Magnatune Integration: First Impressions

[Robert Morrison]

First the kudos. I'm really enjoying Amarok and getting a lot of
value from it. (Can I say how happy I was to find that Amarok worked
without complaint even though all the music files in my 'collection'
directory are set read-only?) Since I was already a Magnatune fan, 
I'm also getting value from the Magnatune integration. Thanks to all.

I just made my first purchase via the integration; here's my
initial feedback. (This is in Amarok 1.4.4.)

1) Tab order in the 'purchase' dialog is broken. (Tab out of the
'email' box and you'll see what I mean.)

2) The purchase dialog says "The amount you choose to pay
will be split 50/50 between the artist and Magnatune.com".
But I'm pretty sure that I saw somewhere recently that 
puchases made via Amarok result in a contribution back to the
Amarok project. So the user will have the reasonable question
"does the Amarok part come out of the artist's part,
Magnatune's part, or both?" And you may not want to get
into explaining all that in a dialog box. Which is fine,
but since money is such a twitchy issue, I think it's better
to be silent on the issue than to have incomplete or
incorrect info. You _really_ don't want people coming back
to you later saying "hey, you deceived me about where my
money was going!"

3) In the 'download' dialog, there is a text part that 
includes your password for re-downloading the music later
as well as some "share the music" text from Magnatune.
But as soon as you start the download, all that text is
lost. It would be better if it were retained somehow;
maybe a text file in the download location.

Uh oh. Just went to check my inbox and it looks like this
purchase was charged twice. I did bring up the 'purchase
album' dialog after completing the purchase (to help with
writing this email), but I did _not_ click the 'purchase'
button in that dialog again. So this may be a bug. (The 
CC info was still there when I re-opened the dialog; I 
exited Amarok and restarted, and the CC info was cleared.)

Let me know if I should open bugs for any of the above.
All in all, though, super work so far. Thanks!