Upgrade to AWS for fetching covers from Amazon

[Martin Aumueller]

Hi,

On Thursday 10 January 2008, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to direct your attention to the following bug report:
>
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155257
>
> Apparently Amazon is going to switch off the current (deprecated)
> interface for fetching covers in March 2008. This would mean that
> Amarok would no longer be able to fetch covers. The reporter has
> attached a patch to the report; we just need to get a new ID for the
> AWS.
>
> Seems to me like we should release a 1.4.9 ASAP including this patch,
> or at least provide patches for the distro packagers.

Making a new release is probably a bit easier on us wrt bug reports: if covers 
don't work, we just tell users to upgrade to 1.4.9. But there is another 
thing I'd like to fix for 1.4.9: adding new media devices has become harder 
as the dialog does not pop up any longer if a new device has been found. A 
solution to that could be to just disable newly detected devices when 
cancelling this dialog.

For the future, I think it would be a good idea to handle cover fetching with 
a script: that way it will be easy to upgrade the cover fetcher independently 
of the rest of Amarok and users can implement their own strategies for cover 
fetching.