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It keeps notifications about connected headphones out of the way. Useful for the modified transmitter daemon.

More details, please? It should work for cuteTube, don't know about other cases. How do you try to open the movie?

Would be great. I can't reproduce it anymore since the last fix, but I still suspect the thumbnailer. If you want to give it a try, I have just uploaded openmediaplayer-dbg to the repository.

Unfortunately it does. :c

Looks like you have already figured that out, but just in case: they appear in the artist browser, for example. You probably know them as "%n song(s)", but Transifex displays them this way.

Yes and no... Something like that happened to me a few times, but then I realized that I was covering the proximity sensor with a finger. ;)

Strange, I don't remember changing anything related and clicking still only brings the GUI up. Orientation lock (like in the status menu) and forced rotation (configurable in transitions.ini or the CSSU tool) are different things.

More details, please? What kind of file do you try to open? Where in the filesystem is it located? I think that files outside of Tracker's indexing paths could have problems.

Does not happen to me. Anyone else?

http://lyrics.mirkforce.net

Can you reproduce it every time, or at least quite often? Unless I learn how to encounter that bug, I'll probably need help from someone who has more bad luck than me.

I have experienced that only while streaming, so I can't say whether it's fixed for offline playback, but it seems to work for online.

A new version is out and I'll post a changelog for your convenience and to make this post even longer. ;)

• More reliable metadata fetching in "Now playing".
• Fixed keyboard focus in the lyrics editor.
• Modified playlist editing in the playlist browser to work in a similar manner to "Now playing".
• Disabed the progress slider in "Now playing" for the stopped state.
• Shuffle buttons are scrolled together with the song/artist list.
• Fixed wrong song count being displayed in certain situations.
• Fixed up/down shortcuts in some views.
• Updated translations.

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Is it possible to get Lyrics from the metadata?

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i got a suggestion:
search bar in portrait mode! and maybe it can show when camera button is half pressed? it can also work in landscape, but in portrait it is necessary because sometimes it's difficult to scroll 800 songs.
Best solution is to make something like in symbian (v5; ^3) in contacts, but as i said search bar shows after pressing something :)

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Is there a way to download lyrics to every song on the playlist simultaneously, not only to the song which is playing. I have over 5000 songs on my device, downloading the lyrics individually is so slow. :) And I have a little feature request; Mussorgsy-like album art and ID3-tag editing.

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I second that. An ID3-tag editor and cover-art browser would be very neat.

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Another bug, i don;t know if somebody already reported it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pq3KGLXYTE
Happend to me couple of times. Sorry for video focus (no, i haven't recorded it with calculator :P ) my n97 is screwed

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Do you have speedpatch/batterypatch installed?

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speedpatch only

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MAFW seems to support such metadata, but I haven't checked whether it really works. I'll look into that.

The camera button would be useful mostly for lefties. I experimented with pressing/swiping from the edge of the screen and it seemed pretty nice with long fingernails, but not so easy with short. I think I have to cut one nail and do more tests. ;) I guess an entry in the menu would also do its job, but that's two clicks away.

Currently no. It might be convenient, but wouldn't that have some impact on the lyrics server?

Whoa! But unfortunately that's all I can say... Does it happen only with "Now playing" window open? Beware, it usually stays in the background, so to really close it, go to the player settings and press "Save". But just like BrX suspects, something else than OMP might be the cause.

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I've noticed the same bug as you have, by updating speedpatch, and later batterypatch. I think that speedpatch causes the problem ;x

//EDIT

Hmm strange, after installing new version of OMP, problem dissapeared. :D

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This search button is also good idea but not in menu but just on top of the list song list, like "random" buttons in artis and album views.

BTW this bug video was recorded after today's omp update.

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How about adding at least some kind of "fetch missing lyrics" button?

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i dont get this...love this app but still facing too many crashes:(

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what is about changing the audio track an multi lingual avi or so on

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Hmmm, i was having battery drain. So i checked top and found that openmediaplayer was still running (even though I closed it). I had to killall it.

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Maybe it's good idea - for people interested in debugging - to modify Your openmediaplayer.desktop, to run scripp launching OMP from terminal - and checking error messages (while running, or after closing). That would make bug reports more information-filled ;)

Of course, even more can be achieved with -dbg package, which is already in repos (if someone missed this information).

/Estel

// Edit

I think, that there should be annotation to instructions about proper bug reporting - "using 'magic' batterypatch/speedpatch automatically invalidates Your report" :rolleyes:

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I think it's easier to simply open the terminal and type "openmediaplayer". ;) I use speedpatch as a fix for QtLockscreen's refresh delay and haven't noticed any negative side-effects, but if something is related to batterypatch, I probably won't be able to reproduce it.

I haven't even considered any fully automatic option. Maybe if I investigate the case and it doesn't turn out to be an abuse.

You can help fix them by providing as many details as possible, or at least some...

Nothing yet.

I tried to to fix it with today's release, but I don't have a way to check whether it works, so some feedback would be appreciated. The new version should be in the repository within a few minutes:

• Auto-connect when starting an Internet radio.
• Ask for confirmation before deleting a radio bookmark.
• Updated the Swedish translation (thanks to almehdi).
• Fixed a case where an empty item was being added to the playlist.
• Fixed copying new album art.
• Possible fix for the "100% CPU / staying in the background" bug.

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Your work so far has been great, and I thank you for it.

But in your future updates can you please focus on the current visual issues with this media player:

+ Space bar needed to pause track playing whether in music player section or not.
+ having currently playing track selected in either entertainment mode or car mode.
Thanks
+ Making the next and previous touch buttons work on the video player.

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@gidzz...how?

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Wow, great job! I really appreciate the effort put into this open-source replacement of the stock media player. I found a couple of bugs though.

Entertainment view and Car view don't seem to display text correctly for me. This is what I get: https://imgur.com/a/vrdJP. However, as I press the album art to toggle progress/playlist view I see the text during the "flip". I use the built-in maemo theme "Digital Nature"/beta.

As you can see in the last screenshot, the settings menu allows for horizontal scrolling, which looks a bit odd. Also, in portrait mode the swedish localisation of the checkbox about FMTX is wider than the popup menu (so the horizontal scrolling is in fact necessary here). It'd be better to make the checkbox label multi-line (if possible?).

A minor localisation issue: the swedish localisation of "Now Playing" is currently "Nu spelande", but in the stock media player the translation is "Nu spelas" (which sounds much better as well).

Finally, a feature suggestion: a song queue system and the possibility to queue songs in the playlist for playing. This is probably the most important feature I've missed in the maemo media player compared to desktop music players.

Again, thanks for this great FOSS replacement of the stock media player. :-)

Edit: For the record, I'm using CSSU (testing) and I'm on openmediaplayer 20111206-1.

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great job, thanks to not give up the fight.

i'm wondering does it possible to use the google-album-art-downloader app to fetch up the album art missing in our library song? also it could use to fetch thumbnail for the web radio in OMP...

futhermore, can you implement in omp webradio a search engine using mediabox internet radio plug-in

thanks

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The most important thing has been missed here, I am talking about checking newly added songs or videos. In the stock player yellow information appears when opening it after adding new songs, I meant:

http://fnatic.eu/up/1d69e.png

That function in OMP is missing.. After set OMP as default music player, I must open gallery to triger that check for new files. I think that is really important, and must be implemented.

@gidzzz: look at this :)

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Tell me when you experience those crashes, for example. If you point me in the right direction and I can reproduce them, I'll try to fix them.

Looks like it's an issue of the updated translation. It was "Överskrid FMTX kontrollerar UI" before and in landscape it did not require any scrolling. I don't know about portrait, I'll split it into two lines if the old translation is still too long.

It used to be "Nu spelas", but it changed with the updated translation (unfortunately, I couldn't say whether it was better, only that it was 100% complete and a few simple errors were corrected). I think I'll revert all occurances of "Nu spelande" then.

Can you elaborate on that? When I read "queue system", I think of removing songs from the playlist after playing them, but is that what you meant? Inserting songs after the current one? Appending songs to the playlist (instead of replacing them) when you open a song from a file browser? The last interpretation is a great idea, I can't make up my mind about the two former at the moment.

The check does not depend on the player, Tracker does it on its own. OMP simply doesn't show the notification, and in case you wonder, you don't even have to restart the player, the songs should be silently added to the library (but you can watch the song count or sometimes notice a list being refreshed).

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I have had a few crashes but when i have tried to reproduce them it seems to work fine which at a guess points to an interaction with mafw rather than a particular input.

But the real issue was i tried to add
"openmediaplayer >> /somepath/log.txt"
to my .desktop file the log was created but empty?
maby some sort of running log would be helpful?
and great work btw gidzzz

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So, do they seem completely random? Logs could give me a clue, but if that's a segmentation fault, I'm afraid that only in a fraction of cases.

The log file is empty, because OMP throws the messages to stderr, not stdout. You cane use "openmediaplayer 2>> /somepath/log.txt" to redirect the output.

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every time i search for lyrics i get"not found".. can u make it fetch lyrics from this site??? this site gets updated almost everyday
http://www.metrolyrics.com/

is it possible??and tks for your awesome work.. except the lyrics section everything is damn good.. keep up this good work

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They seem random however most of the times i remember them happening was after closing the stock player and switching to the open player.
That being said i have had omp crash when opening shortly after boot up i repeated the process but it didn't crash again could have been that mafw wasn't ready or something like that.

Also i cant remember if you said you fixed opening files from filebox or not but at the moment its broken and will split windows if you had the music section open (artist/albums/etc..) before trying to open a file.
however if the file was loaded with the stock player it will play fine in the open player

Thanks for the pointers on the logs will keep a constant one see if it has any useful information when i have a crash next.

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i always start OMP throug touching on the media player widget.70 of the times OMP tryes to open and imediately crashes.i touck the widget again and OMP opens normaly.

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The biggest problem with the old translation is that it's wrong :-). "överskrid FMTX-kontrollerar-UI" literally translates to "override FMTX-controlling UI", which means something completely different.
I think the current translation of that line is better, but if you want to save space you could replace "användargränssnittet" with "gränssnittet". I think that'd fit in a single line in landscape mode.

Sounds good.

If you wish, I could take a look at the whole translation file and change what I think sounds odd. Of course, that'd lead to the same problem as before, since you'd still trust a single person to do the translation...

Forcing songs (already in the playlist) to play after the current song has finished, regardless of the "actual" order (which would be either the song below it, or a random song if "shuffle" is set).

I'm used to this behaviour from the KDE music player "Amarok", which allows you to right-click a song in the playlist and select "queue track" (or "dequeue track" if it's already queued). Amarok also annotates the tracks in the playlist with their position in the queue. (Image: after the current track has finished, first Conveyer will play, then Overworld and then Radio Future. Then it'll continue in the regular order.)

I also like the "append tracks to current playlist instead of replacing the playlist" idea, though! It sounds fairly simple; a checkbox in the settings would probably be sufficient.

Edit: regarding entertainment view not displaying any text:
I tried changing the entertainment view QML into a simple scene consisting of only the "quit" button and a Text container, but it's still invisible. I tried changing the colorus to non-regular colours (in case the text was forced to be black for some reason), but it's still invisible.
I remember that in order to upgrade CSSU I had to install "qtquickcompat" version 0.1.0+0cssu1 (mp-fremantle-community-pr seems to depend on it), perhaps this is what causes my text issues? It's just supposed to be a dummy package though...

Edit 2:
I went ahead and went through the swedish localisation, and corrected what I thought sounded strange. (modified, diff)

I don't like the label for the "lazy sliders" setting, it wasn't very obvious to me what it does. I think changing it to something like "update playback while seeking?" or similar would be more descriptive.

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It happens to me too.

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When you get an email notification, the audio doesn't pause

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+1

ten chars

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About file system queue:
It works that way: you don't have to have some things in library, but you can add'em to your play queue

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Omp play always same songs in ramdom.
Is it a bug ?
When will omp will replace official media player ?

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I bet, that when it's beta it'll come to CSSU testing
When it's stable, it'll come in CSSU stable

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Ok i had OMP crash on me the other day and it was a seg fault
at the time i had an album playing and was opening the track list of another when i crashed (via Artists) as usual this was not reproducible
log is attached
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9302989/log.txt

If there's a way i can get more detailed logs let me know

Thanks again for your effort gidzzz

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Here you can find other lyrics servers:
http://gtk-apps.org/content/show.php?content=64837
maybe it'll help make more lyrics available

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Also noticed this... And if you start playing all songs in Stock Media Player and listen a couple and then close it (stops) and continue playback in OMP it starts going backwards in the list, playing all the previously played songs in reverse order... Weird, at least...
Hope it gets these "little" bugs fixed so I can replace "Osso" Media Player...

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It's a feature. ;) The playing order is determined when you press the shuffle button. If you want to randomize it once more, simply press the button again. Doesn't the stock player behave in the same way?


That would require reacting to a song being changed by quickly changing the song once again. Maybe it could be fast enough to be unnoticeable, but I don't like this solution, so I think I'll refrain from implementing that feature. Another reason is that I don't want to clutter the interface too much.

I don't know much about QML, so I'm afraid I can't help you.

Thanks, I included your changed in the latest package.

There's not much space and that's why I stick to short names. I'll only try to describe all options in the wiki for now, but maybe some other time I'll overhaul the settings dialog.


If you know how to use gdb, you could install "openmediaplayer-dbg" package and use the debugger to obtain a backtrace.

I found a place with a chance for something to go wrong, but I have not analyzed it thoroughly yet and I can't check whether it's really the culprit, because I am unable to make it crash even once.

New things for today:

• QML views update current position in the playlist.
• Added an option to append songs to the playlist when opening them from a file browser.
• Fixed multiple windows appearing when opening a file from a file browser
• Enlarged the settings dialog
• Some UTF-8 fixes.
• Updated the Swedish translation (thanks to FireyFly).
• New translation: Turkish by MysD.

The second point turned out worse than I expected, because selecting a file from FileBox opens a dummy window. OMP popping up each time a file is clicked might seem inconvenient when you want to add multiple files, but it's better than staring at an empty window. You can enable the feature in the settings window, by checking "Append opened songs".

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I've found a bug in omp
Sometimes I get lots of blank "album slots"
It'd be about 4 pages or more
Reproducibility is veeery low (1/25) so I couldn't make a log.
But I'll post the screenshots soon

EDIT: about the shuffle order: I've got a proposal of additional algorithms. They could be set in settings.

1. Code:

   ---

   Miliseconds % number_of_songs

   ---

2. (To be set by the guy which are used):
   Code:

   ---

   (day + month + year + hour + minutes + seconds + miliseconds) % song_number

   ---

% - modulo