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sixwheeledbeast

2014-09-11 16:03

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

Quote:

Originally Posted by marmistrz (Post 1438910)

Btw. one of the other algorithms seems to go crazy recently. For example downloaded lyrics for "Skid Row - Monkey Business" start with

Code:

);var c=function(){cf.showAsyncAd(opts)};if(window.cfc();else{cf_async=!0; var r=document.createElement("script"),s=document.get

My providers order is: LyricWiki, DarkLyrics, AZLyrics, ChartLyrics

FWIW I do not have this issue with this song.

Lyrics providers.
AZLyrics, ChartLyrics, LyricsDB, LyricWiki

I have noticed a similar issue on another song but I can't remember which one now, I would have to search for it.

marmistrz

2014-09-11 16:25

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

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Originally Posted by sixwheeledbeast (Post 1438920)

Try redownloading it, it appeared recently.

sixwheeledbeast

2014-09-11 17:18

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

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Originally Posted by marmistrz (Post 1438921)

Try redownloading it, it appeared recently.

I just redownloaded it 5 times and only once did I have your issue. Very odd.

marmistrz

2014-09-11 17:20

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

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Originally Posted by sixwheeledbeast (Post 1438925)

I just redownloaded it 5 times and only once did I have your issue. Very odd.

Maybe the ad is being shown only sometimes

TomJ	2014-09-11 18:10

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

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Originally Posted by gidzzz (Post 1438914)

I have not looked into it yet, because I was quite busy for the last few months and it did not sound that serious to me, but finally this month I am planning to give OMP some love.

Then may I reiterate my feature requests from a bit upthread, lest you missed them while busy (and we all have real lives....)

Most important: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=1621 is to address a want in stock MP commented on from the earliest device reviews

More niche, perhaps; http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=1621 would be a real usability win in some circumstances.

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=1628

gidzzz

2014-09-20 17:42

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

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Originally Posted by TomJ (Post 1425156)

What the Mediaplayer has long wanted was a method of editing the order of tracks in playlists. Any chance of that being added to OMP?

See http://wiki.maemo.org/Open_Media_Pla...found_in_MP.29, the "Playlist editing" part.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TomJ (Post 1425406)

While I'm doing feature requests...
I imagine I'm not the only one who listens to music or podcass via Bluetooth or FM. To turn either on from the Now Playing screens takes a minimum of 4 taps (3 if you have relevant desktop widgets, but a further 2 are then needed to get back to Now Playing); would it be possible to add simple on/off buttons for BT and FM on any or all of the Now Playing windows?

I don't have a Bluetooth headset, so I don't know what it takes to turn it on, but enabling the FM transmitter is IMO pretty quick (thus not slow enough to justify a new entry in the menus).

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Originally Posted by marmistrz (Post 1433431)

It might be difficult to create an algorithm to handle this [1] doesn't have the latin alphabet part, [2] is case insensitive. And this is just a quick search. Although http://lyrics.wikia.com/Эпидемия redirects to the part with latin alphabet, the subpages don't.

Wouldn't opening the artist page and checking for redirections be sufficient? It's also possible to take the first search result returned by LyricWiki, but it can be risky (IMO no lyrics are better than wrong lyrics).

Unfortunately, those options require downloading 2 pages instead of 1. Assuming that the number of hits is significantly greater than the number of misses (including lyrics that really do not exist, not just those with mismatching artist name), the number of pages can be reduced to 1 most of the time by using the 2-page routine only as a fallback (but the worst-case outcome is 3 pages)

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Originally Posted by Estel (Post 1433450)

I've encountered a small issue with Internet radio streams handling. Every one need to be saved as "video", or it will won't work - even if we're talking about audio-only ones. The radio starts like video (black screen, etc), then moves to audio-only - if you pause it and try to resume, it won't work, again (due to being in audio-only mode, probably), and require being started as "video" one again, from scratch.

Cannot reproduce. Can you provide a specific example of such stream?

pichlo

2014-09-20 18:02

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

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Originally Posted by gidzzz (Post 1439851)

I don't have a Bluetooth headset, so I don't know what it takes to turn it on, but enabling the FM transmitter is IMO pretty quick (thus not slow enough to justify a new entry in the menus).

Just playing the devil's advocate, as I use neither MP nor OMP (I prefer Symfonie), but... didn't OMP claim to be a "drop-in replacement for MP"? MP has the FM transmitter menu item in Now Playing... ;)

Estel

2014-09-20 18:13

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

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Originally Posted by gidzzz (Post 1439851)

Cannot reproduce. Can you provide a specific example of such stream?

Sure, mms://stream.polskieradio.pl/program3 for a start.

But, I'm experiencing it with exactly 100% of streams I use (they work only if I mark the "video" button while adding them, and they won't resume after stopping, as explained earlier), so I'm quite surprised that it wasn't reproducible. Maybe it's just me and then, why? Could someone else could test it, too?

/Estel

gidzzz

2014-09-20 18:31

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

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Originally Posted by pichlo (Post 1439856)

Yes, but from what I understood, TomJ was requesting to add another button for FM transmitter, just to toggle it on/off, so it's 2 clicks instead of 4.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Estel (Post 1439859)

I entered "mms://stream.polskieradio.pl/program3" in MicroB, OMP popped up with the video window and switched to the radio window after detecting that it's audio only. Then I stopped and started playback a few times and there were no problems with it. Then I selected "Add radio bookmark" from the window menu and saved as audio bookmark. After selecting the saved station from OMP's station list I can play it again and starting/stopping still works.

Unfortunately, I have no idea why it's broken just for you or working just for me. Maybe there's something informative in OMP's terminal output.

marmistrz

2014-09-20 18:34

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

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Originally Posted by gidzzz (Post 1439851)

Yes, it would be a fix for this particular case. But I'm still convinced that implementing simple overrides is something we can't avoid. It can be as easy as QSettings-based

Code:

QString artist; // is our current, read from the file

artist = settings.getValue("artistOverrides/artistName", artist)

// do something with it

Why? A couple of situations in which overrides are extremely useful:

Misnamed tags (on our or the provider's side). This includes the mentioned wikia problem, capital/small letters issues (no redirects here if name is Cyrillic [1]) or situations where the band changed its name.

Live tracks. Suppose you have a track "I Am The Law (Live)". You can override it and have the lyrics for the real track loaded. Ideally, you would use a regular-expression-based override, but specifying the overrides in a per-track manner is better than no lyrics

Another reason to use it: if we know that artist "Эпидемия" is in fact "Эпидемия_(Epidemia)" we load 1 page instead of 3 per track.

While the fallback strategy would work here, I really encourage you to implement the overrides. Such feature would be beneficial to OMP. The 3-page strategy would work great if being supplemental but on its own is merely a workaround.

[1] http://lyrics.wikia.com/Talk:Lyrics_...ongs.27_lyrics

gidzzz

2014-09-20 19:17

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

Before I start writing an essay on why I don't like this idea (I'd prefer to spend that time working on OMP, for example), tell me if you would be satisfied by "Search lyrics" dialog invoked from lyrics' context menu in Now Playing (later maybe also from each track's menu, but less invasive changes first), where you can enter tags for the current song, because that's what I'm planning for the next release anyway.

TomJ	2014-09-21 14:17

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

Quote:

Originally Posted by gidzzz (Post 1439851)

See http://wiki.maemo.org/Open_Media_Pla...found_in_MP.29, the "Playlist editing" part.

Ooh, I must have missed that. Splendid!

Quote:

I don't have a Bluetooth headset, so I don't know what it takes to turn it on, but enabling the FM transmitter is IMO pretty quick (thus not slow enough to justify a new entry in the menus).

I'm not looking for a new menu entry, rather a button on (one of) the now playing screen(s). The most obvious use is in-car, so perhaps the in-car screen. You must, of course, work on whatever you consider most important, but I think it would make life somewhat easier.

marmistrz

2014-09-21 14:20

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

Quote:

Originally Posted by gidzzz (Post 1439870)

This might be an option, provided that the dialog has the current song's tags after showing up.

Any reason apart from spending the time? What if someone did it on their own?

gidzzz

2014-09-24 09:05

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

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Originally Posted by TomJ (Post 1439954)

I'm not looking for a new menu entry, rather a button on (one of) the now playing screen(s). The most obvious use is in-car, so perhaps the in-car screen.

Thanks for clarifying, I forgot about QML views. For the car view it makes sense, I even have it somewhere on my to-do list.

Quote:

Originally Posted by marmistrz (Post 1439955)

This might be an option, provided that the dialog has the current song's tags after showing up.

Sure, this a natural thing to do.

Quote:

Originally Posted by marmistrz (Post 1439955)

Any reason apart from spending the time? What if someone did it on their own?

Yes, questionable gains at the cost of increased complexity. You can create your own plugin if you want -- drop it in "/opt/openmediaplayer/lyrics/" and OMP should pick it up.

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Originally Posted by marmistrz (Post 1439863)

The fix for bad tags is to fix the bad tags, not to accumulate overrides in a file. If the problem is on your side, edit the audio files. If the problem is on LyricWikia's side or it's moot, add a redirection for everyone to benefit. The broken example in [1] is against LyricWikia's page naming policy, as all words should start with a capital letter. I expect that song to work in the next release of OMP, because LyricWikia plugin will 1) capitalize names and 2) handle artist redirections. There will also be a search dialog to deal with refractory songs when in haste or lazy.

Quote:

Originally Posted by marmistrz (Post 1439863)

Live tracks. Suppose you have a track "I Am The Law (Live)". You can override it and have the lyrics for the real track loaded. Ideally, you would use a regular-expression-based override, but specifying the overrides in a per-track manner is better than no lyrics

Unfortunately there are lots of exceptions when it comes to lyrics and when you fix one thing, you can break another. An example would be a live recording having a hidden track at the end (http://lyrics.wikia.com/Incubus:Pardon_Me_%28Live%29). This is why there are multiple plugins and why I prefer to leave as much of name processing as possible to the provider -- if one fails, maybe others can get it right (in case of "I Am The Law (Live)" ChartLyrics works, returning lyrics for the studio version, because it has a search engine behind the API).

Quote:

Originally Posted by marmistrz (Post 1439863)

Another reason to use it: if we know that artist "Эпидемия" is in fact "Эпидемия_(Epidemia)" we load 1 page instead of 3 per track.

But each user would have to enter each such artist manually... and no, I am not going to ship a huge file with exceptions just to speed up LyricWikia.

Quote:

Originally Posted by marmistrz (Post 1439863)

The 3-page strategy would work great if being supplemental but on its own is merely a workaround.

No, it is an implementation of the LyricWikia page naming policy (which requires non-latin names to have a transliteration appended). Unfortunately it depends on the artist page having a redirection (although I believe the overwhelming majority has it), but the only automatic alternative seems to be the search box (which is risky, maybe a bit less with a good heuristic). A file with manual overrides is what I would call a workaround.

marmistrz

2014-09-24 15:27

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

@gidzzz:
Well, the complexibility increase is not really big, it's a couple of lines (sole override code, neglecting the UI code for configuration - there might be no UI as well for it)

And you misunderstood me, probably. I don't expect you to create all the overrides for each possible band - it's impossible! My suggestion was to create a tool, so that a user can configure any override himself. We don't listen to more than 50 bands, do we? But the number of bands listened by anyone here is much more than 1000, I guess.

I might do a little code for handling an override - it's a couple of lines as I said. But it would only be the code handling it and no UI.

gidzzz

2014-09-26 22:00

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

Open Media Player 20140926 is ready:

Support for MAFW source plugins.
Added FM transmitter button to the car view.
Allow notification popups in the video window when not playing or when the overlay is visible.
Added an option to search for lyrics with manually entered song info.
Fixed the inability to load lyrics for the current song after changing settings.
Fixed parsing in the LyricWiki plugin and improved compatibility with the site.
Fixed the AZLyrics plugin, which apparently stopped working some time ago.
Rewrote MAFW source browsing internals and FM transmitter support (lots of cleanups, fixed some memory leaks and bugs waiting to happen).

You can install http://maemo.org/packages/view/mafw-grilo-source/ to get additional plugins (but YouTube and SHOUTcast appear to be broken). They can be accessed from main window's top menu, just like in the stock player.

pali	2014-09-28 12:49

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

@gidzzz: here is my merge request for new slovak strings:
https://gitorious.org/qt-mediaplayer...ge_requests/11

In future if there are only few new strings ping me and I can update slovak file before releasing new version.

marmistrz

2014-11-04 20:17

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

After a full reflash I loaded my whole music collection with a local album art in the folder. OMP has problems loading the cover for the first time (the old one is still being displayed)

sixwheeledbeast

2014-11-04 21:43

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

Quote:

Originally Posted by marmistrz (Post 1445872)

After a full reflash I loaded my whole music collection with a local album art in the folder. OMP has problems loading the cover for the first time (the old one is still being displayed)

I have had issues with album art after resetting the tracker, I assumed it was thumbnailerd/trackerd playing up but maybe it's related to the last OMP update?

ste-phan

2014-11-05 12:16

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

Quote:

Originally Posted by gidzzz (Post 1440731)

Open Media Player 20140926 is ready:

Added FM transmitter button to the car view.
Rewrote MAFW source browsing internals and FM transmitter support (lots of cleanups, fixed some memory leaks and bugs waiting to happen).

Finally tried this software after it popped up in active topics and I read about an FM button update.

-Open Media Player sticks to the stock player interface and shares the bookmarks for streaming audio: great.

-there is an option "on exit: pause playback" That is very useful for audiobooks continuation.
My scope of interest goes to a stock media player enhanced with audiobook functions, but I guess I am a minority here.

Audiobooks functions:
-play applicable formats
-user indicates a separate folder for audiobooks in setup options
-player software keeps track of position for audiobook files, seperate from music / video playback, also after program restart or playback of other media.
-multiple bookmarks with comment option

As it stands, OMP can remember the playback position (pause on exit) but this "bookmark" is lost once user decides to listen to radio or another audio file.

Using OMP for books and stock media player for music together is also not practical (as with Panucci) since you need to close one to use the other (both use same MAFW component I guess)

I am always ready (to pay) for a media player that unites both music and books and the FMTX functionality of the N900.

Sure, there is Panucci that has not forgotten to include the FMTX and features a bookmark function but it seems to be very sensitive to multitasking operations during playback (lock / unlock phone interrupts audio and it is easy to provoke small hickups). Also, it can't read audio files from the SD card.

Further feedback on OMP:

-OMP seems to use slightly higher +/- 20 CPU% / RAM compared the stock Media player.

-Car mode interface with easy FM button: this feature is only available for music file playback mode and not available in streaming (internet radio) mode.

tip for car mode:

-car mode access should be presented as an easy button like FM mode in car view mode. (But I guess closed interface code of the audio playback screen restricts such button placement)

-car mode window -> upper right "back" arrow -> return to normal player interface -> -> to the multitasking overview, IMO is one step too much.

-seperate the FM button. IMO car mode's enlarged big buttons are less important than the recently added easy FM on/off button on, integrated in the car mode file playback control pannel.
As it is now, we have to navigate to the car mode via the complex menu in order to access my easy FM button , again one step too much.
This FM button would be a welcome addition to both file and streaming playback window.

Many thanks to the maintainers of this software for the continued support and to stick to the maemo 5 interface style.

marmistrz

2014-11-05 16:35

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

And would it be possible to batch load all album arts in a file front.jpg?

marmistrz

2014-11-06 21:00

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

Artist: Pain Of Salvation
Title: Idioglossia
These http://lyrics.wikia.com/Pain_Of_Salvation:Idioglossia lyrics are not found by omp ("lyrics not found" if using only lyrics wiki). darklyrics lyrics are fetched

dy1ng

2014-11-06 21:47

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

It's would be nice to acces the "sleep timer" from the "now playing" menu. :)
Except from that, thanks for the app, it's one of the best on N900.

sixwheeledbeast

2014-11-06 21:53

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

Would be nice to access the lyrics without adding the song to the play queue

marmistrz

2014-11-18 17:06

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

gidzzz: The Lyrics Wiki plugin seem not to be working altogether. Could you please fix it?

sixwheeledbeast

2014-11-18 17:37

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

Anybody else stuffing issues with the latest version regarding playback?

It seems if I pull the headset out OMP pauses as it should and if I insert the headset straight away, playback resumes as it should.

However, if I remove the headset and wait a while before inserting, playback will not resume correctly, it also seems to get stuck on that track. Play and skip backwards no longer function correctly. I then have to skip forward and then backward before I can play the track again.

marmistrz

2014-11-18 17:54

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

I'm not using the resume feature, but I'll enable it and I'll check.

xes	2015-01-07 12:56

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

@gidzzz while trying omp with a minidlna server i have discovered that is not possible to seek a video to start playback from a random position. The result is that if something hangs, you can only restart the playback from the beginning. (Even if it is a 2 hours presentation...)
Do you think you could add this functionality?

sixwheeledbeast

2015-01-20 15:04

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

Having the odd issue with OMP lately.
It's a bit of a vague bug report, as I haven't had time to try and pin it down.
It seems to be related to removing the headset, I'll be listening to music and then remove the headset (this pauses the track). I'll then do other things maybe get a phone call (so OMP gets minimized). On reinserting the headset the music will sometimes not play automatically and even if you poke, play nothing happens.
The now playing screen appears to get stuck. The track title is still displayed in the menu bar instead of "Now Playing". The only way to get the music playing again is to close OMP, or start a new playing session.

ivgalvez

2015-01-21 09:19

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

gidizz: Now that there is support for Maemo in openrepos.net, it would be useful if you upload the thumb version of Open Media Player (and any other thumb applications) there.

gidzzz

2015-01-31 14:15

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

I have finally found some time to look into the reported issues and release OMP 20150131-1.

New shortcut: Ctrl+F to focus the search box and select its contents.
Do not show the search box when Fn alone is pressed.
Alow scrolling using PgUp, PgDn, Home and End.
LyricWiki plugin works again.
Fixed a problem with missing album art not always being looked for.
New translation: Slovenian by sponka.
Updated translations.

Quote:

Originally Posted by marmistrz (Post 1446001)

And would it be possible to batch load all album arts in a file front.jpg?

I think this is a job for Tracker.

Quote:

Originally Posted by xes (Post 1455750)

But does MiniDLNA even support it? Surely this is not a problem with OMP, because MAFW renderer says that seeking is not supported. I tried ignoring that and seeking regardless of what the renderer says, but then nothing happens (besides an error being reported).

Quote:

Originally Posted by sixwheeledbeast (Post 1457385)

I use headphones almost every day, but I have never seen anything like that.

pali	2015-01-31 15:40

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

Quote:

Originally Posted by pali (Post 1440875)

@gidzzz: you still did not look at merge request ^^^

gidzzz

2015-01-31 18:01

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

I forgot to push changes to Gitorious and close the merge request, but it is included in today's version.

xes	2015-01-31 21:23

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

Quote:

Originally Posted by gidzzz (Post 1459034)

Yes, minidlna supports seeking (just checked again).
I supposed it could be managed with MAFW_METADATA_KEY_IS_SEEKABLE in mafw-upnp-source.

One more question:
I have some problem opening video and audio files starting from hamsterfiller or command line. Files can't be opened or OMP starts playing something else.
Is it doable without using a dbus-send command? Am i missing some command line switch to queue or play?
In the detail, filenames with spaces seem to be part of the problem.

biketool

2015-02-02 12:30

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

Just a bug report, N900/Maemo5, KP, CSSU-thumb.
Since replacing Nokia's mediaplayer a few months ago large and small MP3s files and m4a/AAC files generated by cutetube almost always crash OMP when opened from file manager.
Audio file loads when launched cold from the command line it also works OK if loaded from file manager if OMP is already open.
Other than this bug I love OMP.

nokiabot

2015-02-19 10:13

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nokiabot

2015-02-19 10:16

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

omp working nice here and that carmode is really handy while commuting bad thing is it does not rotate properly only half screen it should be more handy if front size could be configured and one more screen added to it before the now playing screen which would contain configurable shortcuts for dailer maps home button playlists etc also while in potrait mode the stratus bar looks ugly maybe option to fullscreen it or make it like the maps one the biggest gripe is scrolling as i got a long playlist its hard scrollbar is a no go insted insted a quick flick should scroll continously fast or a button should appear to take to top or bottom at wrap speeds
the most nifty feature i found is fit to screen

princefakhan

2015-05-01 14:56

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

Guys! When can we have the browse by folder option in Videos (and Music too if possible).

dy1ng

2015-05-01 15:49

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player

Quote:

Originally Posted by princefakhan (Post 1469118)

Guys! When can we have the browse by folder option in Videos (and Music too if possible).

Access for sleep timer from now playing would be nice too.

KotCzarny