Re: MediaBox Media Center V 0.90
 

Can't say I'm too impressed at first try:

1. Slow to load
2. Interface not very intuitive, e.g. no player controls apparent (play/stop/pause etc)
3. Doesn't respond to any of the N800 buttons
4. Video playback performance seems much worse than mplayer standalone
5. Can't add a new folder under Settings - program just exits without error message

Ok, it's a 0.9 release, but this seems like pretty basic stuff for a media player.

Oh, and last but not least, on first reboot after installing Mediabox my N800 is now trashed and goes into a permanent loop on power-up. Removing the battery doesn't help. Any other suggestions before I re-install firmware? :mad:

Re: MediaBox Media Center V 0.90
 

Has anyone figured out how to keep the program from hanging when it looks for media files? I still have to use the built in media player because MediaBox hangs. Am I the only one having this problem a this point?

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Hopefully the next release 0.93 won't hang. I didn't experience any hanging with it so far and am going to release soon.

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I'll be honest and say that i quite like it.
-Video plays smoothly, scrolls smoothly through them
-Music plays back fine,scrollls smoothly. One cpomplaint could be that you can only browse by artist-album-song...but thats the only way i do it.
-Photos...smooth,simple,fast. i like the kinetic scrolling while zoomed in.
-Overall simple to use,easy to install for me, and a nice program

only thing is,its a hog. slows everything down (browsing+this=pain). but then i just use the built in media player.

I like this more then kagu or canola. good stuff. excited to see where it goes

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Ok, I loaded every single media player available and Media Box is the one that stays on my machine. It lets me pick my music how I want, works with cover art and ID3 tags.

All the other players have problems I can't live with. Canola can't find oggs. UKMP simply can't play them except in short bursts, gmplayer's interface only plays one song at a time, the built in player is nice for video, but Media Box is way better. Kagu refused to run. I have to add mplayer back in to get some more of my video to run, but that should be no problem.

I have suggestions already.
-For one, a play list would be nice. Maybe check boxes on songs to play.

-The radio needs headphones to tune a radio station, but the standard radio desktop applet lets you pick speakers even while the headphones are plugged in. It would be nice to have this functionality in Media Box.

- The play button on the album covers should be visually distinct from the actual play button that plays the song. Maybe a black dot and when you open an album, it changes to a black circle of the same size? Like a radio button in HTML? Or........ Make it autostart the first song in the folder, then it would actually be a "play album" button.

Anyways, Media Box is far and away the best player on the tablet today.

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I concur. I really wanted canola to be 'it' but for the very reasons you outline here, MediaBox gets my vote. Keep up the good work.

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According to the release notes, the newest version (.94 I think) does this.

I'm still waiting for playlists tho. :)

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My thoughts/observations:
- The UI is attractive. Very slick.
- Scrolling folders on the left and music on the right makes it quick to switch songs, but I'd really like a way to create a playlist. (None of the other programs let me do it, either, so I guess I can't really knock this.)
- A lot of my songs show up as complete blanks with a play icon. They have ID3 info, so I'm not sure what that's about.
- I'm annoyed that you can't select anything (albums, photos, anything) unless you hit the tiny 'play' button in the corner of the icon. I guess maybe that was done to increase the accuracy of the kinetic scrolling (which does work well.)
- Video performance seems worse with this than with Gmplayer or even Canola.

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I like the checkbox idea. Thanks a lot for this suggestion! :D

MediaBox 0.94 can do this now. The button icon for this is still butt-ugly, but functional. ;)

Radio button? Your idea is not bad... thanks!
But autostarting might cause problems when you want to create a playlist, once this is implemented.


I love reading such quotes. :D

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Can you please give more details about the songs where the ID3 tags don't show up? Do they contain special characters or some special encoding?