Non-windows stuff to do

Ian Monroe ian at monroe.nu
Tue Dec 11 02:24:19 CET 2007


On Dec 10, 2007 5:27 PM, Shane King <kde at dontletsstart.com> wrote:
> Ian Monroe wrote:
> > Well we're not violating the spirit of the license and once we
> > re-enable the track refresher (which tries to redownload the album
> > every two months) and put in links to amazon in the context browser
> > we're not violating the terms either.
>
> It used to be OK to cache for 90 days or whatever, but I think Amazon
> have changed their policy.
>
> Unless I'm reading the wrong license:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/AWS-License-home-page-Money/b?ie=UTF8&node=3440661#5
>
> "5.1.10. You may store a link for a product image included in Amazon
> Properties for up to 24 hours, but you may not store or cache the
> product image itself."

Yea they must have changed it. Oh well, we should be fine as long as
they don't complain. I suspect that Amazon is just being
fearful/protective of the record company copyrights.

> > Writing covers to the files has always seemed like bloat to me, I'm
> > not so worried about the amazon license issue though.
>
> It'd have to be an option, since people either love it or hate it. The
> fact that Amarok doesn't embed cover art means I need an external tag
> editor where I otherwise wouldn't.

Why do you need stuff embedded? If its for a device then it should
happen when stuff gets transfered.

Ian


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