{"id":5658,"date":"2011-03-02T21:02:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T02:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5658"},"modified":"2011-03-02T21:02:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T02:02:12","slug":"more-on-downloading-elbows-new-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5658","title":{"rendered":"More on Downloading Elbow’s New Single"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, before nine o’clock Eastern, I received an e-mail from HMV<\/a>. With the subject line “it’s on its way” (no capitalization), HMV was writing to tell me that Elbow’s Build a Rocket, Boys!<\/i> was in the post, and I should have it in seven to ten days.<\/p>\n

Naturally, I’m hoping for seven days. Delivery next Wednesday would be utterly fab. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Sunday’s blog post on downloading Elbow’s “Neat Little Rows” single<\/a> has garnered some interest from other Elbow fans. For the record, though I do appreciate some of you asking, no, I’m not going to share the files with any<\/i> of you.<\/p>\n

However, my instructions for how to get around the geographical restrictions on the “Neat Little Rows” single download may have been, quite unintentionally, a little cryptic. I tend to go from starting point to ending point, skipping all the little steps in between. Oh, I work them out, and I do them, but then I can’t explain them to anyone. I just go into this kind of dissociative daze where the mysteries of the problem work themselves out, and the solution, no matter how complex, becomes completely intuitive to me.<\/p>\n

So, after explaining in a few e-mails the steps to purchase the single from Amazon UK if you live in the United States, for posterity’s sake, here’s the one-stop shop for getting around Amazon’s geographical restrictions.<\/p>\n

What you need to do is to use a proxy server to convince Amazon that you’re in the UK.<\/p>\n

Before you do anything with a proxy, you need to make sure you have the Amazon Music Downloader installed, and you have to tell Amazon UK that your 1-Click address is in the UK.<\/p>\n

If you don’t have the former, download the music downloader<\/a>. For the latter, to the My Account page in Amazon UK, add a UK address (even if you just have to make one up — you’re not shipping anything there), and set that as your default 1-Click address. <\/p>\n

Now you’re ready to proxy!<\/p>\n

The proxy I used — http:\/\/daveproxy.co.uk<\/a> — isn’t currently up (and hasn’t been since Monday), and I can’t find another free proxy that works in quite the same way. Keep checking back; chances are the site will be back up sooner or later.<\/p>\n

(If you’re comfortable with changing the proxy settings of your browser manually, feel free. I don’t have any advice for you here.)<\/p>\n

Go to the proxy server in your browser. Dave Proxy lets you enter a URL. Enter http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk and, when the site comes up, search for the “Neat Little Rows” single.<\/p>\n

Click “Buy Now With 1-Click.”<\/p>\n

I don’t remember the exact order of steps here, so I’m going to describe two things that happened. Just keep these in your mind.<\/p>\n

The mismatch between my billing address and my 1-Click address caused Amazon to tell me that there was a problem with my address. Amazon should take you to an address page. Just confirm that your 1-Click shipping address is the UK address, and everything is good.<\/p>\n

Amazon also told me that I didn’t have the music downloader installed. I suspect the proxy layer confused its script. However, there’s a link on the page that says, basically, “Yes, I have the downloader installed.” If the download doesn’t start, click on that link.<\/p>\n

At that point, the “Download” box in your browser should come up, and tell the browser to open the Amazon file in the Amazon Music Downloader.<\/p>\n

The downloader will do its jiggery-pokery, and in a few minutes you should have the single. <\/p>\n

It took me about half an hour of experimentation to work through this Sunday morning, and ultimately it worked easier than I thought it would. When Dave Proxy gets back up and running, I can’t imagine that this will take more than ten or fifteen minutes. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Hopefully, this will tide someone over until next week, when Build a Rocket, Boys!<\/i> drops in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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