Media Player won't find any files
 

Ok, this is my last hope to solving a weird problem I'm having with the builtin Media Player (N810 OS2008 50-2). The library is completely empty (No Artists, No Albums, No Songs etc...) and won't register any of the mp3, oggs or video that I have on my SD card.

It will however recognize a playlist (m3u) and play songs from the playlist (mp3 and ogg alike).

I have recently (in the last week) upgraded my .ogg support so I'm not sure if that has anything to do it or not.

Any ideas for a fix? I can't find a download for osso-media-player anywhere and I'd really, really rather not reflash.

Is my osso-media-server broken? Are my MIME types broken - I know Kulve has been working on MIME types?

Thanks bunches :D

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

Did you ever solve this problem? I have the same problem after I installed KDE (the easy version). I thought It was Canola2 Beta2 but your post was way before that came out.

Ex: I did not install that ogg update

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

Nope... Never solved this issue. I just decided to start using XMMS as my music player instead (it works in KDE also and is a better player as well) - I just love having that EQ. I do also have KDE installed - "hard" boot from MMC version - not the .deb version although that shouldn't really make a difference. Perhaps something in using KDE is messing up these Mime types.

FWIW - I have found that if you make a playlist first and then start Media Player that it will recognize your playlist and then you can play media from the playlist.

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

thanks for the reply , I posted in KDE forums too and asked because I'm trying to eliminate the possibility that it is becasue of the KDE install. I only Use KDE mostly for koffice apps. And it is a hassle for me to boot it up just to play mp3s. Canola 2 won't play Mp3s anymore too after KDE install. Eitherway I'll take a look at XMMS. I am still new to Linux thing.

thanks again

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

Just to be clear... you can use XMMS in Maemo as well as KDE.

I haven't tried the newest version Canola2, but I know for sure that Canola2 (beta1) was working with KDE installed before. I was starting Canola2 from xterm in KDE. Have you tried starting Canola2 in xterm (in either Maemo or KDE)? If so do you get any error messages? I can't remember when Media Player quit working in relation to KDE.

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

I'll just add a note to this thread that just yesterday after the default media player in OS 08 worked fine for three months, all of the sudden it stopped automatically finding my music. All this time I have had kDE installed. Last night I installed Canola2 and it works fine so far. It has tools to command it to find music whereas apparently the default media player does not, or at least I can't find such. Funny thing about this is that there are three songs that default Media Player finds, but not the rest. I have not done anything recently to my N800, no installations or uninstalls. On another side note, I tried using Kjukebox in KDE which works fine by automatically finding my music, but when I plug in my headphones the sound does not switch over to the headphones from the built in speakers.

Neil

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

Is your metalayer crawler running?

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

Ok, I knew there was such a thing as this, but please tell me how to find out if it is running or not, thanks, Neil

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

Try "ps -la | grep metalayer" in terminal.

I cannot test as I keep mine disabled on purpose.

Or if you have that cpu-applet with process lists, it shows in there too.

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

BTW, I have load -applet installed. It shows a program running called mediaplayer-engine. That wouldn't be the metalayer crawler you mention, would it? It shows as 0 % load on that app. though.

Neil

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

load-applet, that's it :P

I'm v.sure metalayer-crawler isn't mediaplayer-engine. I'd test but this install of openssh is taking up my cpucycles and not letting me load anything.

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

I entered this ( as root) into xterminal as you suggested and got :

1888 RW grep metalayer

I don't know how to interpret that response. Any help there?

Neil

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

"ps -la | grep metalayer-crawler" - what does that say? I don't think it will say much though.

I checked, it is metalayer-crawler. Not metalayer.

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

It says " 1888 RW grep metalayer-crawler"

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

yes, I thought so. metalayer-crawler isnt running:
1888 RW grep metalayer-crawler"

That's the command we just ran.

Try running /usr/bin/metalayer-crawler . And see if media player works then.
if not found, try sbin instead of bin

Its not a fix however, check the /etc/rc2 folder.

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

Hey man, thanks very much for the help. that command solved my problem. The default media player now finds my tunes again.

KUDOS

Neil

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

I'm glad it works but I don't think it will run on reboot :)

Do this:
ln -s /etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0 /etc/rc2.d/S99metalayer-crawler0
ln -s /etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0 /etc/rc5.d/S99metalayer-crawler0

as root in terminal :)

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

Oops, after rebooting the default media player is empty again. So check ect/rc2 folder now? What am I looking for?

Neil

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

Just run the above commands as root :)

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

OK, I input both of these commands. The first set response was "file exists. The response to the second was "invalid option" There was more Like : " ln ( OPTION ) TARGET ... LINK_NAME \ DIRECTORY

Neil

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

I just copied and pasted those commands and they work.

run "rm /etc/rc2.d/S99metalayer-crawler0" and try the commands again.

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

I just entered /ect/rc2 into eterm. xterm says sh: /etc/rc2: not found

Apparently I lost a file?

Neil

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

rc2 exists but if you type a directory, it will try and execute it which it cannot

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

OK, I ran the commands again and Xterm says " Files exists" in both cases. The problem remains though. No music in the box unless I use the temporary fix.

N

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

try these commands in this order:
rm /etc/rc2.d/S99metalayer-crawler0
rm /etc/rc5.d/S99metalayer-crawler0
ln -s /etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0 /etc/rc2.d/S99metalayer-crawler0
ln -s /etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0 /etc/rc5.d/S99metalayer-crawler0

Re: Media Player won't find any files
 

Sorry for the confusion, I was apparently in the wrong mode that wasn't showing the tunes in media player. So after running your commands in xterm, I have now rebooted and Media Player shows and plays my tunes. Querty12, thanks again for your help. I really appreciate it.

Neil