Music Player Exasperation
I'm frustrated with the music players available for my N800 and home I'm just not getting something basic. First, before I go into feature issues, I'm using FLAC files. I've ripped my entire CD collection to flac on my LAN so I keep it lossless and want to copy those files to an SD card so I can play them on my N800. I do have a number of old time radio shows in MP3, but those aren't an issue. I've tried KMPlayer, but it won't let me edit playlists like it claims to. I'm using MediaBoxMediaCenter for now. I've tried UKMP and it doesn't do flac as is the problem with several others. I don't want much, but I'd like to be able to copy my flac files, which I know have all the tags in them, to the SD card, then play that album on a music player with the tracks in order. I can't remember the track order on my own and don't want to have to go through, each time I copy an album, and sort the tracks. I just want to be able to load a media player, say, This is the directory, be a nice program and add all the tracks, then have it play the album tracks in order. (It's a major pain to have to add each track of a symphony or all of Wish You Were Here, for examples, to a playlist EVERY TIME I start MBMC and in some cases I can't remember track order until I listen to it.) Is there a music player for the N800 that plays flac and is aware of track sequence for an album so if I have an album on the SD card, it's easy to get them to play back in order? I'm rather surprised I haven't seen that on the players I've looked at. Thanks! Hal ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Unzip utility for endusers
OK, perhaps I've missed it -- perhaps it's ready to bite my nose off while poking around Maemo. As a enduser, I can't find an unzip program that works with a single click to unzip downloaded files. Is there one? Or am I missing something when it comes to using it? Yes, there's unzip utility I downloaded from Maemo that apparently works at the command line mode -- it's got 5 stars (from some self appointed linux command line geek reviewers). However, for most end users stepping back into command line world is like purposely stepping in dog poo then walking over your living room carpet. I figured unzip would work with the native FileManager so that when I clicked on a zip file, FM would automatically open the file with unzip. But no, after installing unzip, when clicking on a file.zip in FM, I get to choose what program to use to unzip, without unzip being listed as a choice. However, from FM, I can select xterm and access the command line, and access unzip, but hey, forgive me linux nerds, virtually all end-users kissed their command line bye bye back in the early 90s... Is there some simple click and unzip utility for the tablets? Or do I have to walk thru the stinky side of linux command line to unzip a file? -- Always, Dr Fred C [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Unzip utility for endusers
It might help if you ask in a new and separate thread, since many people won't see this since it's replying to a music thread. Hal On Sunday 30 November 2008, Lake Stevens Dental wrote: OK, perhaps I've missed it -- perhaps it's ready to bite my nose off while poking around Maemo. As a enduser, I can't find an unzip program that works with a single click to unzip downloaded files. Is there one? Or am I missing something when it comes to using it? Yes, there's unzip utility I downloaded from Maemo that apparently works at the command line mode -- it's got 5 stars (from some self appointed linux command line geek reviewers). However, for most end users stepping back into command line world is like purposely stepping in dog poo then walking over your living room carpet. I figured unzip would work with the native FileManager so that when I clicked on a zip file, FM would automatically open the file with unzip. But no, after installing unzip, when clicking on a file.zip in FM, I get to choose what program to use to unzip, without unzip being listed as a choice. However, from FM, I can select xterm and access the command line, and access unzip, but hey, forgive me linux nerds, virtually all end-users kissed their command line bye bye back in the early 90s... Is there some simple click and unzip utility for the tablets? Or do I have to walk thru the stinky side of linux command line to unzip a file? ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Music Player Exasperation
Hal Vaughan wrote: Just a note to all who responded or are reading this topic: I've gotten a few responses privately, but it seems people are forgetting to reply to the list instead of to me. So far the best solution is that I wrote a Perl script to go through my entire music collection (which is all in flac, as I've said) and rename each file so the track number precedes the track title. It works for now, but there's still a deficiency in media players that it leaves open. just in case that didn't come up yet - Canola2 seems to be adequate solution sorting by album etc. using tags. Don't have any Flac files to test, but seems to work properly with MP3s. You can also create playlists that it seems to follow (not much testing on my part though ;) ). ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Music Player Exasperation
Hi, I'm the the developer of MediaBox. Thanks for your mail. The next version of MediaBox will read FLAC tags and sort by track number, so that you don't have to encode the number in the filenames. Your mail reminded me to make track number sorting work with FLAC properly. Regards, Martin 2008/12/1, Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 01 December 2008, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: Just a note to all who responded or are reading this topic: I've gotten a few responses privately, but it seems people are forgetting to reply to the list instead of to me. So far the best solution is that I wrote a Perl script to go through my entire music collection (which is all in flac, as I've said) and rename each file so the track number precedes the track title. It works for now, but there's still a deficiency in media players that it leaves open. just in case that didn't come up yet - Canola2 seems to be adequate solution sorting by album etc. using tags. Don't have any Flac files to test, but seems to work properly with MP3s. You can also create playlists that it seems to follow (not much testing on my part though ;) ). It doesn't read flac at all. I checked it out! (That's one thing I love about Debian -- so easy to install and uninstall a package!) Hal ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Music Player Exasperation
On Monday 01 December 2008, Martin Grimme wrote: Hi, I'm the the developer of MediaBox. Thanks for your mail. The next version of MediaBox will read FLAC tags and sort by track number, so that you don't have to encode the number in the filenames. Your mail reminded me to make track number sorting work with FLAC properly. Glad it helped! Overall I like the program. This one feature was a real pain for me at first. I wanted to take the soundtrack to Umbrellas of Cherbourg with me to listen to and it includes the entire vocal track to the film, so I wanted it in order and was having a fit trying to add the tracks in order. As I said, renaming them solved it. But if you add reading in FLAC tags and letting us sort, that's going to be just fantastic and I don't think any other players out there let you do it. Just an interesting note. When I had only one album loaded in and was trying to sort my tracks, I didn't see much to it, which was mainly because I couldn't do the one thing I needed. Once I added a number of albums to the memory card, including a number of old radio shows and a lot of pics (I had just grabbed an SD card that had been in a camera), I was amazed at how easy it was to flip through albums, find what I needed, and play that album. The same for photos. Thanks for the hard work on it! Hal ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
