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Just to let everybody know that I uploaded v 0.4.1 to devel, it has an on/off switch and reset button for the equalizer.

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A new version (0.4.2) has been uploaded to extras-devel.

It has experimental .cue file support. Please try it out and let me know how it works.

Thanks

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big thanks for adding .cue support :)
opens cue file ok and list songs within it, skips through the listed songs fine no problems for me but it would be nice to seek through the item(as if it was a single mp3) curently playing if possible rather than just skip to the track time starting point.

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TomAmp is a great app that fits the high-quality audio player gap nicel. If I may make two simple suggestions that will dramatically improve usability:

Cache playlist metadata

I tend to try to use TomAmp the same way I use foobar2000. Lacking a media library (which in and of itself is not a big deal, as most "libraries" amount to a folder playlist), I keep all of my music in a single playlist with 2300 entries. An unfortunate consequence is that TomAmp takes approximately a minute and a half to open while it reads metadata for all 2300 songs.

Instead why not normalize metadata to your own set of fields (so you can treat Vorbis/ID3 uniformly) and cache it somewhere like ~/.tomamp-cache? You would then update metadata for individual songs when they are played.

As an aside, please don't forget to accomodate disc number metadata. I have at least eight multi-disc albums whose track numbers should correctly display in the form 2.03.

Search functionality

I know that currently there is at least some search functionality, but I suspect that it is built into QT as its behavior is bizarre to say the least.

I would suggest having any typing initiate a search, continuing to collect keywords until you exit search mode. Make enter play the top match, make shift-enter enqueue the top match, and make shift-backspace exit search mode.

Thanks for all your hard work!

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Thank you both for the great suggestions! I already thought about some of them, I'll try to explore the possibilities and if all goes well these features will make it into an upcoming version.

Thanks agan!

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Hi,

I've uploaded v0.4.3 to extras-devel, I implemented a very simple (but efficient) metadata caching.

Let me know what you think.

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bug: when i turn on EQ, and try to seek trough a track... it pauses sound, so i must hit a play botton again... :P

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hi
any news on the diablo side of things-anything at all

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The caching is a drastic improvement. Thanks!

If you are interested, the cache for my 2300 songs results in a cache file around 550Kb.

If you want to take it one step further, I am guessing that the remaining startup slowness is caused by enumerating folder contents to generate the playlist. Consider caching the current playlist as well.

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This looks pretty promising.Is it somehow possible to lock list scrolling so that it doesnt jump horizontally when scrolling.

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As a heads up, after further testing today (beyond opening and closing the app) it looks as though 0.4.3 has introduced an issue where you cannot skip forwards/backwards or play a specific song by double-tapping. Attempting to do so starts playing track 1.

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Confirmed. When playing on Shuffle it will work for a few songs, but then will just stop and clicking Forward or on another song has the same issue as above.

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Confirmed, I wasn't really using the player since the last release, so thanks for pointing this out. Expect an update soon.

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When I'm holding my finger over a song, to get the menu to delete it, the menu appears but it contains only a "dot". Like it's an empty button. :confused:

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Dear users,

version 0.4.4 has been imported to extras-devel, which fixes the non-working buttons and the missing pop-up menus, and should also display a dialog in case the equalizer is not supported on your system (might help in debugging why it's not working for some people).

Looking forward to your comments.

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Sadly no, tried to build the new version, but ran into problems :(

Not really, only if you resize the columns to fit the horizontal width.

The current playlist has already been cached, no directory scanning occurs at startup. The delay is caused mostly by populating the internal and GUI playlist, and retrieving the data from the cache. I don't think I can make significant improvements without a major effort.
But thanks for the suggestions anyway! :)

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Hi TMarki

I just tried to update but it says that the updated file is corrupt.

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I uploaded a different package and tested it, should work. Let me know if not.

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Working good again, thanks for the quick fix!

Small bug: enqueue doesn't work in shuffle mode. when I try, the next song will get stuck.

Insignificant bugs:

-The name of the currently playing song is italic/bold, but so is the Artist of the next song.
-when you grab the slider on the seek bar, and hit the end (top) of the bar, the playback stops, even if you immediately move the slider back to the middle.

Feature requests :)

-Add "Delete File" option to the tap-and-hold menu for tracks...sometimes I stumble on a song I don't like.

-Add total track length beside the position counter

-Add a "filename" selectable column heading

Thanks again for the app!

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heres a noob question, why i get "The required equalizer component was not found on your system, sorry!" when choosing eq? do i need to install something? im using 0.4.4 version and N900

edit: ok problem solved, installed gstreamer... and now eq works. thanks to TMarki for this app

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I'm afraid the app crashes for me when I try to change the order of the Title/Album/Artist fields. Otherwise though, it works perfectly.

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@TMarki

would you consider implementing a slightly different UI, if i provide you with it?
i am a designer, so i can provide you with nice (subjective) interface, but, only in layered photoshop format (even individual png-s, but with positions stacked in photoshop psd file...)
cheers! ;)

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Hello and THANK YOU for a great app!
I have two questions:
1. will there be support for the FM transsmitor?
2. A lot of my files are in Hebrew. in the browsing window the font is great, but on the playlist it changes and all I see is gibberish.... what can i do to see Hebrew in the playlist too?

thanks again!

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Cool app! Is there any chance it will play mms streams? Native does, but there no "repeat" functionality. So if connection is lost one must manually start stream again. It's annoying.

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I'm sorry, I don't plan on new versions at the moment, as I have better things to do, and I'm not really using the n900 as a music player.

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IT works fine for me, but
I enable the EQ but it doesnt make any difference to the sound, like not working

what should i do ?

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An option to "keep display light ON" would be fine ...

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Try the Simple Brightness Applet.

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Just wanted to say thanks for a great app
finally a music player that has i big file list an not just 4-6 files visible.

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what does the new version have ? 0.4.4.1