Notices

Currently if you have lots of music you might not be able to add all to a playlist due to some limitation to keep thing responsive. The next version will be better at that. I'm also thinking of a special playlist that already contains all your music.

Where does mediabox read the album art from...does it read embedded?

It reads it embedded from MP3 ID3v2 tags or from an image file in the same directory as the audio file.

Hi there,

I would love to use MediaBox to listen to my music but can't seem to get it to organize my files the way I would like. Any ideas?

I can't figure out why it organizes many of my files with the correct genre, etc., but not all of them.

I use Windows Media Player on my desktop and have a fairly large collection (about 8 GB), all very well organized in Windows Media Player, with accurate tags, but in MediaBox, oddly, only some of my organization is recognized.

As an example, I have dozens of audio books in my Audio Book genre, but only one of them is accessible through the genre path in MediaBox. For the others, I have to locate them through the author(artist). Same for Christmas music.

I have tried reinstalling and reindexing many times.

I can't seem to find any differences between these files, but MediaBox seems to not see the tag information on some. Also, I think this might be the same reason that not all of my cover art is recognized, even though I can't seem to find any difference in how I have saved the cover art in Windows Media Player.

Any help would be very much appreciated. I am not sure if this is the right place to post this question, but I have read through this thread (and several others) in search of help, and this seemed to be the best place.

Thank you in advance,
Nicole

What kind of files? mp3? ogg? wma?
Happens to only one filetype?
Forget windows media player, have you tryed using a decent audio manager/tag editor? mp3 has different tag standards, are you sure all your files use the same standard (ID3V2)?

WMA tags are not supported by MediaBox at the moment.
ID3 tags (all versions), Ogg tags and FLAC tags are supported.

Hi pycage,

after installing MediaBox it superseded the built-in media player - thanks for that :-)
But one thing left: I'm VERY interested in the UPnP AV server function that allows me to stream my media on the phone to another media renderer in the network. Unfortunately there's no GUPnP-Media-Renderer (which was tested) in the network - neither in mine, nor in my buddies' networks. I tried to push MP3s to WMP 12, XBMC & Foobar2k - all renderers were found by MediaBox, but nothing happened when I selected another renderer than the local one. The actual tune paused ... and a dark silence was around me - DAMN! ;-)
So is there any possibility to get one of the three called media renderers to work with MediaBox? That'd be AWWWSOME! :-D

Thanks in advance,
N(9)00bie

The Media Renderer support is still very fresh and yet needs to be fine-tuned with more renderers. Thanks for listing some renderers.

Hi pycage,

thanks for your answer.
I just tested the renderer 'TMMPlayer' that comes along with Twonky Media Manager - same problem here.
I experienced following: when a MP3 is played in MediaBox, no matter wich renderer I'm going to select (even the LOCAL one), the MP3 is immediately set to 'PAUSED'. Is this behaviour intended? So maybe the renderes aren't the real problem, but the pausing of the media file? :-)

N(9)00bie

Any way to get MediaBox to index AAC (.m4a) files? I know in Canola you have to include paths containing aac in your "Video folders" to get them indexed[1] -- is there perhaps a similar trick in MediaBox?

Obviously they show up in filesystem browse mode, and play just fine, but two thirds of my music doesn't show up in Albums and Artists.

Also, MediaBox doesn't seem to be capable of reading embedded album art from .m4a files, a shortcoming apparently shared with Canola.

1. Reference: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=181