amazon mp3 store displays Ubuntu One "service discontinued" message

[James Shriner]

The Amazon MP3 store defaults to the Ubuntu One page, requesting login credentials. When credentials are entered, message is displayed about Ubuntu One service being discontinued, with options of how to retrieve stored files. I retrieved my stored files in April, when the Ubuntu One announcement was made. Since that time, I have been unable to access the Amazon MP3 store...I am being force-fed the Ubuntu One retrieval message and nothing I do will lead to the Amazon store.

I am using Banshee 2.41. on Ubuntu 12.04, installed from the Ubuntu Software Center. I have filed a report with Banshee, but they say the version installed from USC has been patched by Ubuntu to redirect the URL to a site that allows Canonical credit for Amazon purchases and, therefore, must be fixed by Ubuntu. I have filed a report with Ubuntu One support, who sent me back to Banshee, and finally to this site after learning more information.

PLEASE FIX THE PATCH that hijacks the Amazon MP3 store functionality and currently PREVENTS my access to the store from within Banshee. I have been extremely patient, waiting since April for this message to go away by July 31; it is now AUGUST and I'm still getting this message. I feel that I have been BEYOND patient, waiting for this to be resolved.

Will Ubuntu/Canonical be fixing this bug in a timely manner, or should I just install Banshee from a PPA, re-directing any credit back to the Gnome Foundation that Canonical might have received from their redirected URL for Amazon MP3 purchases?

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

Thanks for reporting this bug. This appears to be the patch which is causing the issue:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/banshee/trusty/view/head:/debian/patches/Change-Amazon-redirect-url.patch

I'm looking in to this now to confirm.

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

Sorry, wrong link. This patch:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/precise/banshee/precise/view/head:/debian/patches/0016-Change-Amazon-redirect-url.patch

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

Sorry about the delay. This is fixed in Utopic (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/1344763). I'll work through backporting the fix to the other versions of Ubuntu later today.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 03:11:27AM -0000, Will Cooke wrote:
> Sorry, wrong link. This patch:
>
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
> branches/ubuntu/precise/banshee/precise/view/head:/debian/patches/0016
> -Change-Amazon-redirect-url.patch
>

  duplicate 1344763

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

[James Shriner (hedon-james)]

Sorry for the duplicate bug report, as the referenced bug does indeed appear to be the same issue I am experiencing. Thanks for the acknowledgement and the movement towards a solution. I've waited 4 months...I guess I can wait a few more days for a fix to be backported to my versions of Ubuntu and Banshee. Thank you!