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2009-07-01 , 09:42
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Originally Posted by zerojay View Post
By the way, the default media player can add folders of songs to a playlist without being in a library just fine.

Here's the original post I made about using and creating playlists for the default media player: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...793#post120793
Sorry, but that only talks about creating a playlist based on stuff in the library, nothing there about adding stuff of a random dir on a random SD card without it being scanned by the crawler first...

Oh, sure, i could open each file individually and then save said playlist but there is no way for me to point it at a dir, tell it to grab all the music files in it and then let me sort out what to play or not...
 
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Sorry, but that only talks about creating a playlist based on stuff in the library, nothing there about adding stuff of a random dir on a random SD card without it being scanned by the crawler first...

Oh, sure, i could open each file individually and then save said playlist but there is no way for me to point it at a dir, tell it to grab all the music files in it and then let me sort out what to play or not...
You've never tried then.

Media Player Menu: Clip -> Open, go to your desired directory, select multiple songs through click and drag or hit Ctrl+A to select all in that folder in one shot, then hit Open. The selected songs or all the songs in that directory are added to the playlist in one go, no need for scanning.

It also works with directories, so if you have a music folder on an SD card with each album in it's own subdirectory, you can just enter your music directory, click and drag to select multiple or hit Ctrl+A and all music in all selected directories will be added to the playlist, again, without a need for scanning via crawler.

(I must be the only person out there that has *never* had a issue with the crawler, lol.)
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2009-07-01 , 10:58
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I know this is dragging things a bit off topic, but the only issue I have with the builtin media player, is the sheer unresponsiveness when the tablet is loaded with nearly 5000 music tracks.

BTW (back on topic now), when I used to use my 770, I did have it hooked to an 80GB 2.5 inch laptop drive in an external case using a home-made usb adaptor - great for the car. unfortunately the audio connector is a bit tempermental these days, and often only likes making a connection to one audio channel. Also the 770 seems soooo slow after using the N800
 
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is the sheer unresponsiveness when the tablet is loaded with nearly 5000 music tracks.
Yeah, I've loaded mine with something like 500 or so and it's still a dog. I'd hate to load my entire collection and watch it go down in flames. 500 is almost too much for it.
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2009-07-01 , 17:55
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You've never tried then.

Media Player Menu: Clip -> Open, go to your desired directory, select multiple songs through click and drag or hit Ctrl+A to select all in that folder in one shot, then hit Open. The selected songs or all the songs in that directory are added to the playlist in one go, no need for scanning.

It also works with directories, so if you have a music folder on an SD card with each album in it's own subdirectory, you can just enter your music directory, click and drag to select multiple or hit Ctrl+A and all music in all selected directories will be added to the playlist, again, without a need for scanning via crawler.

(I must be the only person out there that has *never* had a issue with the crawler, lol.)
ah, sadly ctrl-a is somewhat hard on a N800

still, i seems that at least one file has to be included in the selection, as just selecting a dir on its own will not make the select button "tapable".
 
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XMMS has security holes? On an NIT? Not really worried, to be honest.

Thanks, bun, for asking me that question. I've been listening to my music again after a long hiatus.

Quite an impressive thread for music player. And as always good to see some rare oldtimers here, zerojay, long time no see, welcome back.

@qole, thanks getting back on the subject. I have NOT used xmms for several months, my fav music player and still the ONLY one available with equalizer on maemo. True, under KDE, you have other players also have equalizer, but for maemo, xmms is the ONE.

I open xmms from xterm, here is the err messages,
** WARNING **: Failed to open font: "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*"
ALSA lib control.c:909: (snd-ctl-open-noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0
** WARNING **: alsa_get_mixer(): Attaching to mixer hw:0 failed: No such file or directory.

Diablo 5.2008.43-7. xmms 1.2.10+20070601-1-maemo.7.n800

Is that the latest built?

It showed the xmms upon booting, but hanged when trying to play. I think it is the ALSA wide stereo I set as output. I would like to turn it off, but without font, everything is a blank. Any suggestions?


TIA,

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Bun,

Your problem is the ALSA output. Go to Preferences, Audio I/O Plugins, and choose eSound Output Plugin. That should make things work!
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I am blind! There is no label on any preference or bullets as I cannot load the fonts. I may have to just guess from the positions what they are. BTW, why my fonts loading failed?

Edit: Problem managed, here, #27
Edit: Boy, we posted at the same time about the solution . Thanks qole.

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bun: according to this post and the ones following it, your menu item shouldn't just say "xmms" it needs to say:

Code:
LANG=C xmms
or, if you are using the xmms.desktop file, it needs to say,

Code:
Exec=/bin/sh -c "LANG=C xmms"
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