N900 Media Player Problem
 

i decided to delete all my songs from my n900 to start fresh and to sort out all my album cover art.
but the media player is still showing songs and when i delete them, they reappear when media player is restarted.
the songs wont play and show an error message 'unable to find media file' (as the files were deleted)
and now if i put new songs on it show duplicates etc
it's really annoying me that i can't fix this, not even when it's plugged into my laptop.
also i can't seem to sync with windows media player anymore.

anyone have any ideas??

pleeeeaaaseee

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

reset tracker
I think it was:
tracker - r
form xterm and it deletes all media databases and makes them again. Reboot also could help thing.

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

as ordinary user in terminal. Starting the media player will restart
the tracker processes after a reset like above.

Also be wary of various threads on the forum that say tracker-process instead of tracker processes. The message authors should edit those posts.

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

tried rebooting, no effect.
so in xterm i just type 'tracker - r' ? ------ ahh just seen the code

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

thanks that worked like a charm
....although my videos are gone now too lol
oh well was mainly fussed about the music

thanks :)



spoke too soon, my videos are still there
even better

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

i have the same problem, but i'm kind of stranger with xterminal. Could anyone explain me how to type in tracker-processes-r, because it says:
-sh:tracker-processes-r: not found

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

I'm having the same problem as tamps883. get the same tracker error, and neither MediaPlayer or Media box will index my songs. Although mine is a n800 running Diablo, this is the only forum I've found where someone has posted the same issues.

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

there is a space between tracker-processes and -r ;)

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

nope, still get not found. even trying without the -r

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

i resolved what i did wrong: i didn't write "root" when i started xterm (mean i'm noob:o) but after i did that, nothing happend
P.S mine problem was that wrong album cover appeared when i put on a new album. Shouldn't tracker reset solve that ?

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

Actually, tracker-processes -r should not be run as root.

However, the tracker process needs to be restarted. This can be done by starting the media player. Re-indexing might take quite a while if there are many media files.

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

hello. i got sort of the same problem on my N900 that i got last week. i cant see any of my songs. videos or pictures in my media player and the photoplayer.. i dont know if i moved them wrong, used massstorage from my pc, and send over BT and used the nokia software also.. Can somebody please help me.. Try'ed every way to rfresh my mediaplayer..

A other problem i got. cant find my memorycard..

Thanks // Tobbe

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

Hey everyone, I'm looking for some help with my mediaplayer as well. For some reason it's telling me that I have no songs or videos and "Photos" is telling me I have no images. When I take a pic with the cam, the pic is also nowhere to be found. I've already tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it via x-term but that didn't change anything. Any suggestions? :(

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

Worked like a charm for me, thanks!

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

Just wanted to say thanks - the "tracker-processes -r" worked for me. I had had a problem with my N900's internal 32 GB memory needing a file system check / fix. Thanks! :-)

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

Download "Tracker CFG" from the repo's gives you a GUI to restart and alter media indexing.

"Mussorgsky" can be used to alter media metadata directley on the N900. I prefer to alter Media meta data through amorak & ubuntu though as it just easier!!

Re: N900 Media Player problem. (no songs)
 

guys i have a different probem when i open media player it displays no song..but when i browse with file manager i cant see that the songs and videos still in the fone. any help ?? thanks

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

Please, see my post here:
https://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?...58&postcount=2
Thanks.

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

(Sorry, I've initially posted my message into a n800 thread...)

Back to the future... I had 3 n900 (somehow now dead or unchargeable) having this issue for reasons I still can't identify.
I reflashed a new second hand n900 a few days ago and I re-enjoyed mediaplayer working for all my files again. But since yesterday, it is broken, again, and I can't figure out why.
The most frustrating thing is that I know I did nothing by myself to make this issue happen simply because I was sleeping between the moment it was working and the moment it was broken.

As far as I can tell, the problem is really similar to this *closed* bug:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6823

I've tried a lot of things (restarting trackerd, killing mafw-*, reboots, run it with strace, etc.) without success. When trying to play any audio/video file, it still shows this error message (translated from french) "impossible to process operation", even trying to change the mediaplayer volume triggers this error.

If anybody here is still using his n900 and its mediaplayer, please give some feedback!

Note: openmediaplayer suffers of the same problems, an was working good when mediaplayer was working too.

--
PS: my firmware is 20.2010.36-2

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

(I realize that, moved from another topic, my previous message lost some context and is not clear anymore. Let me rephrase.)

My problem: the mediaplayer can't play anything (audio video, radio) nor I can change its internal volume. These operations fail and I get the following error message (translated from french) "impossible to process operation".

Facts in chronological order:

• This n900 has been flashed a few days ago.
• The mediaplayer used to worked like a charm (local or upnp mp3 & videos).
• After spending an evening using the mediaplayer, on the day after, I found it broken.
• All of my previous n900 devices had this same issue at some point and I still can't identify why.
• openmediaplayer suffers of the exact same problems (an was working good when mediaplayer was working too).

Investigations:
The mediaplayer is so opaque to me (no parameters, useless log in /tmp/, etc.) that I couldn't find out a solution by myself (I often do). I even can't understand why this is the only app I can't run from the shell: my idea was to run it with strace (gathered from Debian Squeeze armel repo) to see on which system call the program may be trapped or could throw any internal error (strace makes it very verbose, we can see printf calls, etc.). (I mean I can run it, but it does show up!)
I've also tried a lot of other things of course: restarting trackerd, killing mafw-* processes, reboot, inspecting log file (into /tmp/ ), etc. without any success.
I suspect a possible communication issue between mediaplayer and dbus (it uses it right?) to run underlying players and volume control. To me, it's like they can't talk anymore. I may be totally wrong, but the rest of the mediaplayer works (browing files, upnp shares, etc.).

Thank you for reading!
--
PS: my firmware is 20.2010.36-2 and packages are up to date.

Re: N900 Media Player Problem
 

I've solved my problem. Finally, strace and the openmediaplayer source code helped me a to understand that the issue was related to mafw.

Lucky guy I am, my intuition led me to reinstall mafw-gst-renderer package (which I felt was central in the mafw set of packages):
(I don't use apt-get) as root: I guess a pre/post install script from this package did the trick. Next time, I'll track /etc/ files using Git to hopefully see which change on which file solved my issue. Can I call this "blind-hacking"? Like it though!

Does anyone experienced the same?