On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Anne Wilson <annew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Anne, it´s not a player. Amazon.com charges one price per individual tracks, and a MUCH LOWER price for a whole album.
The sad truth is that you can´t buy a WHOLE ALBUM unless you use their "plug-in" which just creates a folder and downloads the files there.
Apparently all is to hide the URLs used to store full albums. Probably someone is worried about evil haxxors getting to know their md5sum used to name hidden folders where the full cds are stored, or something along these lines.
FC
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> >
> > Those are dependencies on the old Boost and OpenSSL. It needs to be
> > rebuilt for the new versions of both. And only they can do it because
> > it's proprietary.
>
> Yeah. I realise that. The reply I got from then said:
>
Is there any actual advantage in having this? I've bought mp3s from amazon
(and sampled them first) without using their player, so I didn't bother.
Anne
Dear Anne, it´s not a player. Amazon.com charges one price per individual tracks, and a MUCH LOWER price for a whole album.
The sad truth is that you can´t buy a WHOLE ALBUM unless you use their "plug-in" which just creates a folder and downloads the files there.
Apparently all is to hide the URLs used to store full albums. Probably someone is worried about evil haxxors getting to know their md5sum used to name hidden folders where the full cds are stored, or something along these lines.
FC
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