Mediaplayer and ogg support problem on n900
 

Hi, I installed ogg support to my n900, and loaded an album (.oga) to music folder. Mediaplayer doesn't show it there and is not playing it.

However when I browse the album through files and select a song from the album mediaplayer is playing it nicely.

Is there a way to make an ogg-album 'visible' to mediaplayer so I could play them directly from it?

Wouldn't really like to transform my oggs to mp3...

Cheers.

Re: Mediaplayer and ogg support problem on n900
 

From the source of ogg-support I can see that it simply does not register the mimetype audio/ogg. You can report this as a bug here.

Re: Mediaplayer and ogg support problem on n900
 

Rebooting the device may help. I see no problems with Ogg in the media player on my N900. But the extension of my Oggs is .ogg, not .oga, if that makes a difference.

Re: Mediaplayer and ogg support problem on n900
 

Thanks, the extension was the problem. I renamed the songs from .oga to .ogg and everything is cool now.

I'm wondering if I should still report a bug, because my rythmbox seems to rip my cds to Ogg with oga extension, and .oga recognition would be handy...? But maybe that's not necessary...

Thanks and cheers :)

Re: Mediaplayer and ogg support problem on n900
 

It only needs to register application/ogg as that is what the gstreamer typefinder will typefind it as.

Re: Mediaplayer and ogg support problem on n900
 

But it doesn't find *.oga files, which is the recommended filetype for Vorbis audio files. The *.ogg container will be replaced with *.ogx AFAIK: http://wiki.xiph.org/MIME_Types_and_..._-_audio.2Fogg

Re: Mediaplayer and ogg support problem on n900
 

And they wonder why no one uses OGG for music.

Re: Mediaplayer and ogg support problem on n900
 

Yes, so I think you are right.

Re: Mediaplayer and ogg support problem on n900
 

what a strange comment. XIPH is just following the same standard as the MP4 format and the WM format

M4A, audio only
M4B, audio books
M4V, video
MP4, container

WMA, audio
WMV; video

OGA, audio
OGG, container
OGV, video

Re: Mediaplayer and ogg support problem on n900
 

wow ive been using ogg for years on all types of devices and have never ever heard of .oga or .ogv

Re: Mediaplayer and ogg support problem on n900
 

Has there been any movement on this front? I've managed to dig up the bug tracker entry for this https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6456 but am yet to see it resolved.

I'd prefer not to keep two copies of my music collection in both *.ogg for the n900 and *.oga for my PC.

Re: Mediaplayer and ogg support problem on n900
 

Here's a work-around: after you copy the *.oga files to your N900, open the X-terminal and run something like this to rename all *.oga files to *.ogg.

# UNTESTED

find / -name "*.oga" -exec rename .oga .ogg '{}' \;

Re: Mediaplayer and ogg support problem on n900
 

jacktanner, thanks for the reply!

This much I was aware of, and in the past I had used a similar method to rename all my music files from .oga to .ogg.

I just wish it wasn't an issue. I am yet to dig into the source - but imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to add support for one additional file format. Right?

Re: Mediaplayer and ogg support problem on n900
 

hi!

while installing ogg-spport I noticed that it calls this:I guess it should be sufficient to call something like this to enable oga supportI have not tested it though as all my software rips ogg as ogg...

good luck


Btw: for everyone whose ogg support is broken by the PR 1.3 update. just reinstall ogg-support via apt-get or call the above comman to re-register ogg support in media player. reinstalling ogg-support through the app manager might not work due to other programs depending on ogg-support.

Re: Mediaplayer and ogg support problem on n900
 

Thanks for this post, that solved my media player problem I had since PR1.3. Now I finally see my ogg files again :D

Re: Mediaplayer and ogg support problem on n900
 

bash: tracker-update-ontology: command not found

btw, is Vorbis support in N900 DSP-accelerated as AAC- and MP3-decoders are?

Any way to check this somehow on system, trace calls to dspbridge or so?

Re: Mediaplayer and ogg support problem on n900
 

The message from /usr/bin/tracker-register-mimetype is buggy: the command is update-tracker-ontology, not tracker-update-ontology. On my N900, update-tracker-ontology crashes, but the real problem seems to come from the tracker-files utility, which has a ridiculous limit of 512 files (though I didn't have any such problem before the PR1.3 upgrade). See my comment 6 in bug 11511.

Re: Mediaplayer and ogg support problem on n900
 

Thank you. Reinstalling ogg-support fixed the issue of not-seeing ogg and flac files - which I got after messing with media art.