Notices

The long wait is over and MediaBox 0.96 is available in the maemo-extras
repository for Chinook and Diablo.

UPnP Streaming



UPnP/DLNA is a great technology for streaming music, videos, and photos to your
tablet. Simply put an UPnP media server in your home network and MediaBox
will discover it automatically for browsing and streaming its contents.

Playlists and media bookmarks

Playlists can be created and edited and are saved automatically. You can reorder
the items at any time, and you can mix audio, videos, and images in a playlist.

You can now also set media bookmarks in any (seekable) file to mark the best
spots and to find the place where you stopped listening to your audio book or
podcast the last time. Simply click on the star-button to set a media bookmark
for the current position.

Shuffle and Repeat

I don't think I need to say much about these features anymore, except that MediaBox
can do it now, too.

Car-Mode



Car-mode is what I call the fullscreen mode of the music player because it's
very handy to use while driving a car. Big buttons for previous, next, and play/pause,
along with big cover-art and a big title label make MediaBox perfect for this
situation. I use this mode frequently with a shuffled playlist when driving.

Themes



It seems like every media center these days needs to be themable. MediaBox
follows this fad so you can give it a new skin by downloading themes from the
maemo-extras repository.

Plugins



MediaBox can be extended with plugins, and I'm going to cover plugin development
later. Some plugins are already available for download:
- a FM radio (for the N800),
- a YouTube browser
- and internet radio with SHOUTcast directory.

hmm, any way to mark a shoutcast entry as favorite?

and do the red stripe in the folder section mean it wont look for that kind of media in that location?

Hi Pycage thanks for this good work and all your efforts to bring about this clean media player, can we remove the svn version and how in other to install this release thanks again U still in mind.

Very nice application.
I am however having a problem with reordering a play list.
I use the icon on the left and drag the item to the top of the list.
So far so good. The new order is there if i move to a different activity and then come back to the playlist.
but if i exit the program and come back the new order has not been saved.
Am i doing it wrong?

Yes, that's what it means.

You can remove the SVN version by removing the directory where to checked out from SVN. You can also leave it there to continue running the latest SVN version. Installing from maemo-extras doesn't conflict with the SVN version, as long as you didn't install the SVN version to /usr/lib/mediabox.

You're doing nothing wrong. This seems like a bug. I'll take a look at it.

Ha the radio is a plug in now...
Let's see if it work.
VERY impressive work. Thank you so much for this very clean player...

Little side question, do you happen to be interested in the (open) Pandora ? Mainly asking to know if we can expect this also on the pandora

Edit: made a little thread about this on the pandora forum.linky

Sure. Get me a device and I'll be happy to make it run there.

Thanks.

I'm currently collecting all your bug reports for 0.96. There'll be a 0.96.1 release before 2009. So let me know what troubles you with 0.96.