Notices

Making a full scan optional would be a killer addition to UKMP. Also being able to specify folders to scan would help as well.

I have a 40GB hard disk connected to my 770, with about 36gb of MP3's on there, and for UKMP to scan everytime makes the app just about unusable unfortunately. It often crashes after several minutes of scanning - I know my situation's a bit extreme, but....

I'm going to pull down and install the 1.7 alpha to try later on, as the look of it is simply stunning.

keep up the good work.

Gaz

About the layout, how about implementing MaemoFlow into UKMP? Or would that piss off Apple too much?

Ton (MAC user).

I've fixed this problem.

• mplayer has a bug where it can't render a single frame - the same issue affects Freevo: change "-frames 1" to "-frames 2" and copy 00000002.jpg to the appropriate filename.
• The thumbnails are only ever shown at 160x160, change "-scale 320:-3" to "-scale 160:-3": the file size is about a third what it was before. On a device with limited space and CPU, this makes a big difference.
• If you've got lots of (say) TV episodes ripped from DVDs, 30s can be the same frame in each. Change the start of the command to the following:

You'll have to "rm /media/mmc1/covers/*.avi.jpg" to rescan the images.

Hope that helps,

Andrew

Jaffa / aflegg:
Thanks!
Just tested it out and it's working great. Although the python syntax for random startpos=str(random.randint(18,40))
but anyhow.

I also agree for the 160... for now. I was planning to show the clip in larger size for the user along with some file details, but I don't think that'll happen for a while, so I might go for the fast route. A good idea.

Toontje:
Yeah, well... maemoflow... yeah. Would be kind of nice, but I feel my approach is actually better for touch screen use. The coverflow looks better, but being able to select any album on screen with one click has its advantages. Also, n800/770 don't have the horse power or memory to do that. With a few precalculated frams the coverflow effect could easily be done on 770, but it'll consume 3-4 times more mem than it does at the moment, so I guess it's out of the question for now.

As for 36 gigs of mp3s on 770. ... Whoah. I guess 770 will run out of memory for the cover images. You might try opening ukmp also from xterm. When it crashes, you could copy paste the last few lines of the xterm to me. It would help a lot.

Hi guys,

I just uploaded a new version. I just had half an hour to do changes, so they are pretty minor ones. Jaffas stuff has been integrated, I didn't have the time to make the buttons look as suggested, but that'll come. I added larger album titles, video titles and also on the song list view, I added artist name and album name in big friendly letters. I'll add reflections to the letters later on. that should look sweet.

Hmm... clip names are now automatically cleaned up a bit. I'll add multiline name support in the future.

Ok. Off to bed now. A busy day ahead.

Hi,

quickly on alpha2:

When in cover window the time doesn't update correctly if you move forward/backward. Music plays fine though. If you change to song view it updates instantly.

The play/pause button doesn't change (toggles) unless you press again a little on the side. It works fine simply the image doesn't change.

Finally, if you have only a couple of albums the images get hidden on the left. (already been said I think.)

tnx a lot.

Time update rendering is a bit of a performance issue at the moment. Updating the entire progress bar takes so much time that it affects the performance of the scrolling. Thus it's done only in idle states for now. I'll try to improve the situation in the future though.

Jaffas and Saturns report:
If you've only got four or five albums, only three are completely visible, the previous two can only just be seen off the left of the screen.

Has just been fixed to the code, so it'll be fixed for the next version.

Play/pause button problem is something that I'll try to remember when I modify the icons to be more button like.

Hello,

I tried the alpha2 last night and its realy cool ! You've maid a great job in a short time.

The only problem for me is that I can't play music from a share or upnp server. It must be difficult to add upnp suport but would it be possible to add a buffer option (in a prefs screen) to be able to play music from a cifs share ?

I can read music on a cifs share mounted under Mydocs/.documents but there is some lag on files with 128kbps+ rate.

That would be a great improvement I think

BTW congratulations for your job

Hi Konttori.

I downloaded the 1.7beta2 and here are my remarks...

1) Great look I also preffer the play pause buttons on the bottom.
2) Hard to finger scroll the covers. I'm always selecting an album instead of scrolling... I don't know where to touch the screen to scroll with my finger so I have to use the stylus and point in betwween (2mm) album covers. Maybe you need to reduce the zone for album selection (i.e. not the entire album cover but 50% of it in the center or maybe my fingers are too fat...
3) Song display ordering is wrong one column out of 2 i.e here is what it looks like
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song 1 | song 4 | song 7 | song 10 |
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song 3 | song 5 | song 9 | song 11 |
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song 2 | song 6 | song 8 | song 12 |
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so song 3 and song 2 are inverted same goes with 9 and 8

4) Video mode... video pictures are effectively made (I see that happen during scanning) but none are shown in the video scrolling windows. Video file names are all packed on top of each other on the last line on the bottom left of the screen.... So there is nothing scrollable... (been this way for me since 1.6 by the way...)

Keep up the good work

I encounter a wierd bug in that everything works except the wrong song plays when I tap the song name?? It's like a completely different album is selected or the ID tags have become messed up?