Notices

Can't say I'm too impressed at first try:

1. Slow to load
2. Interface not very intuitive, e.g. no player controls apparent (play/stop/pause etc)
3. Doesn't respond to any of the N800 buttons
4. Video playback performance seems much worse than mplayer standalone
5. Can't add a new folder under Settings - program just exits without error message

Ok, it's a 0.9 release, but this seems like pretty basic stuff for a media player.

Oh, and last but not least, on first reboot after installing Mediabox my N800 is now trashed and goes into a permanent loop on power-up. Removing the battery doesn't help. Any other suggestions before I re-install firmware?

Has anyone figured out how to keep the program from hanging when it looks for media files? I still have to use the built in media player because MediaBox hangs. Am I the only one having this problem a this point?

Hopefully the next release 0.93 won't hang. I didn't experience any hanging with it so far and am going to release soon.

I'll be honest and say that i quite like it.
-Video plays smoothly, scrolls smoothly through them
-Music plays back fine,scrollls smoothly. One cpomplaint could be that you can only browse by artist-album-song...but thats the only way i do it.
-Photos...smooth,simple,fast. i like the kinetic scrolling while zoomed in.
-Overall simple to use,easy to install for me, and a nice program

only thing is,its a hog. slows everything down (browsing+this=pain). but then i just use the built in media player.

I like this more then kagu or canola. good stuff. excited to see where it goes

Ok, I loaded every single media player available and Media Box is the one that stays on my machine. It lets me pick my music how I want, works with cover art and ID3 tags.

All the other players have problems I can't live with. Canola can't find oggs. UKMP simply can't play them except in short bursts, gmplayer's interface only plays one song at a time, the built in player is nice for video, but Media Box is way better. Kagu refused to run. I have to add mplayer back in to get some more of my video to run, but that should be no problem.

I have suggestions already.
-For one, a play list would be nice. Maybe check boxes on songs to play.

-The radio needs headphones to tune a radio station, but the standard radio desktop applet lets you pick speakers even while the headphones are plugged in. It would be nice to have this functionality in Media Box.

- The play button on the album covers should be visually distinct from the actual play button that plays the song. Maybe a black dot and when you open an album, it changes to a black circle of the same size? Like a radio button in HTML? Or........ Make it autostart the first song in the folder, then it would actually be a "play album" button.

Anyways, Media Box is far and away the best player on the tablet today.

I concur. I really wanted canola to be 'it' but for the very reasons you outline here, MediaBox gets my vote. Keep up the good work.

According to the release notes, the newest version (.94 I think) does this.

I'm still waiting for playlists tho.

My thoughts/observations:
- The UI is attractive. Very slick.
- Scrolling folders on the left and music on the right makes it quick to switch songs, but I'd really like a way to create a playlist. (None of the other programs let me do it, either, so I guess I can't really knock this.)
- A lot of my songs show up as complete blanks with a play icon. They have ID3 info, so I'm not sure what that's about.
- I'm annoyed that you can't select anything (albums, photos, anything) unless you hit the tiny 'play' button in the corner of the icon. I guess maybe that was done to increase the accuracy of the kinetic scrolling (which does work well.)
- Video performance seems worse with this than with Gmplayer or even Canola.

I like the checkbox idea. Thanks a lot for this suggestion!

MediaBox 0.94 can do this now. The button icon for this is still butt-ugly, but functional.

Radio button? Your idea is not bad... thanks!
But autostarting might cause problems when you want to create a playlist, once this is implemented.


I love reading such quotes.

Can you please give more details about the songs where the ID3 tags don't show up? Do they contain special characters or some special encoding?