Notices

Originally Posted by YoDude

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.

Originally Posted by YoDude

BTW, being able to browse to a folder and play its contents with MediaBox in the future would be great!

Originally Posted by YoDude

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.

Originally Posted by YoDude

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.

Originally Posted by YoDude

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.

Originally Posted by pycage

...or simply

Code:

rm /home/user/.thumbnails/mediabox/*

The latter command completely wipes the "cache".



...

This sounds to me like a bug in the playlist handling.

Originally Posted by heavyt

I am hearing every now and then (a minute sometimes less) a kind of skip in the audio stream when listening to internet radio. If I switch over to Media player to listen to the same station the audio is skip free. I have noticed that MediaBox seems to use a buffer that is smaller than Media player's buffer (unless MediaBox has a faster buffering system), could that have a bearing on the audio stream?

I have cable internet so download speed is not a factor.

Originally Posted by Laughing Man

Hmm I wound up editting all my id3 tags and it still doesn't show up properly as artist > album. Even though the only remaining tags are artist, album, year, and track # ( killed the other tags).

Originally Posted by Laughing Man

Haha I did use a batch editor (no way I would do it by hand.. though one of my college friends once redid his entire iTunes metadata by hand when drunk though...haha).

The thing is it still shows the artist and album names in the same left column. For some of them it'll list both the artist then their albums (in the same column). Others it just lists the album name and not the artist in that column. Despite my folders being set up in that path of Artist > Album as well as the tags reflecting that (artist, album, track #, year). It's the oddest thing, I can't figure it out (unless what's really stopping it is just the .jpg of an artist. Though the ones that do show up (artist and album in the same column) have artist as a blank cd (because of no .jpg) and the album with whatever album art I have.