Notices

Why is it unlikely that there will be a Rhapsody version for the N900? I'm curious about the reasoning.

Rhapsody.com works using the browser. Have you tried it? The only issue for me is that the pop-up player window does not always open correctly when first clicking the PLAY button icon. I have figured out how to get it to work, though.

Click PLAY. You should see the dotted frame show or the button seem like it was selected. Most likely nothing will happen at this point. THEN, scroll the page all the way to the top. This seems to trigger some sort of refresh that forces the pop-up to display in a new browser window.

In portrait mode and on wi-fi, the player is neat. 3G there is a lot of delay, especially if you are in a moving vehicle.

Just an update on the OS2008 app:

I've gotten it to install using the directions above. However, you need two other apps as well.

You need all of these:

http://repository.maemo.org/catalogu....0.8_armel.deb
http://repository.maemo.org/catalogu....0.6_armel.deb
http://repository.maemo.org/catalogu...3.14_armel.deb
http://repository.maemo.org/catalogu...3.14_armel.deb

Kyle's fake libhildon is at:

http://pbx.org/~kyle/libhildonhelp.so.0

sudo gainroot, cd to wherever you put the files (i did /media/mmc1)

and then do the following:

cp libhildonhelp.so.0 /usr/lib

dpkg -i --force-all rhapsody-remote_1.1.6_armel.deb
dpkg -i --force-all rhapsodyapplet_1.1.7_armel.deb
dpkg -i --force-all rhapsody-player_3.3.14_armel.deb
dpkg -i --force-all rhapsody_3.3.14_armel.deb

dpkg will complains about libosso not being present. That said, it will run.

It will not, however, log in successfully. I know the credentials I am entering are correct, and it fails. So perhaps it depends on something in libhildonhelp or libosso for the actual network transport?

I'm out of my depth at this point. Anyone else have any ideas?

And yeah, I've gotten the web version to work, but its very unwieldy to do so. Not usable at all for streaming music in the car, which is what I want it to do. Same with Pandora's website, unfortunately.

Hopefully the update to Flash 10.1 which is coming to us at some point will include AIR, at which point the pandora desktop app (and a whole host of other AIR apps) will be available.

And I think that AIR has something to do with the ability to play audiobooks from Audible.com.

The ability to play books from Audible.com, compatibility with other Palm apps, and the ability to easily work with Rhapsody are all things that worked well with the N800 and N810 that we've lost with the N900.