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Now in extras-testing. If you've tried it, please vote!

It doesn't work on my N900 . I got this screen when I tried to use jamaendo and nothing else:

Hi Krig,
Excellent looking app you have there. Just tried it out, so far not had any problems with how it functions.
Ok now onto other things.
How did it sync with the actually website as under the settings it only asked for my username and not my password yet it displayed my tagged songs in the favourites?

I'd like to see if possible the ability to scan through a track once you've loaded the player. As when you listen to new music sometimes you flick through it so you can see if it is good without having to listen to whole track (or maybe that's just me).

The search function always returns the same 20 artists/albums/tracks if search field is left blank when you initiate it. How does it determine which 20 it displays? I'd assume by leaving it blank it would list all available under the specified search criteria. Maybe you have it limited to 20 so there is no impact on search performance.

Same applies to radio as it only lists 20, I'm guessing 7 are the most listened to categories and then 13 random others. Also if I select a radio station from the list it is loaded in the player but if I then click on the blue arrow to take me back to radio list I cannot go back to the player from this screen. I will have to either click on the same radio station in the list (which restarts station) or click back to Jamaendo main page where I can select open player from drop down.

One other thing how do I delete a playlist I've created as there is no option?

how do you vote?

Regards, vyper1

http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...jamaendo/0.2-1

Lots of talk and no votes yet.

You have to manually install python-simplejson. The package forgets to request this dependency.

Hmm, that sounds like a showstopper then. It worked fine for me but that's likely because I have alot of applications that use python (dialcentral, gpodder, etc..) so it was probably already installed (didn't catch that myself).

Nice catch, thanks!

I'm working on a new revision which should address most of the issues discovered, hopefully ready this weekend.

New version (0.2.5) in extras-testing now - most things people have mentioned should be fixed.

* Progress indication and background fetching in most/all cases,
should make things clearer when it's talking to the jamendo.com
servers, so it won't seem like the application has hung when it hasn't.

* Skipping in songs (by pressing on the progress bar)

* Playlist viewing and deleting

* And of course, bugfixes...

Naturally, nothing is ever finished. I've measured performance/power drain while using it, and from what I can see there's nothing especially bad about it. The CPU usage is about what I'd expect from a network streaming, music playing application. I get around 9-10% CPU usage from it while playing music, and that's about what it uses running on my laptop as well.

You do build up a mad stack of windows browsing around, unfortunately I'm not exactly sure how to avoid this and still be a Maemo-styled application. Should I put all the windows in a GtkNotebook and just switch between them instead of opening stackable windows? Popping and pushing windows when switching causes stutter and annoying swoosh sounds to play, so I'd rather avoid that.. fellow developers and UI experts, advice is welcome.

Either way, this version is one that I do feel is 'good enough' for general usage. Please try it out and vote!

http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...aendo/0.2.5-1/

I've switched bugtrackers but the garage page doesn't seem to update. Report any found issues or suggestions here:

http://github.com/krig/jamaendo/issues

Why it doesn't need your password: jamendo.com only has a Read-only
API at the moment, so any favorites or playlists you make won't appear
on the website. However, anything you mark as favorite on the website
WILL appear as such on the N900 as well. The playlist support is early
and at the moment, your playlists from the site won't appear on the
device or vice versa.

Other peculiar things - Most of the time I fetch 20 results for each
query. One possibility for the future is to have a "more..."-button at
the end of each list to fetch more results for the same query (this is
not a particularly difficult feature to add, but there's been more
pressing things to do).

What do you mean by mad stack of windows? I wasn't able to trigger more than one window browsing around.

Usage of GtkNotebook is not recommended in Fremantle; the recommended method being to shove everything in a HildonPannableArea. Dunno how well that would work for you...
Maybe it was because GtkNotebook's tabs are too small to hit with the fingers. I guess you could hide them and use a set of GtkToggleButtons that switches the pages if you wish to go that route.