Upgrade to AWS for fetching covers from Amazon

[Dan Meltzer]

Bumping this thread so that everyone sees it again now that it's
become a big deal :)
On 1/10/08, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
> 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?
>  >
>  > --
>  > 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.
>
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