Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Album art downloading and Amazon

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 19:13 +0300, Erik Houghton wrote:
> What are the plans for handling "album art fetching" from Amazon once
> the 15th of August passes?

What's so special about that date?

>  As I understand it, Amazon is going to
> require some sort of API account (?) or something of the sort in order
> for the art to be able to be fetched? Is there an alternative in the
> works, such as a plugin to fetch it from Last.fm? Just wondering,
> because in my experience Rhythmbox's ability to get it's art from
> Amazon has been very useful to me (CDDB and MusicBrainz have failed to
> find my music often), and one of the several key reasons I keep coming
> back to it as my favorite audio player.

I haven't heard anything about Amazon changing their ToS for this
stuff...