Can't listen to amazon.com song samples

[fairnymph]

I would like to listen to some samples of songs from an album I'm considering buying.

I flatly refuse to install RealPlayer.

Neither the amazon music sampler nor the windows media player options work for me. I have the stupid plugin installed for AMS (flip4mac, it's called) and I have WMP. No matter what I do, when I click on listen, I'm told that the plugin is not installed.

I am running Firefox. I also refuse to install IE.

Ideas?

 

[mkrishnan]

I won't install this, I won't install that... maybe the first idea is that you should attend anger management.

I'm pretty sure AMS uses Flash -- do you have Adobe Flash installed, or is that also on the list of things you refuse to do?

 

[fairnymph]

RealPlayer is a really terrible program, likewise for IE. Yes, I have anger problems.

I do have Adobe Flash installed.

 

[tempques]

First try this.

And then this.

 

[mkrishnan]

The AMS works for me in both FF and in Safari if I use spoofing. I looked at it more closely, and I have to apologize, now I'm not 100% sure what it uses or how it works. But it does seem to work.

Do you get the pop-up window at all when you click a listen link for the AMS?

EDIT: Also by the way, the WMP popup does seem to play using Flip4Mac on both Firefox and Safari.

 

[RGunner]

I concur.

I have always hated real player. Likewise, refuse to install it on any of our machines.

That said, I guess my answer is refusing to use Amazon... if more did this, then Real Player would no longer be supported by vendors.

Support someone else, there are other music stores.

 

[fairnymph]

tempques - I already installed the plugin. No dice.

mrkrishnan - Did you install anything, or did it just work automatically for you? What is spoofing? I do get the popup window, see below:

RGunner - Thank you! Unfortunately, this is a rather obscure group. I've heard ONE song by them and I love it, but I don't want to spend $9 on the album if the rest is crap, and I cannot find the songs on torrent or such.