First of all, the obligatory disclaimer: Yes, I know Amarok 1.4 is no longer maintained, but I still use it, and figured this might be helpful for anyone else who still does.

After reinstalling my laptop the other day, I noticed the cover fetcher had stopped working. I couldn't find a patch on Google, so I assumed it must have been recent. I noticed the current git branch now uses last.fm rather than Amazon to fetch covers, so I more or less backported the changes to my copy of 1.4.10.

Anyway, the patch: amarok-1.4.10.coverfetcher.diff. Note: This makes some pretty extensive changes to the code, including removing all Amazon-specific functions. It appears to be stable on my machine, but I am not intimately familiar with Amarok's source, so there may be bugs.

Hope this helps any other 1.4 users out there

EDIT: The original link went down, so the patch has a new permanent home on SourceForge (including links to a few binary packages).

So what do I do with this .diff file? Place it somewhere or BASH it?

Thanks.

You need to manually download and patch, then compile and install Amarok 1.x using the patched sources.

Oh. That's going to require some study. Way beyond my current skills... THANKS! I'll see what I can do with it.

Hi There,

I'd love to go on using Amarok 1.4, since it works perfectly with my iPod Classic 120GB. Would it be possible, that someone applies the patch to the source and give us a link to the patched source, or even better a .deb file? Would be really happy if someone could help us out here Using the Coverfetcher Script downloadable as an Amarok script isn't any fun

Thanks

i tried to compile amarok myself and i failed it was very frustrating

it would be awesome if somebody could provide a build. a deb for ubuntu jaunty would be great

Hello
I have compiled Amarok with the patch.
and I tried it..
No covers found.. ---- what's wrong
After I rescan my collection .. I can fetch the covers,


Very strange . But great work


much thanks .. I will try to commit this patch to gentoo

Update:
If last.fm don't have a cover then the search dialogue will stay there with a waiting cursur thats not so nice.

care to share the binaries?

mael wrote:care to share the binaries?

Someone did: https://edge.launchpad.net/~bogdanb/+archive/amarok14

thanks, but i already switched to pana: http://pana.bunnies.net/