File manager works, Media Player doesn't - any ideas?
 

I am very pleased that the N900 finds my Windows 7 shared media libraries over the WLAN.

In the Media Player, I can navigate around the LAN, see all the folders and the individual media files. But Media Player refuses to play them. It always gives "Unable to find media file" or other error message. The Media Player just listed the darn media file before I clicked on it, but then says it can't find it.

Now the File Manager can also find the same media files and if I click on the media file from the File Manager, then the Media Player launches and plays the the file. Weird?

Is anyone else experiencing this? Can anyone explain it? Is there a way to fix it?

Re: File manager works, Media Player doesn't - any ideas?
 

I am getting this too ... just now. I don't know what caused it, because last night I realised I had disabled the devel-extras repository, so I enabled it and ran updates. So I don't know what caused it, but it was some update.

Are you suggesting that media player can't play files over the LAN only (i.e., it can play local files), or that it is missing ALL files. Because mine can't find ANY files at all, but the file manager still can. Did you ever solve this issue?

So bummed ... this is my only music/podcast player and now it's useless.

Re: File manager works, Media Player doesn't - any ideas?
 

Please search the log for your updated packages. Did you update in Package Manager (which?) or in Terminal using apt-get?

As people from time to time forget: Doing updates against extras devel might cause all sorts of strange things.

Re: File manager works, Media Player doesn't - any ideas?
 

ya guys i have a solution for this.......just connect ur device to the pc and select "mass storege" after dat just go to the muzic file and check whether any photo or video are in muzic file or not if any single photo or video are present in muzic file den oviously ur muzic player will not work.....so what u have to do... simply just cut the photo or video frm there and just paste it in the image file(in case of photo) or in the video file(in case of video) thank u very much

Re: File manager works, Media Player doesn't - any ideas?
 

michaaa62: I used the normal Maemo App Manager to update. Where do I find the logs? I have just noticed that my image browser cannot see any images either, even though they are still there.

johnstone: Thanks, but I am certain that the files are still there. I can open them in file manager and view their contents in the terminal, and they have thumbnails. They just aren't visible in the Media player or the Image viewer.

Re: File manager works, Media Player doesn't - any ideas?
 

Sounds like you need to re-index the media files in media player.
In xterminal type
tracker-processes -r
then restrart media player. This should start re-indexing your media. If you then close the media player (optional) the notification banner should pop up to tell you the remaining time of indexing. This should fix your problem.
NOTE: There is a space between processes and -r

Re: File manager works, Media Player doesn't - any ideas?
 

OMG!!! You just fixed all my music and images, with one bash command. Thanks bigears! I've been sitting on the bus in silence for the past three weeks.

Re: File manager works, Media Player doesn't - any ideas?
 

No worries mate. Glad it fixed your problem.

Re: File manager works, Media Player doesn't - any ideas?
 

Got the same problem on my N900 (and my girlfriend's too), your solution fixed it faster than the time to write this message.

Thank you !