GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 527994
Jamendo direct download (without Bittorent)
Last modified: 2012-03-28 22:27:45 UTC
Hello, I was wondering why the Jamendo plugin still uses the bittorent platform to download the album since it is possible to download directly the song desired on Jamendo's site. Presentation about the availability to download directly the song: For example go to an album page on jamendo's site (http://www.jamendo.com/fr/album/4203) You want to download the song "Interlude": clic on the purple-down-arrow and you are redirected to a page where your internet browser proposes you to download the song whom adress is : http://download5.jamendo.com/download/track/34248/mp32/47bc811e8a/Interlude.mp3 I asked Cassidy, the original developer of the Jamendo plugin about that possibility and he answers me that, at the time he developed the plugin, the only possibility to download the album was to use the torrents. Nowadays, it should be possible to use this method. With this method, I think it should be easier to download and add the song to the rhythmbox library than the bittorent method since there is not any Gnome module to manage torrents easily (from Cassidy) I think it should be very usefull and ergonomic to have a complete downloading method in Rhythmbox for Jamendo's songs Maybe we should ask Jamendo if we can use this method and if it won't charge their servers but, as we are already able to download a song from their site, it shouldn't be a problem I think... I'm not able at all to develop any line of code, so I just give my opinion in the use of Rhythmbox. Thanks for having read and sorry for the mistakes: I'm french Adrian Other information:
It still uses bittorrent because no one has done the work to make it use anything else.
But do you think it should be difficult to do it, and does any developer think that it could be rather interesting to take time to improve this plugin by adding this ability?
I think the solution might be easier that I thought. In fact, when you read the details of a song in the library, you can see the place of the file but it's a redirecting URL for exemple: http://www.jamendo.com/get/track/id/track/audio/redirect/35935 If you drag and drop the song into your local library you'll get an error like: Erreur lors de l'importation de la piste Impossible d'ouvrir le fichier vfs "file:///home/nanolight/Musique/Le%20Capharna%C3%BCm/Alone/The%20beast%20inside.com%2Fget%2Ftrack%2Fid%2Ftrack%2Faudio%2Fredirect%2F35935%2F" pour écrire : URI non valide. but I try to get it from the terminal wget http://www.jamendo.com/get/track/id/track/audio/redirect/35935 and it downloaded the song in my home folder. So the solution might be to "teach" rhythmbox to read the redirection and follow it to download it into the local library. What do you think about that?
The jamendo plugin no longer exists.