Tracks heard on wazee now direct-linked to Amazon MP3!

[mosey]

I have spent the evening reintegrating Wazee with Amazon's web services, which stopped supporting the calls we were making to fetch album art and provide amazon links sometime last year.

So, album art for non-WMD tracks works again. While I was at it, I figured I might as well do the job right. I now do a pretty comprehensive lookup against Amazon's offerings. If there is an mp3 download available, the amazon link will go to the mp3. I hope everyone enjoys this, Amazon MP3 is my store of choice for music purchases and I can now instantly grab songs as I listen 

If there isn't an mp3 available, I do a search of up to 30 CD's by the artist for the particular track that is playing, and link to that CD if the track is found. (Amazon linking to albums never actually searched for the song before, just took you to an album by the artist.)

[don2718]

Pretty cool.  I usually buy my CDs used at a local place if at all possible, but still -- pretty cool!

[revenger]

good job 

[mosey]

You should also notice that the site works a bit faster now - I found a query relating to the current song display that was taking > 12 seconds to return and was using all of the server's processing power for every visitor to to the site. I have rewritten the offending query to take advantage of a table index that it always should have been using...it now returns in a few hundredths of a second. Upon installing the optimized query server load almost instantaneously dropped from ~100% to about 10%, so this should be reflected in responsiveness throughout the site.

[music_at_wrk]

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