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Spice : yes, exactly album cover gets first from the folder.jpg than from embedded then from the internet. Of course the internet is the less reliable way : /

I'm happy to hear that you don't have any problems, problably you don't have any "devel" grade repository / etc.

Marcelo

handful: how hard would it be to make the songs preload so when it goes to next song, it doesn't need to wait a few seconds before starting? Or is it possible? That way I could listen to songs seamlessly.

cLin: we are doing the fast way possible with today insfrastructure. I'm the one that is really after those effects, but as we are using the default media player, we need to wait for it to start the new song etc.

For example, this is why we don't have gapless playback. : / If we had time we would be using another player, optimized by us probably based on the Xine (libxine) to solve this..


BR

Marcelo

Hi,

came back to civilization...

Didn't have much time to examine the issue, but I believe that xmms has a fadein/out plugin that preloads the next song. You might want to take a look.

copy the issue reported before on the "lock screen using the action key stops playback". I just wait for the timeout, so it's not a big problem.
proposed solution: ignoring the key input following the power button?

no major problems to report so far. My computer got a spamming virus (sorry everyone... ). I had to rip the network cable out, and send symantec and caspersky loose to find it. (successful result... i'll back it up with antivira just in case).
This being said, i'll send you the package with the media for albums in a few days.

sounds interesting... what if the music's ID3 tag does not correspond with the folder name (since i'm manually tagging almost everything)? would it still work? would I need to rename the folder?
Personal thought: this tip should *cough*MUST*cough* be posted on the official canloa site. Extremely useful, if you ask me.

didn't have much time to address the youtube issue either. Might reinstall MPlayer and check.

last note (for now): the last.fm problem that is the MOST annoying is the fact that i need to double-click (sometimes triple) in order to get to the next song. kinda takes the focus off my job... (that I should be doing instead of slacking off)

Good Luck

Ilia

Something just occurred to me, when playing a song, shouldn't the display show something like "05 of 12" to indicate its playing the 5th track in a list of 12? That would be nice. In fact, I'd also like to see track numbers on the list of songs on an album.

I suspect that the subdir hierachy and naming is not so important for getting the correct album art. What's important is having all of the songs of one album together in one subdir. Well, along with a folder.jpg image and properly named ID3 tags. The artist/album/songs structure is just a good organizational structure for us humans.

Marcello can correct me if I'm wrong :-)

if you are using gstreamer theres no way to do tha ton the device today : / We will take a look on what they are doing (theres other ways to do it, but you need some new player infrastructure), but not playing audio with the default gstreamer is a pain : /

The lock screen problem : is already solved on our dev branch. Will be on beta 9.


Well the tip is not a tip. Theres no "improvements" on getting covers the thing is :

cover works like this :
search for a folder jpg file
Search for embedded cover in mp3s
searches the internet

so if you have the file on the folder it doesn't even matter the organization.

And about the website : I can say that people don't read it

The last.fm problem is already on the known issues see how people don't read things ? so you should just make sure to "disable" shuffle and repeat on the audio player. Fix is under way.

Br

Marcelo

Spice : maybe. this info is important, and may enter soon on the UI.

Br

marcelo

I guess you're right about the site reading. Or maybe, since canola usage is quite straightforward, you can add the "tips" category.

On a completely unrelated topic: thank you for releasing the photoshop layout for the themes; I will create my own in my spare time. afterwards, what do I need to do with the .psd file to make canola see it as a theme?
and 2: is is possible to add a this (1pixel wide) grid to see better where the images finish (i will change the art; need to know the exact size)

Thank you

Ilia

Hi Iliaden :

About the themes: Do you have photoshop right? So, the reason we released the layout is actually because it contains the grid (slices) and correct names already given.

So, if you hit (command+ k) or (control+k on win) you will see the limits (actually they are the real slice guidelines) and you can click with the right button for more info on the slice's name. Once you're done you just need to click : export to web (disable the background first of course) and then you export only the changed slices to a folder.

This will generate your set your images.

the way available today is only with the desktop build on linux, to really test and compile. So we are finishing a tool for windows / mac users that you will get your folder (with the images) upload to our webservice, and get some screenshots of the theme, then you can just download a ready-to-install debian.

Tarkam is also interested in help in this area, so I think it will be fast available.

If you managed to do your theme, maybe in the first one we can compile and send your edj file to you to test on the device ))

We will make a step by step guide for the basic (images) theming ok?

BR

Marcelo