Banshee Geo Ip detection for Amazon Store Defaults to U.S.

[Michael Devenish]

Binary package hint: banshee

When I click on the Amazon MP3 store in Banshee (maverick and natty live USB 22 Jan 2011 daily build ) it goes to the U.S. store instead of the U.K. store (I'm in the U.K.). If I right click on Amazon MP3 store and select preferences, it shows Automatic (Geo IP detection) but this doesn't work. It is easy to work around by changing from Automatic to Amazon UK , but it would be better if the Geo IP detection worked.

Note that if RhythmBox is also using Geo IP detection, this seems to work as it always directs me to the Ubuntu One UK store (I've only used this on Maverick).

Please let me know if any further information is required.

Thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: banshee 1.9.1-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 22 16:24:38 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110122)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_AG.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: banshee

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

I think the geoip bits are actually not in Banshee's source tree, but some service running on a machine maintained by the upstream author. So I'm marking this bug invalid on ubuntu/banshee, but I've forwarded the bug upstream so that it can be fixed on their side and tracked here.

[Bertrand Lorentz (bertrand-lorentz)]

I just committed a fix for this, and pushed the new version to the server handling the redirection.
So the fix should be effective immediately. Could you confirm that automatic country detection now works for you ?

[Michael Devenish (mdevenish)]

Hi Bertrand,

I confirm that the automatic country detection (Geo IP) is now working for me. I've tested on 2 machines running Maverick and on today's Natty live USB version and all work (automatically goes to the Amazon UK store).

Thanks for this.