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thanks a lot.

It will take me 1-2 weeks to make a theme i'll actually be glad of

and another question just popped: on a n800, with a USB host adapter, is there any way for Canola to see the media that is on an external drive?
note: maemo does see all the data flawlessly.

Should I add a shortcut for the external drive somewhere in flash, or is there another way guaranteed to work?

thank you

Ilia

Hi Illiaden,

Actually we tested this today one ipod connected via USB with more than 10gb of songs, scanning took 1 minute

I think you just need to mount it and it will appear on the media folders
mark for scanning ..

Marcelo

small help required: procedure for mount!!!

in /dev/, I have
usbdev1.4_ep00
usbdev1.4_ep01
usbdev1.4_ep81

It's a 4gb flash drive.

command line instruction plz!

thank you

Ilia

ok... some update on the procedure:
in /dev, the correct file to mount is "sda1"

Q: where to mount?
if I mount on /media/usb, canola doesn't recognize it.
Thinking of mounting on /media/mmc2.
was unable to do this since I'm booting from internal flash card.
unmounted /media/mmc1, mounted /dev/sda1 /media/mmc1
"success" : all the media was recognized; but not what I had on external flash.

any way to make both available?


IMPORTANT NOTE: at the end of this procedure, the bottom buttons disappeared again. (need a screenshot, or what I posted in beta7 is ok?)
another bug noted: loss of cyrilic support. (screenshot below)


Ilia

hi,

sorry, i had the devel version of MPlayer; reinstalled everything
Canola still does not support usb media (unable to add to library from default mount /dev/sda1 /media/usb)
the only player that works flawlessly with usb media is MediaBox. unfortunately it doesn't have the shuffle option.

so my question is: can Canola play usb media, or do I need to mount it on any flash card, in an empty folder?
edit: this procedure allows canloa to see the files, yet it is unable to play them: loading cursor -> disappearance of track indicator & length of media (says 0:00 out of 0:00). I quit canola and unmounted the usb drive from the empty folder.

how did you manage to do it?

Ilia

P.S. I'll redo the test for experimental kinetic scrolling soon.

Hi,

You need to mount the media, there is no way of doing it differently. I did not take a look on MediaBox but for sure it's mounting the device =)

Now, the problem is that you could see the media but was not able to play it. Are these mp3 files ? Could you please try to play this files from the default media player ?

BR,

...and, after you mounted the media and re-started Canola, did you then scan your media folders in the Canola Setup/Utilities menu? (...or, is that only germane to videos?)

After closing a Canola2 Beta8 session, Canola usually can't find my downloaded podcasts when next launched.

I download a podcast and the My Feeds menu puts it in bold. Maybe I listen to part of it. I close Canola, turn off my N800. Later I turn my N800 on again and launch Canola again, and that podcast is no longer bold.

If I am not connected to wifi, I can't play that podcast from Canola: I tap on the unbolded title and nothing happens. I can go to the File Manager and launch the podcast from there; it will open in MPlayer.

If I am connected to wifi, I can tap the Download Link and it will immediately show it as downloaded and go bold. That is, although I can get to it only if I'm connected, it's not really downloading but rather it is discovering the already-downloaded file.

The podcast files are where you would expect them to be: /media/mmc1/My downloads/Podcasts/

Geraldko --

I'm not seeing that behavior here. I usually grab the woot.com podcast before I get to work (and, a couple times, surf the public wifi's along the way, and grab it *while* I'm on my way to work!), and play it later (at work) where I don't have wifi access.

I'm playing this morning's podcast, right now, as I type this reponse....

GeraldKO : this is a really unnexpected behavior... we will try to replicate here, can you send the feed (I know it doesn't matter too much ) but it can help...

Marcelo