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i have the n770 version. i'm staring at a green screen with a clock

I get an error trying to update through the application menu saying Canola 2 cannot be updated

Where did the Podcast button go?

It's back now. Restarted Canola.

@Benz : Can you send us the log? What device, version of software are you using?

@dbuur : What firmware are you using? HE or Gregale? can you run in verbose? send us something? It does takes a little more on the 770 than the usual, but I can assure you we tested a lot if several devices, several times... etc.

Of course there's a lot (infinite cases actually) when users have several applciations installed that could have messed with some dependency : /

But send us more info we will try to track it down.

Br

MArcelo

/love

thanks

I'm having an issue of Podcasts, I can add the feeds (have tried several different audio and video casts) it updates and then when I go to DL the individual casts it doesn't down load, it goes directly to now playing (opens the player) and nothing further happens. Is there a way to give you a error report by going through Xterm or something ?

"Looks and works great so far. The multiple albums is fixed and appears to be working great, I love the interface on the multiple album entries screen, really looks great and works well."

Thanks for the kind words, for sure is the fuel for the team =)

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Issues:
Only issue I have encountered so far is that when I am listening to a track it stops playing when I am in the configuration adding new internet radio stations.
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Yes, we are aware of that it's in our "Known issues" on the website.. and there's the technical explanation that once you writing in the canola database you must be shure nothing is being used at the time..thus things get closed when saving stations. We will study this for the future releases.


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Some other possible enhancements:
1) An equalizer to change, customize frequency during playback (maybe even a graphic display or visualization too)
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This is a quite nice idea, I think you were the one that first suggested it for us. We want to do it, but it's really down in the priority on our queue : /

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2) Playlist management - someone else said the ability to queue tracks up or at least add them to the currently playing list. Being able to create and modify your own playlists would also be good.
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This is important, and it's coming the time to be implemented. I was the one afraid of doing that wrong and messing up with the whole ui design, but I think we will come with a simple and nice design for that.


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3) Internet Streaming radio (.ra and .rm files) for services like the BBC radio which is already setup within the built in media player
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Funny thing, kenneth told me that this was working, I actually tested with some radio live5 files... we will investigate. It was supposed to be working, but I think you cannot place the .ra or etc directly you need to put the resource for it.


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4) Support album cover art which has been built into mp3 files - I purchased an mp4 file from playpal.fm the other day and the cover art was integrated into the mp3 file.
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It's already on the canola tuning 2.3, but we are having problems to make the package for it. It gets covers embededd on the files, on the folders and from the internet.

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5) Canola can get sluggish when working with podcasts (when switching to and updating) and take some time for the screen to refresh although the downloader now works perfectly - I was able to download podcasts without any errors
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Yes, this is also on the known issues. And this is quite clear : The device reach it's limits. Downloading consume a lots of resources, and when animations happens in canola we really go heavy on cpu, so ... there's no magic to be done here :/

But : we are going to implement a nice queue system for downloads, so only one is downloaded at time (user can increase up to the max of 3 - as we left this release) and this will help make sure the downloadings are not fighting for resources.

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6) Podcast configuration, it would be great to be able to configure where podcasts are saved to
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Yes, this is on the Queue for the next update =)

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7) Podcast auto refreshing, a refresh all or an option to configure canola to refresh all available podcasts (or subset) on a preset schedule would be great.
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Yes, this also.. =) And: auto download, a place to see all downloads, a system icon indicating downloads are happening.
Well a lot of things to make it a nice and usable podcast application. and we will get there in the next 2 releases!

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8) Media directory for podcasts and internet radio i.e. shoutcast.com which allows you to "tune" into 1000's of internet radio stations. This may be something that would be better fitted to a website rather than being built into canola itself - a custom subscription info (xml?) file could be downloaded from the web and read into canola after the user selects everything they want to subscribe to (for example a site like www.gronmayer.com/it for music instead of IT repositories)
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Yes, I think a "directory" with some custom .pls or even rss file generated at the end are the best. We thought of pre setting some but I think we can come up with something and let the users build the resource web site.

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9) Youtube integration - ability to view videos from youtube
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It;s almost ready. : It shows featured, most viewed, you can do search, bookmark, history etc. But for now we are just streaming. Streaming and dowloading it's a little bit more complicated (because of the download issues etc)

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"Everything so far looks great, the fixes to the media configuration screens are great. Once you click enter it goes and acquires the name directly, no more multiple clicks. I can edit the names on the stations and they are saved!! It all looks great.
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Nice!

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All in all it was well worth the wait for this release, heres looking forward to much more improvement and enhancements.

Thanks.
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We are happy to hear that! =) thanks for the nice word in behalf of everyone involved on our side!

Marcelo

I'm using an N810 with OS2008, are you asking for the application manager's log?

i'm using he. it runs, installs components, then i just see a green screen

BEnz: yes. This can help us figure out what's happening so we can help you.

"I'm having an issue of Podcasts, I can add the feeds (have tried several different audio and video casts) it updates and then when I go to DL the individual casts it doesn't down load, it goes directly to now playing (opens the player) and nothing further happens. Is there a way to give you a error report by going through Xterm or something ?"

Unm, so you click the download button. It opens the progress bar and nothing happens? It was supposed to open the progress bar... and after a while you could click the item.

you can try starting canola in the xterm with verbose ( add -vvvvv) but I think this one would be better in other way ( I will forward to kenneth - resposible for the podcast)

BR

Marcelo