Ilia,

We know mediabox, there must be some problem related to our dbus message to the default media player to play the file (mediabox uses mplayer) and thus we will find and kill the bug.

We can go into some of the points you've said but I don't think is important for that matter.

We got your problem, we are investigating but we do have our goals, and We will not make like mediabox. At all. This difference is the nice thing about maemo / open platforms. Media box fits for a lot of users, we fit to others, Ukmp fits to others... I respect pycage for it's effort and for conducting (almost?) solely this project, but we have different goals. like himself says "Canola is not a media center" and I never say anything back. (Maybe he never used frontrow, but I really don't care) and also I am (truly) proud of not only MB, but also UKMP and kagu because we did a lot of work to push python forward, we did a lot of work to optmize even the pygame he uses to draw stuff and in our minds this work was a success helped also by those really neat python applications, by those brave solo developers.

What we can say is : you still have options, and we always refund the non-satisfied customers ))

Just to make clear : WHEN YOU PLUG A USB THING : IT MOUNTS if it doesn't, you need to mount manually. it's a basic unix principle. The only thing we need to see is what is happening when you hit play (the message is sent to the default media player engine) and it's not being interpreted.

So please: can you remember that everysingle software has bugs, has features lacking, and if they are in beta, they are evolving. For the love of god, people seems to "demand" that everything they need should be working, in the way THEY think is good, and in the timeframe they think is reasonable. Any applications (be it canola, mediabox or wordpy or mapper) is a result of long coding hours, debugging hours and while I'm incredible patient I also have limits to what I consider to be a little bit too much of demands from some users.

This will be fixed? Yes. This should work in the easiest way possible (in safe conditions) ? Probably.

Sorry if this sounds rude, but please bare in mind that things takes time.

Marcelo