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Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
Apparently though there is a cache that Media Box uses and if you change or add art after you have loaded MediaBox, it doesn't change.

I am hoping pycage can give me a root command that will refresh this cache.
There is not much of a cache. The thumbnails are kept in
Code:
/home/user/.thumbnails/mediabox
The filename of the thumbnail is the md5 sum of the path string. If the modification time of a path is newer than the modification time of the thumbnail, it gets recreated. So in order to update your covers, you either
Code:
touch /path/to/your/directory/with/songs/
or simply
Code:
rm /home/user/.thumbnails/mediabox/*
The latter command completely wipes the "cache".

Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
BTW, being able to browse to a folder and play its contents with MediaBox in the future would be great!



Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
I ran MediaBox for four+ hours tonight in a party environment and it was incredibly useful. People who had never touched a tablet before felt right at home scrolling to music they wanted to hear and adding it to the playlist. Music ran continuously. Much like a juke box in a bar.
Thanks for telling this little success story!

Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
Unlike a juke box though, when the last song in the playlist was played, MediaBox just kept queuing up the next song in the directory, <This is pretty cool as it needed no interaction in order to keep pumping out sound... unless that last song was from my "Stones" directory. After the 5th song in a row from them (in a directory you know holds 23 more) it kind of forces you to add to the dang playlist in order to keep you wits.
This sounds to me like a bug in the playlist handling.

Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
As a result, my next feature request would be the ability to choose "shuffle" or "random" for the songs MediaBox plays after it runs the playlist.
This will come soon.
 

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