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Feature request #443: REQUEST: Keep "Buy from Amazon" link active after adding art to iTunes

Kind feature request
Product Synergy
When Created , updated
Status open
Reporter Jeff Shepherd
Tags no tags

Description

When you have added artwork to the iTunes track, the "Buy from Amazon" link goes inactive. Well, I don't know what keeps it from going active, but there are times when it was active, but then I add more track information and/or artwork and then it goes dim. I'd like it to stay active. I get lots of MP3s from SxSW or off the web or MySpace or whatever. But if I have a track I like there are times I want to purchase the rest of the album. It would be handy to have the menu item stay active.

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  1. Greg Hurrell

    Thanks for the report, Jeff.

    There are really two parts to this problem:

    1. Firstly, the next time you play the track after adding the art to iTunes, Synergy will ask iTunes for the art and if it finds it it obviously won't even bother to ask Amazon about it and so the menu item will remain dim. This will be fairly hard to fix because it will require a new option to be added (which users can use to force Synergy to query Amazon for "buy now" info even when art is already present in iTunes) and some reworking of the underlying logic.

    2. Secondly, in cases where it has previously asked Amazon about the art and has stored a "buy now" link in the property list on the disk, the menu item should be active. I am not looking at the code right now so I am not sure if this is the way it works or not. If it doesn't work like that then it should be fairly trivial to change it.

    So problem "2", if present, should be fairly easy to fix. Problem "1" is not so tractable and an alternative might be to unghost the menu item in those cases and instead of actively searching Amazon in the background, only do a search on demand (when the user actually selects the menu item). This is probably the approach I prefer seeing as it will reduce unnecessary hits on the Amazon webserver.

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