[mb-users] ozon.ru and cover art

[Johannes Dewender]

Am Sonntag, 27. April 2008 schrieb Gioele:
> How come adding an ozon.ru HasCoverArt AR does not create the related
> "buy" and "info" links while and additional MailOrder AR do create
> them?
>
> See http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=8640695 for other
> details.

Didn't I write the exact reason in the edit discussion? You just can't 
derive one URL from the other, because they have nothing in common like 
an ID. There must be an internal ozon.ru database, that makes the 
connection, but WE don't have the connecting information unless we go 
to the page.

http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/2636907/ (release page)
http://www.ozon.ru/multimedia/audio_cd_covers/1000339623.jpg

There might be a connection, like a function you can apply, but I don't 
see one ad'hoc.

Technically we can make this possible. This would result in the 
following procedure:
We enter the URL of the release page.
Musicbrainz fetches the HTML-data of that page and parses the URL of the 
image.

However, doing that is somewhat more costly in terms of time than 
generating both URLs from one ID, like we can with amazon.

Compare in contrast these two URLs from amazon:
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B000BK8FH4 (release page)
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/images/B000BK8FH4

They look pretty similar, do they?


However there is still a bugs concerning ozon.ru: 
http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/ticket/3578
And we could also ask ozon.ru if there is a better way to match image 
and release, which would be good for the affiliate program.


Hope I was even clearer in this mail

--JonnyJD
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