Patch: Cover manager fix for 1.4.10

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 22 August 2009 19:46:40 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:07:28 -0400, Benjamin Johnson
>
> <obeythepenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > First of all, a disclaimer: Yes, I'm aware that 1.4 is no longer being
> > maintained, but I still use it, and I'm sure others do too.  I'm
> > posting this in case anyone else finds it helpful.
> >
> > After re-installing yesterday, I noticed the cover manager was no
> > longer working, and after exhaustive googling returned nothing, I
> > decided to investigate it myself.  Apparently this is due to
> > (another?) change in Amazon's API.  I noticed that the current Git
> > branch now uses last.fm to fetch album artwork, so I went in and
> > backported the changes to 1.4.
> >
> > THIS IS A VERY CRUDE PATCH (I just wanted something that could compile
> > and run).  It replaces the original Amazon fetching code, but leaves
> > in a bunch of unused variables and a few functions from the old
> > version.  The UI text still refers to Amazon, although Amazon-specific
> > functions (i.e. change locale) are now disabled.  If anyone wants to
> > clean this up or improve the code, please go ahead. :-)
> >
> > Hope this helps any other 1.4 users experiencing trouble.
>
> We could possibly send this out to package maintainers, in case they want
> to apply it to their packages, but I'd like to get some more people
> verifying functionality first (not that I don't trust you, it's just always
> good to test on multiple systems).
>
> Anyone running 1.4 that can apply this patch and let us know how it goes?
>
I have 1.4 under CentOS on one system.  If you can point me to a howto I'd be 
willing to try this if it helps.

Anne
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