amazon coverart - can we escape?

[Laurent Baum]

Nikolaj Hald Nielsen wrote:
> Well, we have been discussing this for a while. Right now our best
> idea is to make the cover fetching run as a script and then allowing
> people to use different scripts. This would allow us to easily
> experiment with different cover sources. Last.fm seems to have a good
> cover fetching API, so that seems like one option wotjh pursuing as
> well.
> 
> All of this is for Amarok 2 though, as I doubt we will make such major
> changes to the 1.4 branch.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide at gmail.com> 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.
>>  --
>>  Caleb Cushing
>>
>>  my blog http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com
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I agree, I think it would be best to solve this problem by fetching the 
covers through scripts. People could come up with different scripts for 
different cover providers (amazon, wikipedia, last.fm etc...), serious 
devs would ideally maintain their script and make changes so it always 
complies with the latest version of the provider's API. Users could then 
go to e.g. kde-apps.org and download the scripts.