amazon coverart - can we escape?

[shashank.personal at gmail.com]

hi,
maybe traffic could be reduced by caching , pre-fetching of cover-arts
for recently popular albums &  popularity data provided by last fm .
:)

Best Regards
Shashank Singh

On 4/20/08, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
> 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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Bye:
Shashank Singh