I was wondering if anyone could help. I'm pretty new to Ubuntu and am having trouble getting Amarok to fetch CD Covers, i click the search button and nothing appears to happen.

I am running:

Ubuntu: 9.04
Amorok: 2.1
KDE: 4.3.1

I would be grateful for any suggestions.

This is due to Amazon having changed their API. We now get covers from last.fm, but the new Amarok 2.2 beta 1 is to be released later this week where this is already fixed.

Else you will need to ask your distribution for a patch for the current version which is 2.1.1

Mamarok wrote:This is due to Amazon having changed their API. We now get covers from last.fm, but the new Amarok 2.2 beta 1 is to be released later this week where this is already fixed.

Else you will need to ask your distribution for a patch for the current version which is 2.1.1

@Mamarok question regarding use of last.fm (running the 8/23 2.2qit). The behavior seems a bit different when using last.fm api in that it seems that if a cover is not found there's no ability to change the cover search string as there was when using Amazon, is this gonna be changed (or has it)?

thanks,

google01103 wrote:@Mamarok question regarding use of last.fm (running the 8/23 2.2qit). The behavior seems a bit different when using last.fm api in that it seems that if a cover is not found there's no ability to change the cover search string as there was when using Amazon, is this gonna be changed (or has it)?

It would be nice to have that back, but i'm not sure if there are plans to do so. There are still a few bugs with the fetching code that needs to be worked out in any case (if one job blocks, as it does for me, no more covers are auto-fetched).

lfranchi wrote:It would be nice to have that back, but i'm not sure if there are plans to do so. There are still a few bugs with the fetching code that needs to be worked out in any case (if one job blocks, as it does for me, no more covers are auto-fetched).

Is there a reason for the shift to last.fm?

Also noted that cover manager no longer has ability to display only albums without covers - will this be re-added

And like you cover auto-fetch is not functioning

The shift to last.fm has been talked about for ages, the Amazon code is a pain to work with and Last.fm has better covers. That said, the actual implementation isn't completely finished yet.

is there any chance that there will be a fix for Amarok 1.4?

Be lucky, that I've scrolled down to your post:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/7/31/2528003/Source/amarok-1.4.10.coverfetcher.diff
You need to apply the patch to the sources and compile A1 by yourself.

m0nk

i discovered the script "coverfetcher" which does the trick without compiling, but thanks anyway