Upgrade to AWS for fetching covers from Amazon

[Ian Monroe]

On Jan 10, 2008 4:35 AM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> 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.

I already have such an ID with the current account. was that patch for
1.4 or 2.0?

> Seems to me like we should release a 1.4.9 ASAP including this patch,
> or at least provide patches for the distro packagers.
>
> Opinions?
>
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> Mark
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As far as Amarok 2.0, this might be a good use of QtScript. Give the
script access to the Meta::Track, the script returns a URL to
download, then Amarok could download the URL and handle saving it and
such. We could use the .desktop kde plugin system to find a script to
load.

I say QtScript and not Kross, since the advantage of Kross over
QtScript is that it has python and ruby support but launching an
entire python or ruby interpreter for this simple task (that might be
done hundreds of times at once) seems a bit much. The JavaScript stuff
is essentially already loaded as part of the Qt library.