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Dopehead.NL	2007-12-20 , 20:42
Posts: 13 \| Thanked: 0 times \| Joined on Aug 2007	#171

How can Nokia or Maemo not have forseen this, people were all over the OS2008 and Canola forum for days.
The number of hits these forums have generated the past 2 weeks should have been a nice indicator for what was to happen on release day.
In the meantime I have now 8 consecutive failed installs

I say : its a job badly done, I know my boss would not be amused If I treated our users like this.

	fpp	2007-12-20 , 20:43
	Posts: 2,853 \| Thanked: 968 times \| Joined on Nov 2005	#172

Originally Posted by GreySim

If anyone was playing around with the Python EFL bindings and whatnot before trying to install the new Canola, do be aware that there may be package conflicts between 'python-efl-core' and 'python2.5-efl-core', and removing 'python-efl-core' before installing Canola may save you a lot of headache. :P

Thanks (in advance :-) for saving me some head-scratching when I finally get through to the repos, as I do have the demos installed...

GreySim	2007-12-20 , 20:44
Posts: 41 \| Thanked: 6 times \| Joined on Nov 2007	#173

Originally Posted by wetcoast

GreySim: thanks for the config file info; mplayer I confirm is now being used.

barbieri: Unfortunately I'm getting a failure dialog: "Unable to install ogg-support-lightmediascanner".

Any thoughts?

Try this:

add http://tuomas.kulve.fi/debian bora maemo and install my deb:
http://kenneth.christiansen.googlepa..._0.3_armel.deb
this should give you OGG support

(If that's what you tried earlier, it was updated since then, from 0.1 to 0.2.)

Last edited by GreySim; 2007-12-21 at 15:27. Reason: 0.2 to 0.3

wetcoast	2007-12-20 , 21:03
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GreySim: - with the updated lms for ogg, no joy still. It appears to install, but rescanning the media fails to pick up any .ogg files.

I shut down C2, rm -rf /home/user/.canola, restarted device even for good measure, and restarted following the lms install.

edit: In case its helpful -- I constructed a playlist, simply a m3u file which each entry is the full path to the media, and while the entries are displayed, "File not found" is returned by Canola2 when attempting to play.

Last edited by wetcoast; 2007-12-20 at 21:10.

GreySim	2007-12-20 , 21:18
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Originally Posted by wetcoast

GreySim: - with the updated lms for ogg, no joy still. It appears to install, but rescanning the media fails to pick up any .ogg files.

I shut down C2, rm -rf /home/user/.canola, restarted device even for good measure, and restarted following the lms install.

edit: In case its helpful -- I constructed a playlist, simply a m3u file which each entry is the full path to the media, and while the entries are displayed, "File not found" is returned by Canola2 when attempting to play.

I'll keep you posted and update my posts about this if a new version comes out while I'm still awake, but I've no clue beyond that. I don't even have a working copy of C2 yet, since I'm on the 770. :P

If you wanna get the information straight from the source, you could lurk in IRC on irc.freenode.net in #canola. That's what I'm doing, really.

wetcoast	2007-12-20 , 21:33
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Thanks - will see if I can find some time to lurk; although heading out for a trip early in the am and should probably redirect some IT effort towards packing.

	amigokin	2007-12-20 , 21:34
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I don't know if this was asked before but... What I have to do to tell Canola2 how to read my mp3 covers? They are inside the MP3 file and I have two extra .JPG in each album folder, one with the name of the folder and with the name "Folder.JPG". None seems to work because Canola keeps showing the default musical note cover.

Thanks!

Last edited by amigokin; 2007-12-20 at 21:40.

GreySim	2007-12-20 , 21:49
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Originally Posted by amigokin

I don't know if this was asked before but... What I have to do to tell Canola2 how to read my mp3 covers? They are inside the MP3 file and I have two extra .JPG in each album folder, one with the name of the folder and with the name "Folder.JPG". None seems to work because Canola keeps showing the default musical note cover.

Thanks!

I posted earlier in this thread with a link to a script that handles that, although I'm not sure how it works. I know it pulls the data from online sources and will ignore your existing covers, unfortunately (I keep my covers as cover.jpg in the folders myself), but Canola would need to resize those anyway, so you'd end up having to do some kind of conversion or run some script anyway probably, so it may as well be one that gets new images and resizes them.

I would look into how it works and all, but I'm probably about to pass out for a few hours, so good luck! If you get it to work and it's not obvious how, you should share your experience with it.

	amigokin	2007-12-20 , 21:52
	Posts: 230 \| Thanked: 35 times \| Joined on Mar 2007	#179

Originally Posted by GreySim

I posted earlier in this thread with a link to a script that handles that, although I'm not sure how it works. I know it pulls the data from online sources and will ignore your existing covers, unfortunately (I keep my covers as cover.jpg in the folders myself), but Canola would need to resize those anyway, so you'd end up having to do some kind of conversion or run some script anyway probably, so it may as well be one that gets new images and resizes them.

I would look into how it works and all, but I'm probably about to pass out for a few hours, so good luck! If you get it to work and it's not obvious how, you should share your experience with it.

But is there ANY way to tell Canola to read my existing locally stored covers?

GreySim	2007-12-20 , 22:09
Posts: 41 \| Thanked: 6 times \| Joined on Nov 2007	#180

Originally Posted by amigokin

But is there ANY way to tell Canola to read my existing locally stored covers?

I'm not 100% positive, but probably 90% sure that the answer is no. If I remember what I read correctly earlier, that would require resampling the cover, which would degrade performance or something. You could put up a feature request for, say, LMS to build a cover cache with resampled images generated as media gets scanned, instead of on the fly, which might work, but I'm not sure. I really can barely keep my eyes open at this point though, so good luck.