amazon coverart - can we escape?

Seb Ruiz ruiz at kde.org
Sun Apr 20 13:25:53 UTC 2008


On 20/04/2008, Gleb Litvjak <blaster999 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 20 April 2008 10:00:08 Caleb Cushing wrote:
>  > would there be any way to escape using amazon's api for coverart? I can see
>  > where ignorant people new to linux who got an old version of amarok (1.4.7)
>  > might see amarok as buggy in that respect, if they didn't realize it was
>  > amazon that changed things on us.
>
>
> I just hd an idea: if there was some web script on amarok.kde.org that would
>  query the Amazon site and return the results, then amarok could query it
>  instead of the amazon site directly. This way if something changes the only
>  thing that needs to be altered is that web script.

The traffic would be huge.


>
>  Of course, cover fetching can be made scriptable (just like the lyrics).
>
>  Best Regards,
>
> Gleb
>
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