Bulk Amazon updates not working

[Robby Stephenson]

On Monday 06 November 2006 0:02, Izaak B. wrote:
> Updating music albums individually from Amazon seems to work okay (about
> a 75% success rate in my collection), but updating multiple albums at
> once has about a 2-5% success rate.  No errors are ever given, the data
> just doesn't change after the update progress finishes for each entry. 
> If updated individually it usually takes at least 5 seconds, where in a
> bulk update it doesn't wait that long, no more than a couple seconds per
> album - could this be a timeout issue?

Possibly. Each update is a separate request to the amazon server. But I 
haven't seen that kind of failure rate. Though technically Amazon puts a 
query limit, Tellico doesn't do any throttling. For albums, the artist is 
used if available, otherwise the album title.

> PS:  I would love to write (or find) some music import scripts for other
> sources such as musicbrainz, freedb, discogs, etc.

That'd be nice. They don't have to be c++, by the way. Tellico can use 
external scripts, written in any language, to import data, as long as the 
output is one of Tellico's recognizable formats.

Robby