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I have to say, I just tried MediaBox for the first time today and I am very impressed. The interface is clean and functional, scrolling is smooth, and the playlist system is excellent.

Support for things like youtube and last.fm would make it an even stronger alternative to Canola. I am rather surprised by how little press this gets.

However, for me personally, even though my music is painstakingly organized into folders, the lack of ID3-based organization (ie, easily play all from an artist without adding each album to the playlist manually) is a complete dealbreaker. I haven't spent much time with Mediabox but I fear I won't be going to as a result. To me, that's a critical feature. Also -- I may just have missed it, but is there a way to play in random order?

Anyway, excellent work. This is a media player I'll definitely keep an eye on and keep trying.

I've been keeping an eye on the next version to come, Youtube works fine on it along with some new stuff. Very creative and good job !

PyCage, I have a little request, if possible :
When the main menu shows up, would it be possible to have a "now playing" sign on the relevent icone ?

It can be usefull when a sound is playing (from playlist, video, music, fm radio...) while the user is on another part of the app (namely settings, clock or image viewing...). That happens to me often, I wonder for 2 or 3 seconds "Hey, I wanna change tracks... But where do I go ?!"

Thanks for testing the SVN version. Feedback is always welcome.

This is a great idea! I'll put it on my TODO list for 0.96. It shouldn't be too hard to implement.

Would it be possible for you to have support for your Japanese FM Radio frequencies patch in MediaBox, I'm currently running a Diablo kernel with it patched. Although I'm not in Japan (well, I hope to visit), I wonder if any "countrywide groups" broadcast on them frequencies :>

[EDIT] Oddly, I [thought] cannot get my MP3 files to play. Any tips? They play in other software.

There are files that list with ._ added to the front of the original mp3 files names. They do not play. Are they files created in another player perhaps?

I saw that your question has already been answered by GeneralAntilles in another thread. Those files seem to contain Mac-OS meta data stuff and cannot be played.

If you cannot play normal MP3 files, it would be interesting to see the output when you run MediaBox from the X-Terminal. Maybe the osso-media-server got some problem and rebooting helps?

Yes, this option will be in the next release.

Need help for testing your svn:
retrieved the code without a problem but there is no change to v0.95? how do i have to complete the svn on n810/chinook?
Thanks for your help!
mackaroni

What do you mean with "there is no change to 0.95"?
Did you run the version from SVN or by accident the 0.95 that was still on the device?

It makes a huge difference if you run
or

I'm loving the latest svn build. One question. What is the purpose of the star button next to the audio progress bar?