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yes it plays via stock. i cudnt play any video with omp. it just loads without any dots.

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unfortunatelly I was right: such mp3s shown badly - 8bit encoding, Latin1, I guess.
But the problem may be not in OMP, as not just OMP affected: stock MP and mediaplayerwidget also. So I think this may be for example, trackerd crowler problem. What do you think?

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i have request: could "cue sheet" files (if available in the watch folders) be loaded and display that info in now playing window (artist, album, etc...)
there is a "cuesheet widget" doing just that, but can you somehow implement that future into omp???

it is good when listening to downloaded podcast, or live mixes...

maybe to put option to choose between lyrics and cuesheets to view????

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I've been testing OMP for a few hours over the last couple of days. It is looking very solid now! Obviously a lot of work has gone into it.

Thanks!

One trivial feature request:

It would be very convenient to have a "delete" item in the context menu of the "now playing" song list to delete a song from the file system. This functionality exists in the context menus of other OMP windows. When random play of all music brings up a song I don't really want on my phone anymore, I don't see an easy way to delete it. Going back to the songs list where the context menu does include "delete", doesn't select or display the playing song so I end up having to search for the playing song there in order to delete it.

I took a look at the code and it looks like it would be trivial to add this to nowplayingwindow.cpp after "Delete from now playing". I'd do it myself and send a patch, but my scratchbox is likely quite out of date at this point. (Let me know if you prefer I do my share and I will try to find time to update my N900 development environment and work up a small patch for this).

Thanks!

--Brad

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I don't know if someone noticed that talking on IM is almost impossible while listening to music from omp. The same thing is for sms, i think it should make silent beep when message is coming, not pause music and play sms/im sound.

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i think it should be optional,... but i think it is not possible without restarting a player.. (am i right???) :)

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totally agree... the system still needs a iron going over it.... although it does work well.

Loz

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this is normal feature of stock player and i don't see the reason why someone wants to listen sms/im sound while listening to music o.O

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do you know how often did i missed sms while listening to the music... allot!!! so i think that sometime it is necessary to have that future, and sometimes not ;) (depending on how user use his phone)

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there is a bug (don't know if it was reported yet) but when i tried to add a streaming radio station, i can't add mms:// stations (see http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...=mms+streaming and http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...6&postcount=10)

seems that the "add station" dialog only validates html:// URLs and not mms://

i can add it in the stock media player though, and playing it in OMP works flawlesly.

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I don't know how its happening but once I deleted almost all of fm stations and now whenever I add a new bookmark the existing stations are listed repeatedly (If I add one bookmark all station will be listed twice, if I add two bookmarks all stations will be listed thrice and so forth).

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Guys, how can i play a movie in fullscreen mode? is there any option to do that in omp?

d!

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Doesn't OMP play movies in fullscreen by default?

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Can we get a repeat one options for songs?
And can we get a function to add search results to active playlists or (random)play all search results?

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I mean the "Fit to screen" features, to have the video played without the black bars on top and bottom, if the video have panoramic aspect ratio :)


d!

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when i select a song from all songs. the song plays in now playing window but with the song of another name. when i click next. one song plays with another songs name. what to do? did anyone face this problem?

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Sorry for the late responses, I'm busy like hell. :(

I don't want to throw the buttons away and prefer the cover to be visible at all times. In my opinion, a better way to expand the playlist even more is to move covers to the top left, make them smaller, and fill the remaining space on the right with song info/slider/whatever. But first, I need to find some time to play with it.


I was unable to locate the exact reason, but I have recenlty tweaked the listing procedure, and hopefully the bug disappeared.

It's probably caused by adding a video to the bookmarks (only official player does that currently and displays them in the videos window).

I bet it's Windows Media Player's UPnP server, but I don't use Windows and don't know how to turn it off.


I can't reproduce it. Does anything happen if you press play/previous/next? Try running "openmediaplayer" from terminal and see if it spits out any warnings or errors after selecting a video (and also after pressing the buttons).


Quite possible. You can use "tracker-info /path/to/file" to display info from Tracker's database.


I'll place it on my maybe-todo list for now. ;)


I think I'll add it. It's simple copy-paste, so no need for a patch.


I want to add better control over these things, but I still have to figure out how to use libplayback.


Thanks, just fixed it.


I've been postponing repeat-one since forever, because implementation is somewhat hackish and I don't want to break themes (when adding another state to the repeat button).

I've already got it working, now I just need to polish it up a bit.

As far as I know, MAFW does not allow it.


Is there a relation between two songs being confused, or does it seem completely random?

There are 3 ways to determine which song is being played: listening to the actual audio, looking at the song info panel and looking at the playlist. Where is the contradiction?

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the song plays fyn with default media player. with omp. i select one song. it plays the song i select but shows the name of other song. that is the problem.

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How often does it happen?

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i just checked but its not happeing now. but it happened once. i rebooted but the problem persisted.

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Hi, I have use openmediaplayer since i have my n900 (about 3 month ago) and it's just great but is there anyway to block it in portrait mod, at least for the music option ?
Because if you use your n900 as audio player while you'r walking the screen keep rotating and it's quite annoying.

By the way i'm french si i hope it's understandable.

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I had similar problems with the stock mp. Guess it's a tracker issue.

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Do you think that the state of the development is close to puting OMP into CSSU?

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Just a suggestion: maybe omp should have an option of a 'log mode': log is saved anyway, on standard exit this would be deleted if someone wishes to
This would help to diagnose crashes

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Great work on this project guys. Overall it seems to work well.

Using Feb 1 2012 version from extras-devel:

The playlist view seems to not always register a long press (to bring up the context sensitive menu). In particular it seems to happen after removing a different song from the playlist. Sometimes when you try to long-press on a subsequent song, the menu never comes up, and so when you release your press, it acts like it was a short press and starts playing that song.

The "append opened songs" setting doesn't seem to work. I expect it to append the song to the playlist, but replaces the playlist with the selected song. Maybe I misunderstood what this setting does.

Can we have settings to remove the "delete" and "set as ringtone" options from the context-menus. I really don't see those as very useful and most of the time, I don't even want those options there in case I (or someone else) was to accidentally click them.

There is a slight difference in the UPnP browser in that on the stock player, if there are more UPnP servers than can fit in the window, it shows an icon you can click to get a full-screen scrolling list. It is a little easier to use than the horizontal scrolling in OMP.

In videos, if you select "categories" display, it is possible to click on the category titles and it looks like it tries to play them as if they were videos (enters video player and screen goes black).
It would be great to be able to set categories in the videos section. This is missing from stock as well.

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Hi guys ! I've just joined this community even though I've had my N900 for 1.5 yrs now !

First off , I would seriously like to thank the creators of OMP for its blazing awesomeness :P

But I have an issue that kinda irritating , dunno if its been solved cos I couldnt find it anywhere !
On the stock MP , the media sharing feature was incredibly handy for watching movies stored on my PC w/o having to transfer it to my N900.
But sadly , that feature doesn't work on OMP :(
Whenever , I click on an entry , it just gives the error 'URL not found' !

Could anyone please help me with this ?

Thanks in advance !

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just use orientation lock applet.
when you are on the go, just lock the orientation the way you prefer (either landscape or portrait)

it will remain that way for as long as you please

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Thanks for the advice but i have only landscape and auto rotation mod, no "portrait".

Any idea ?

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Feature request:
Is there a way to bring up the searchbar in portrait?

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I think that three biggest feature-wise blockers are: (1) differentiation between audio and video streams when opening a URL; (2) bookmarking video links; (3) support for libplayback (more control over what happens with music when the phone is ringing). Aside from that, there are bugs, bugs and bugs to fix. (2) should be easy. I'm uncertain about (1) and (3), because I haven't tried doing anything about them yet.


Hmmm... have I not answered to this before?


I think you got it right (see http://wiki.maemo.org/Open_Media_Pla...neral_settings), but It's only for mime_open, i.e. when using another application (like a file browser) to open a song.

I like it the way it is in the stock player, but there was a request to add more of "delete" and now there is a request for less, so it might really end up in the settings menu. For now, good news is that in OMP there's a confirmation dialog for setting the ringtone (accidents with this option in the stock player were driving me mad) and with today's update it's even easier to dismiss them. ;)

I was always wondering what happens in such case. :) Looks like I'll need to find a way to set up a quite lot of shares.


What software do you use to share movies and does music work? I remember having a problem with streaming, but it was in both Nokia's and OMP, and it disappeared after a restart.


If not http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=80644, then no idea.


Slide out the keyboard, but only partially (so it remains in portrait) and press a key. ;) Other ways are on my todo.


I've been poking various parts of the source, but I couldn't find a larger chunk of time for more focused development, so the changes are pretty scattered and spontaneous. I still did not have a chance to examine all of the reported bugs, but it's been over a month since the last update, so I guess it's better than nothing:

• Adding songs from a song list to now playing respects search results.
• Automatic and seamless refreshing of the radio list (probably also fixes the repeated stations bug).
• Removed context menu entries for clearing and saving the playlist in "Now playing", because they're already in the titlebar menu and they're more global than contextual.
• Added an option to permanently delete a song in "Now playing".
• Added a possibility to close confirmation messages by touching the blurred background.
• Lifted "http://" prefix restriction from radio bookmarks.
• Larger song progress font in the car view.
• Fixed clickable category names in the video browser.
• Fixed album searching in the artist view.
• Fixed searching being ignored if invoked before song listing is complete.
• Searching speed improved a bit.

Any thoughts about "Delete" in "Now playing" or the new searching behavior (when shuffling/adding to now playing/clicking a song, only the search results are taken into account)? Those are the main sources of my mixed feelings about this release.

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i like your application a lot
but i suggest some features in the next ver.
1 why dont you add cross fade option ?
2 the internet radio has no search feature , is there a way to add it ?
3 it keep freezing the device and the music keeps inturpting in the start of playing something then it goes better after that

thanks in advance :)

edit :
the app keeps crashing and close just after opening any song
but it can open songs from nowplaying playlist

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can v have symbian style playing in portrait mode.. swiping the song's poster(or thumbnail image) from left-right or vice versa to play the next or previous track??

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is it me or anyone else has the same problem with me?
everytime i select music, than select all song from upper menu..than select a song, it will force close....but if i select a song from album or every menu beside all song, it play well...
note: i'm using OMP build date: mar 11 2012

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Same here
it suddenly shut downs

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I'm sorry for the crash slipping in. An update is already on its way to the repositories.


1. Despite "Media Player" in the name, OMP doesn't do any actual playback, so it's out of the scope of this project. It has to be done on a lower level.
2. It will be there in the next update.
3. I can't confirm it at the moment. Does it happen (almost) all the time? I remember something like this occurring a few times, but only under high load, so I'm not sure if it's related to OMP.


Maybe, sounds neat. :)

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keeps shutting down
thanks for the fast reply :)

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The problem was only with "All songs", right? And are you 100 percent sure that the update has been installed properly? Version number is 20120311-2 and the build date in "About" window should be Mar 11 2012 12:10:32.

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yup, all feature work fine, except "all song"...build date: Mar 11 2012 01:12:23

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It's the old one. According to http://maemo.org/packages/view/openmediaplayer/ the update has been uploaded successfully, so you should try installing it. Works for me.

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work perfect....thanks mate