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ok... I'll test again. Thanks for reporting the download issue - once again it's something only the "files" mode suffers

I've found some other issue - it seems that when a phone call comes, the playing of song/movie is not paused even though it is set to in the settings panel. In many cases xbmcremote just crashes when that happens.

Will the log help on this case?

Thanks for your help.

Hi again,

I have another issue. When using the search text box in artists or albums, it will only search on those fields, while showing all others: for instance, having an album called 'colony' from 'in flames', If I go to albums and search for 'in flames' it won't show anything, but searching for 'colony' will show the album (with the artist text). Doing the search in artists the other way round has the same results.

It would be nice if you could search for both album & artist in both cases. This is particulary usefull for music and the default music player app does the exact same thing.

Suggestions: the download option is very handy, specially to copy music from xbmc to the n9, but when copying album, can you include the cover (cover.jpg in the folder)? so the n9 music player will recognize it?

Thanks,

Finally got a chance to use the latest version from ovi, some feedbacks:

- the joystick implementation is really nice much better than the previous method.
- didn't know there is tap-hold for sub-menus which is very useful, "mark as watched/unwatched" would be useful. I couldn't find anything about this from JSON-RPC API v4 but the keyboard shortcut for this is 'W'.
- the keyboard is handy, swiping down doesn't close it though.
- Tap-hold and drag for fast walking is a bit weird to use (default is really fast), I think the better option is dragging to a direction and hold (vibrates twice) and the stepping accelerates slowly.
- the back arrow could be in place of the playback menu, this way it's more intuitive for navigation (in my case as I don't use this menu at all).
- Please add an option to hide statusbar to prevent burn-in in case the screen is lid too long.

- Perhaps you could take a look of this style of navigating. This would fit the UX of harmattan nicely.
- In bright mode, control arrows are a bit difficult to see but joystick usage doesn't affect by this though.
-Thanks

Maybe I should take time to add my music collection to xbmc now, it's a total mess atm though.

Which device are you using? The N9 has an OLED display and these displays don't have the burn-in problem.

I've also found a small bug where the timer on the 'playing' page keeps ticking even after the currently playing item has ended. When I'm watching a 10 minute video the timer will keep running after it reaches the endtime. So it just keeps counting 10:01, 10:02 and so on, while the duration is correctly displayed as being 10:00.

The timer also seems to be off for about 20 seconds after seeking. When I click in the progressbar to seek the progressbar is about 20 seconds off with the time displayed in XBMC. So the timer in the app is displaying 10:00 while XBMC displays 10:20.

Both are some small annoyances which don't have a high priority. I might even try to fix them myself and will send you the patches.

I have the N9 and after a long time usage of fbreader, the statusbar has burned in. It's visible on bright background (in landscape). Most of the time it doesn't matter since the phone is in portrait and the statusbar is there anyway.

I tried it can't connect to host. I'm using Mac OSx Snow Leopard with XBMC V11.0 Eden and latest XBMC remote app. What should I do?

- Port routing ?

Below is my configuration for Network

I'm thinking of buying some Mifare Ultralight NFC stickers, but I'm wondering how well these play with this app. When I scan a tag written by this app, does it automatically send a WOL packet to the device? I'm using OpenELEC so XBMC already does autostart when the PC starts. I've also got a Pulse-Eight HDMI-CEC adapter to have some interaction between (the remote of) the TV and the PC running XBMC. By using this small device the TV gets automatically switched on from standby when XBMC starts.

If I could just scan a NFC tag to start my HTPC and my TV that would be just awesome. So is this possible?

Well, xbmcremote does support this, however Myfare ultralight chips provide only 48Bytes of storage which is not enough to store all the needed informations. In this case it skips the mac address used for wakeonlan.

So the bottomline is: Yes, xbmcremote can do it, but if you want wakeonlan, you have to use a larger chip. A NFC Tag Type 1, which has 96 bytes should be enough.