Downloading music from Emusic with Emusicj

I recently decided to rejoin Emusic.com because their costs are far cheaper than others and they seem to have the music I want (most of the time anyway). The trouble is that their Linux downloader is difficult to find unless you know where to look but it doesn't seem maintained or so it seems.

What is often suggested on the forums, even by the moderators is Emusicj, which also seems to have not been touched for more than year. It still works and I was able to get it working on my Fedora15 (KDE) and Unbuntu (Gnome2) machines.

You need to have Sun Java 6 (or newer) for this to work. I found that after installing the downloader didn't work on fedora so I switched to open Java then back again and it worked fine.

You also obviously need an account with Emusic.com (various options) to download from the site.

Download Emusic from (a .tar.gz file) -

http://www.kallisti.net.nz.EmusicJ/Download

-double-click it and extract it into your home directory (I set up a folder specially for this in my home directory)

-navigate into the extracted emusicJ-linux directory

-click the emusicj file and in the dialogue that opens hit run. (if it doesn't, check Java settings).

If everything is set up right it should open and start running. Thats it, all done but now you need to have set up to work when you click the download buttton.

The next thing I did was to add it the main menu, but Gnome2 and KDE require slightly different methods.

Gnome 2 (Tried Gnome 3 and didn't like it!)

- System> Preferences>Main Menu
- Highlight 'Sound and Video then click 'New Item'
- For Name enter EmusicJ'
- For Command enter '/opt/emusicj-linux/emusicj'
- click the springy icon thing thing in the top left
-in the location bar in the window that opens enter '/opt/emusic-linux/emusicj.xpm'

This should give you the option to open emusicj from the menu.

KDE4

I use this on Fedora 15 which is on a faster machine and is therefore what I mostly use.

- Right click on the menu launcher in the left corner
- Click on 'edit applications'
- Highlight Multimedia
- Click add application
- Enter name and description
- For Command simply click on the little box on right and navigate to the amusicj folder in my case I simply clicked on '/home/***/emusicj-linux/emusicj'  (*** will be your user name)
- To get the icon simply place the curser over the area next to Name and description (on the right) and click
- add the same file as in the Gnome instructions
-click save and your done


Now go to your emusic settings and click 'turn on or allow downloader', this will enable you to download complete albums and make downloading much easier.

When you first use it, you need to click in the box the option to sync with firefox it will take you back and then click on download again. You now have music :-

Any up dates or alterations may appear as edits or changes to the main text.

I would also like to thank the person on the Ubuntu forums who posted a guide that influenced these instructions (sorry I forgot the name).