Ok, this is my last hope to solving a weird problem I'm having with the builtin Media Player (N810 OS2008 50-2). The library is completely empty (No Artists, No Albums, No Songs etc...) and won't register any of the mp3, oggs or video that I have on my SD card.

It will however recognize a playlist (m3u) and play songs from the playlist (mp3 and ogg alike).

I have recently (in the last week) upgraded my .ogg support so I'm not sure if that has anything to do it or not.

Any ideas for a fix? I can't find a download for osso-media-player anywhere and I'd really, really rather not reflash.

Is my osso-media-server broken? Are my MIME types broken - I know Kulve has been working on MIME types?

Thanks bunches

Did you ever solve this problem? I have the same problem after I installed KDE (the easy version). I thought It was Canola2 Beta2 but your post was way before that came out.

Ex: I did not install that ogg update

Nope... Never solved this issue. I just decided to start using XMMS as my music player instead (it works in KDE also and is a better player as well) - I just love having that EQ. I do also have KDE installed - "hard" boot from MMC version - not the .deb version although that shouldn't really make a difference. Perhaps something in using KDE is messing up these Mime types.

FWIW - I have found that if you make a playlist first and then start Media Player that it will recognize your playlist and then you can play media from the playlist.

thanks for the reply , I posted in KDE forums too and asked because I'm trying to eliminate the possibility that it is becasue of the KDE install. I only Use KDE mostly for koffice apps. And it is a hassle for me to boot it up just to play mp3s. Canola 2 won't play Mp3s anymore too after KDE install. Eitherway I'll take a look at XMMS. I am still new to Linux thing.

thanks again

Just to be clear... you can use XMMS in Maemo as well as KDE.

I haven't tried the newest version Canola2, but I know for sure that Canola2 (beta1) was working with KDE installed before. I was starting Canola2 from xterm in KDE. Have you tried starting Canola2 in xterm (in either Maemo or KDE)? If so do you get any error messages? I can't remember when Media Player quit working in relation to KDE.

I'll just add a note to this thread that just yesterday after the default media player in OS 08 worked fine for three months, all of the sudden it stopped automatically finding my music. All this time I have had kDE installed. Last night I installed Canola2 and it works fine so far. It has tools to command it to find music whereas apparently the default media player does not, or at least I can't find such. Funny thing about this is that there are three songs that default Media Player finds, but not the rest. I have not done anything recently to my N800, no installations or uninstalls. On another side note, I tried using Kjukebox in KDE which works fine by automatically finding my music, but when I plug in my headphones the sound does not switch over to the headphones from the built in speakers.

Neil

Is your metalayer crawler running?

Ok, I knew there was such a thing as this, but please tell me how to find out if it is running or not, thanks, Neil

Try "ps -la | grep metalayer" in terminal.

I cannot test as I keep mine disabled on purpose.

Or if you have that cpu-applet with process lists, it shows in there too.

BTW, I have load -applet installed. It shows a program running called mediaplayer-engine. That wouldn't be the metalayer crawler you mention, would it? It shows as 0 % load on that app. though.

Neil