have an example, because they are al being downloaded as we speak) the link to click is either Download or Track Name, and they can tend to be hidden

OK, a few more notes.
  • It has to open a new window to start the download, so you'll be asked to alow popups from amazon.com -- so, do it.
  • This script waits 2 seconds between initiating the download, because if done one right after another, amazon thinks it has already been downloaded...don't aske me why?
  • After started the Download link turns bold and italic, like this: Download.
The downside is that I have many hundred downloads (and I'm just realizing this, seriously), and I'm not sure that, if they don't complete, or the internet craps out, I'll get another shot. I'll keep you in the loop.

Posted by jeff at June 24, 2009 04:00 PM