Not linking to Amazon Web Services

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.  Clicking album art blank before extraction, or "Search Cover Art" under 
CDDB.
2.
3.

How about the reproducibility (always, sometimes, rarely, ...)?  Always

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?  Expected search album 
art using Amazon Web Services. See "Your Accesskey ID is not registered for 
Product Adverising API.  Please use the Accesskey ID obtained after registering 
at..."

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?  
20130602(143.2).  10.8.4

Please provide any additional information below.  I registered with Amazon Web 
Services, and received 2 welcome emails.  Neither email contains any codes.  I 
generated an Accesskey code and Secret code on the AWS website, then cut-paste 
them into Preferences -> CDDB, and checked the "use Amazon Web Services" box.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pinep...@gmail.com on 25 Jun 2013 at 9:37

• Merged into: #116

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Seems to be similar to issue 116 and issue 149.

Original comment by tmkkmac on 25 Jun 2013 at 9:43

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I ended up having to register for the Product Advertising API separately.  Once 
I did that the art search started working with the same access keys I'd already 
entered.  I wish I'd got this working a while back - a very nice feature!

Original comment by pinep...@gmail.com on 25 Jun 2013 at 5:12

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Original comment by tmkkmac on 25 Jun 2013 at 5:20

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I was searching for the answer to this as well. I finally figured it out and 
got it working... unless Amazon changes their access policies and procedures, 
of course. Probably been answered elsewhere but since it isn't spelled out 
here...

1) Register for Amazon Web Services free basic account. Everything you need to 
do to get this working is free, but you do need a credit card to sign up 
nevertheless.  aws.amazon.com. You can use a current Amazon account.

2) Go to My Account/Manage Your Account

3) Select "Product Advertising API" under "Services You're Signed Up For" (if 
it isn't there--mine was the last one on the right--add it from "Infrastructure 
Services" under the "Services You're Not Signed Up For" heading).

4) Even though it is "already signed up for", you still need to actually sign 
up for it - so go do that. Click Sign Up on the top right and go through the 
rigmarole.

5) Once you have singed up for the serve you were theoretically already signed 
up for, go back to Manage Your Account & select "Product Advertising API". 
Again.

6) This time ignore the "sign up" button on the top and under "Resources", 
select "Manage Your Account"  [this is getting repetitive!]

7) Finally, under "Access Identifiers", select "Click here", sign in again 
(probably), and there is the page you need.

8) Select "Create New Access Key"; copy access key ID & paste into XLD's Access 
Key

9) Select "Show" under "Secret Access Key", copy & paste into XLD's Secret Key.

Done! Bunch of irritating, repetitive steps to go through but it works. 
Finally. I'm sure there is a more streamlined way to do it but this way worked 
for me.
Best of luck.

Original comment by pedrocon...@gmail.com on 6 Nov 2013 at 12:52

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I was able to create my AWSAccessKeyId and AWSSecretKey, but they still didn't 
work.  I tried to follow the instructions in Post #4 but could not find 
"Product Advertising API".

Original comment by kamran...@gmail.com on 28 Jan 2015 at 5:04

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Sign up for product advertising API at 
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/flex/advertising/api/sign-in.html

Original comment by tmkkmac on 28 Jan 2015 at 8:46