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Yes, there are currently separate logins needed, as the systems used are too different.

ok..i gave a thumbs up to the app..hope this helps..anything else i need to do? xtras or xtras-testing..the app is helpful no doubt!!

Thanks to all the testers, Sleeper now has enough votes and should show up in Extras this weekend :-)

I've created a patch to support stopping the FM Radio application (D-Bus support for FM Radio has been integrated by Martin in SVN - I don't know when he will release a new version with the D-Bus interface, but the support is there). It seems like FM Radio 2010.03.15 will include D-Bus support from what I can see in the SVN history for the project.

There does not seem to be a source code repository for Sleeper (yet?), so I just grabbed the latest source, and did my patch on top of the current release. I've published the patch in the newly-added section "Patches" on Sleeper's wiki page.

Tom: It would be nice if you could merge this patch in one of the next releases and remove it from the Wiki page after a version of Sleeper with this patch merged (if you don't object to its contents, of course) has entered Extras-Devel.

This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks to those who made this application.

Is there any chance someone could make a variation of 'sleeper' to turn the media player off completely? Wouldn't that be better for battery life?

Not really. The media player already updates its UI only when it's really necessary (as you can easily see when switching from/to the media player in the task switcher or when locking the screen). It does (or should do) "nothing" when playback is paused/stopped. A sleeping/blocked process does not take any CPU cycles. It just takes up main memory.

Also, stuff like MAFW (the backend that is responsible for actually playing the media files) keeps running in background (again, only taking up memory, not CPU cycles) even when the "Media Player" (the UI) is closed. You can check this with "ps ax" on the command line. (This is also the reason why Media Player and the Browser start up that fast - parts of them are kept in memory, sleeping and waiting to be activated.)

besides you don't exactly know where your music ended, when the mediaplayer is closed after pausing

In the next version, I will add FM-Radio support plus an option to completely shutdown your N900. That will maximize the power savings :-)

Grin@thp about your wishlist item: has been in mind, too. Will try over the weekend, should be easy.
- Retrieve current value
- Fade out
- Pause everything
- Reset volume to initial value
- (Shutdown)

Don't forget that (at least back in the N8x0 days) a shutdown/power-on cycle will cost you several days of standby time (some Nokia employee said so in a bug report comment AFAIR). I don't know if that still holds true for the N900 as well, though.