amazon coverart - can we escape?

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

Well traffic is one thing, but really, if we start distributing this
data from our own site, we open up a whole new can of legal worms.
Right now, people fetch the covers, using Amarok, for their own
personal use, if we start redistributing them from our site, that is,
AFAICT a whole other scenario... ( IANAL and all that... )

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:51 PM,  <shashank.personal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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