artpra, have you noticed any difference between startup times of 1-openmediaplayer-99fa336 and 2-openmediaplayer-afd396a? Because pretty much the only thing that changed between those versions is the point at which something called MafwPlaylistManagerAdapter is created. In v1 it is created before GUI is shown, which, from what I understand, could increase the time before OMP window becomes visible. In v2 it is created only when really required, and it is not required just after startup (unless you have playlist view selected in music window), so I expect OMP window to become visible earlier in this case, at the cost of being locked down for a moment, probably by some other MAFW function.

Startup time is one thing that makes me curious, the other is whether simply creating MafwPlaylistManagerAdapter before the window is visible will restore the old behavior. Please check if the attached version is locked down on startup and (if you do not mind rebooting a few more times) see if there is a noticeable difference in startup time between 20130804 (either from the repository or this one: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=1489) and the attached version. Comparison between 1-openmediaplayer-99fa336 and 2-openmediaplayer-afd396a would be also very welcome.

The key moments in startup to look for are: a) main menu becomes visible; b) song count becomes visible.



A screenshot is taken every time a video is paused, that's how OMP creates thumbnails for interrupted clips. IIRC, it is saved in /tmp or a similar place, under the name of mafw-gst-renderer-*. However, this method is rather unreliable, as the automatic screenshots sometimes just stop working. Luckily, looks like my N900 has that problem right now, so I might be able to do some D-Bus sniffing to see what the stock player does to fix it.



As long as the uSD is not a Windows filesystem, you can move ~/.lyrics and/or ~/.cache/openmediaplayer/lyrics and create a symlink to point to the new location. On Windows filesystems you might run into problems with some songs, due to disallowed characters and lack of case sensitivity.