Let user decide whether to contact Amazon, etc. by default

[Vincent Cheng]

This bug was reported by a Debian user on Debian's BTS. (see http://bugs.debian.org/442286)

"I would prefer, if exaile would not contact Amazon (or
other servers) by default, if one plays music. Privacy
concers etc. come into mind. Would you mind having
"Attempt to fetch cover art from Amazon automatically"
unselected by default? Similar for contacting last.fm
or wikipedia."

To add to what the user has said above, I would welcome an approach similar to VLC, for example; on first run, VLC displays a "Privacy and Network Policies" dialog, and requests the user for authorization to access the Internet and contact external services.

[reacocard (reacocard)]

As mentioned in the debian report, this is more an ease-of-use decision than anything else. The coverart display is basically useless without an internet source (unless the user's collection is thoroughly filled with embedded covers or local cover files), and the cover display is used significantly in several places in the UI, so having it work automatically leads to a much better user experience. Furthermore, disabling the access is trivial - just disable the offending plugins. While some users might be embarrassed by it being shown they listen to Rebecca Black or something, that's not really a big enough concern to override the improved out-of-box experienced leaving it enabled allows, IMO.

I'll leave this bug open for the moment though, since I'd like to get more than just my opinion on here.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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