Re: A couple of Mediabox questions
 

Hi All,

Assuming that this is the thread to post MediaBox questions...

(1) With the YouTube plugin, is there a way of downloading a video without starting to play it?

(2) Is there a way of adjusting the font size? When browsing, the song names look a bit small.

(3) When playing a song, as say started from the browser, is there a way of going immediately to the playlist? Or do I have to go through the bottom menu?

By the way, it was nice to hear that MediaBox will be developed for Mer. I had thought that Mer would automatically run Diablo applications, but perhaps Mer has extra stuff that MediaBox can take advantage of. I recently got a spare n800 to put Mer on. A while ago, I had another n800 to put Mer on, but when my daughter saw me using MediaBox on my primary n800, she wanted her own. So she got my first spare, and I had to go get another.

Jay

Re: A couple of Mediabox questions
 

No, at least not yet.

The font size is controlled by the theme. So, yes, it could be changed.
See here: http://pycage.blogspot.com/2009/01/m...-mediabox.html

Themes inherit from the default theme, so making a new theme with just the PREVIEW.png, mb.def and info files would be enough.

You have to go through the bottom menu.

Basically, Mer is more like Fremantle than Diablo.

This is great to hear. :D

Re: A couple of Mediabox questions
 

Thanks for the answers!

Oh, no; now I'll be playing with themes. I've been avoiding that, because I'm worried about what will happen once I get started. I've always felt that anything that can be tweaked must be tweaked.
So there goes my spare time... :)

Re: A couple of Mediabox questions
 

pycage,

Couple of more stupid questions/bug reports/feature requests.

1. Since I have started using mediabox as my sole mp3/ogg player, I've noticed a couple of things. First, is there a way to have it pick back up where it left off? I mean, I listen to podcasts when I am in the car on my commute. When I get to the train (more on that later), office or whatever, I close down MediaBox to free memory for other apps. When I open it again for the trip home, I would like it to autoresume. Is this possible at some point in the future?

2. I also noticed that if you arrange your playlist, moving items around, then close, then reopen, the play list reverts to the default order. An example: On Sunday night/Monday morning, I download my podcasts using gpodder on my desktop (gpodder is a little too heavy and locks up in my attempts to use it on the N810). I copy them to ~/MyDesktop/.sounds/Podcasts. When I open MediaBox, I import the contents of this directory into the playlist. Then, when time permits, I shuffle the order of play...But when I close MediaBox, the playlist reverts to its original order.

3. If I am playing sound files, and change over to video, then back to sound files, I get strange behavior. When I go back to playing sound files, more often than not, it starts playing the video again. Have you seen this?

Perhaps my usage is non-normal, but these are things I have seen with MediaBox.

Thanks,
--vr

Re: A couple of Mediabox questions
 

Yes, this will be possible at some point in the future. For the time being, you could set a bookmark in that file before you close MediaBox.

Not good. :(
This sounds like a bug. I'll check it. Apparently arranging alone does not trigger writing the playlist to file.

This bug will hopefully be gone with the next release. Yes, I've seen it occasionally.

Re: A couple of Mediabox questions
 

That is what I have been doing. But combined with the not changing the playlist bug, it makes it difficult when you are further down in the playlist. For the time being, I am using the "Last 50 played" list to supplement the playlist.

It also may be a result of having to fsck my SD card. Maybe something got munged in my ~/.mediabox directory. The playlist functions that I mentioned a month or so ago seem to have abated after deleting the two .idx files.

Excellent. Thanks PyCage!

Re: A couple of Mediabox questions
 

I'm having the same issue as VulcanRidr. I saw you solution for removing the idx files, but don't see these files on either the internal or external media card.

Re: A couple of Mediabox questions
 

The idx files are located in /home/user/.mediabox/

Re: A couple of Mediabox questions
 

Thanks, I reinstalled mediabox after not using for a bit. I like the improvements and am looking forward to the new release! Should I have been able to find the location of those in some other thread?

Re: A couple of Mediabox questions
 

stupid question - apologies in advance - Where do I say something like "this is my audio folder" ? I do not see that option anymore ..or is that option not applicable anymore ?