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Snarkout

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Registered: 2005-11-13

Posts: 542

Amarok magnatune frontend causes multiple purchases

There's a known bug in the magnatune music store frontend that causes you to purchase the album you buy several times. In the bug report I read reported the issue as "twice," but I ended up with 6 copies. My theory is that if you click "purchase" it caches that somewhere, and once you actually pull the trigger it dumps all of those cached clicks - this could be total crap though, it just seems about accurate for my case. I was testing to see if amarok/magnatune were using secure protocols by doing a fake transaction and running tcpdump -vv | grep protocol - turns out they're using https, FWIW.

This has been fixed, but not pushed out as far as I can tell.

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136665

The folks at magnatune (always cool) are aware of the issue and were very quick to set things straight, but if you want to avoid the hassle, just buy the music directly from magnatune for now.

Not sure how important this is to folks, but I figured that since it concerns actual $$$ people might want to know about it.  FTR, I'm not associated with either amarok or magnatune.

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dienadel

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Registered: 2005-12-23

Posts: 179

Re: Amarok magnatune frontend causes multiple purchases

Quite interesting. Thanks for the notice!