Thread: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player
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Originally Posted by fw190 View Post
Do you think that the state of the development is close to puting OMP into CSSU?
I think that three biggest feature-wise blockers are: (1) differentiation between audio and video streams when opening a URL; (2) bookmarking video links; (3) support for libplayback (more control over what happens with music when the phone is ringing). Aside from that, there are bugs, bugs and bugs to fix. (2) should be easy. I'm uncertain about (1) and (3), because I haven't tried doing anything about them yet.


Originally Posted by marmistrz View Post
Just a suggestion: maybe omp should have an option of a 'log mode': log is saved anyway, on standard exit this would be deleted if someone wishes to
Hmmm... have I not answered to this before?


Originally Posted by rfeese View Post
The "append opened songs" setting doesn't seem to work. I expect it to append the song to the playlist, but replaces the playlist with the selected song. Maybe I misunderstood what this setting does.
I think you got it right (see http://wiki.maemo.org/Open_Media_Pla...neral_settings), but It's only for mime_open, i.e. when using another application (like a file browser) to open a song.

Originally Posted by rfeese View Post
Can we have settings to remove the "delete" and "set as ringtone" options from the context-menus. I really don't see those as very useful and most of the time, I don't even want those options there in case I (or someone else) was to accidentally click them.
I like it the way it is in the stock player, but there was a request to add more of "delete" and now there is a request for less, so it might really end up in the settings menu. For now, good news is that in OMP there's a confirmation dialog for setting the ringtone (accidents with this option in the stock player were driving me mad) and with today's update it's even easier to dismiss them.

Originally Posted by rfeese View Post
There is a slight difference in the UPnP browser in that on the stock player, if there are more UPnP servers than can fit in the window, it shows an icon you can click to get a full-screen scrolling list. It is a little easier to use than the horizontal scrolling in OMP.
I was always wondering what happens in such case. Looks like I'll need to find a way to set up a quite lot of shares.


Originally Posted by dipack95 View Post
On the stock MP , the media sharing feature was incredibly handy for watching movies stored on my PC w/o having to transfer it to my N900.
But sadly , that feature doesn't work on OMP
Whenever , I click on an entry , it just gives the error 'URL not found' !
What software do you use to share movies and does music work? I remember having a problem with streaming, but it was in both Nokia's and OMP, and it disappeared after a restart.


Originally Posted by Soulcatcher View Post
Thanks for the advice but i have only landscape and auto rotation mod, no "portrait".

Any idea ?
If not http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=80644, then no idea.


Originally Posted by toxaris View Post
Feature request:
Is there a way to bring up the searchbar in portrait?
Slide out the keyboard, but only partially (so it remains in portrait) and press a key. Other ways are on my todo.


I've been poking various parts of the source, but I couldn't find a larger chunk of time for more focused development, so the changes are pretty scattered and spontaneous. I still did not have a chance to examine all of the reported bugs, but it's been over a month since the last update, so I guess it's better than nothing:
  • Adding songs from a song list to now playing respects search results.
  • Automatic and seamless refreshing of the radio list (probably also fixes the repeated stations bug).
  • Removed context menu entries for clearing and saving the playlist in "Now playing", because they're already in the titlebar menu and they're more global than contextual.
  • Added an option to permanently delete a song in "Now playing".
  • Added a possibility to close confirmation messages by touching the blurred background.
  • Lifted "http://" prefix restriction from radio bookmarks.
  • Larger song progress font in the car view.
  • Fixed clickable category names in the video browser.
  • Fixed album searching in the artist view.
  • Fixed searching being ignored if invoked before song listing is complete.
  • Searching speed improved a bit.
Any thoughts about "Delete" in "Now playing" or the new searching behavior (when shuffling/adding to now playing/clicking a song, only the search results are taken into account)? Those are the main sources of my mixed feelings about this release.
 

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