Would it be a bad idea to create various sizes usng the following trick. I havent read all api stuff yet. Maybe its bad because its not directly amazon api supported and would break on api changes. i am not sure

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TilCfJyzL._SL160_.jpg

SL160 defines the image height, so if i put in 500, i would get a 500 pixel height image

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TilCfJyzL._SL160_.jpg

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rfay
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Title: Image size idea » Allow arbitrary selection of image size
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I had no idea... Do you have any suggestion that Amazon actually supports this?

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marcoka commented
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it works up to 500

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TilCfJyzL._SL500_.jpg

But as i said im not sure if that is an api cheat or an actual api feature. If i have more infos i will share them.

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Version: 6.x-1.3 » 7.x-1.x-dev
Category: support » feature
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That's really interesting, and yes it seems to be officially supported:

The sizes of the images under are specified by the _SLXXX_ suffix in the URL, where XXX is the number of pixels on the longest side of the image. A medium size image, for example, has 160 pixels on its longest side so it has the suffix _SL160_. This is the preferred way to reference images.

(see http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSECommerceService/2010-11-01/DG/RG_I...)

We can make that possible in the 7.x-2 version when rewriting major parts of the code.
If people are very much interested in this feature it might also make it into the 7.x-1 version and get backported to a 6.x-2 version, but then this needs to happen quite soon.

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marcoka commented

d6 would be nice too yes, agree.
im very interested in this module, helping out. But that will take some time. First i need to read all the module code/amazon api
At the moment its not possible to get MP3-Downloads. I plan on making a autocomplete widget for artist - name of an mp3 track.
i mean singe downloads like: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B001T115IA/

you need to get the asin by hand and put it into autoccomplete

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