Monday, June 18, 2007

Amazon's "Your Media Library" Sucks

Since I had a $15 credit from one of Amazon's Unbox promotions, I purchased season 1 of Arrested Development with the intention of downloading them to my TiVo to watch. Unfortunately, to download shows to your TiVo, you have to deal with Amazon's "Your Media Library".

To start off with, the interface is full of slow scripting which grinds to a halt on my laptop as I'm scrolling down through my list of shows. Next, there is no sane way to sort episodes of a season of shows to keep track of which one you want to download next.

The two sorting options are "date aquired" and "title". "Date aquired" seems to have no bearing on reality when you purchase a whole season of a show. The shows just appear in seemingly random order (the first four episodes in my list are 1, 3, 7, and 22). "Title" just keys off the actual title of the episode so it is equivalently useless.

I hope Amazon does something to improve this mess soon.

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