MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

The long wait is over and MediaBox 0.96 is available in the maemo-extras
repository for Chinook and Diablo.

UPnP Streaming

http://mediabox.garage.maemo.org/sshots/upnp.png

UPnP/DLNA is a great technology for streaming music, videos, and photos to your
tablet. Simply put an UPnP media server in your home network and MediaBox
will discover it automatically for browsing and streaming its contents.

Playlists and media bookmarks

Playlists can be created and edited and are saved automatically. You can reorder
the items at any time, and you can mix audio, videos, and images in a playlist.

You can now also set media bookmarks in any (seekable) file to mark the best
spots and to find the place where you stopped listening to your audio book or
podcast the last time. Simply click on the star-button to set a media bookmark
for the current position.

Shuffle and Repeat

I don't think I need to say much about these features anymore, except that MediaBox
can do it now, too.

Car-Mode

http://mediabox.garage.maemo.org/sshots/songinfo.png

Car-mode is what I call the fullscreen mode of the music player because it's
very handy to use while driving a car. Big buttons for previous, next, and play/pause,
along with big cover-art and a big title label make MediaBox perfect for this
situation. I use this mode frequently with a shuffled playlist when driving.

Themes

http://mediabox.garage.maemo.org/sshots/themes.png

It seems like every media center these days needs to be themable. MediaBox
follows this fad so you can give it a new skin by downloading themes from the
maemo-extras repository.

Plugins

http://mediabox.garage.maemo.org/sshots/plugins.png

MediaBox can be extended with plugins, and I'm going to cover plugin development
later. Some plugins are already available for download:
- a FM radio (for the N800),
- a YouTube browser
- and internet radio with SHOUTcast directory.

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

hmm, any way to mark a shoutcast entry as favorite?

and do the red stripe in the folder section mean it wont look for that kind of media in that location?

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

Hi Pycage thanks for this good work and all your efforts to bring about this clean media player, can we remove the svn version and how in other to install this release thanks again U still in mind.

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

Very nice application.
I am however having a problem with reordering a play list.
I use the icon on the left and drag the item to the top of the list.
So far so good. The new order is there if i move to a different activity and then come back to the playlist.
but if i exit the program and come back the new order has not been saved.
Am i doing it wrong?

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

Yes, that's what it means.

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

You can remove the SVN version by removing the directory where to checked out from SVN. You can also leave it there to continue running the latest SVN version. Installing from maemo-extras doesn't conflict with the SVN version, as long as you didn't install the SVN version to /usr/lib/mediabox.

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

You're doing nothing wrong. This seems like a bug. I'll take a look at it.

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

Ha the radio is a plug in now...
Let's see if it work.
VERY impressive work. Thank you so much for this very clean player...

Little side question, do you happen to be interested in the (open) Pandora ? Mainly asking to know if we can expect this also on the pandora :)

Edit: made a little thread about this on the pandora forum.linky

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

Sure. Get me a device and I'll be happy to make it run there. :)

Thanks.

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more
 

I'm currently collecting all your bug reports for 0.96. There'll be a 0.96.1 release before 2009. So let me know what troubles you with 0.96. :)