Re: ukmp 1.5 out
 

If you can conjure an gst call that works on 770, I will be more than glad to replace the existing call with that one. Do you think you could do that? Just a command line gst call will be enough for me.

Re: ukmp 1.5 out
 

OKay, thanks for your response. Ah, I thought it might be something like that. I'll try to work around it for now then. Is there a way I could disable the album sorting for MP3s so that they all just show up in the same list as the oggs?

Re: ukmp 1.5 out
 

I think I know why ukmp keeps crashing on some videos. Its the ones that if you were on youtube in a traditional browser would require you to log in to verify you age. Is this ever going to be fixable? Don't no why but most ones I look at require the age verification thing.:o

Re: ukmp 1.5 out
 

I noticed that there was an alternative call using tremor commented out in /usr/bin/MediaCenter, line 281. I enabled this line and disabled the next one (with oggdemux). Now the oggs are playing, although playing them uses all the CPU resources. But I find a bit choppy playback more tolerable than the player crashing whenever the random play chooses an ogg file :)

EDIT: I noticed this morning that when using tremor to play oggs, the player doesn't recognise when the song ends. This means that it doesn't automatically change to next song and the Play/Pause icon shows as pause. As this happens only with oggs, I can live with this. Maybe I should start learning python and how gst works, in order to find a better solution for 770.

Re: ukmp 1.5 out
 

konttori , any ideas why when i install ukmp and click on it to open it , nothing happens? uk tube seems to work fine but nothing out of ukmp?

Re: ukmp 1.5 out
 

Please add in the next version a loop option on the shuffle button.

EDIT: actually not needed. The queue function does the same. ;)

Re: ukmp 1.5 out
 

I would guess that you are missing pygame. Anyway, the best way to be sure is to open xterm and open command MediaCenter.
(Notice capitals)
You should be able to see then what is crashing ukmp.

Re: ukmp 1.5 out
 

OUCH! Same happens to me but I couldn't figure out why I couldn't run anything starting with "media"... :D and I'm not a Linux newbie, or, at least, I know very well how it manages capitals and not...

Re: ukmp 1.5 out
 

Mine stops when saying RuntimeWarning: import joystick: No module named joystick

Then it never returns to prompt, even tough the CPU occupation returns to mostly zero level.

Re: ukmp 1.5 out
 

These two things are currently in my wishlist for UKMP future releases:

1. External config file
   
   There could be a config file, in which the settings are stored. Preferably the default file would be stored in /etc. If the user would like to change some settings, this file could be copied in /home/user and edited according the user's preferences. At startup UKMP would check if there is a config file in user's home directory and if not, use the default file in /etc instead.
   
   Configurable settings could be: disabling some audio format from search or output (referring to the problem with oggs in 770), changing settings for gst calls, disabling kinetic scrolling (as zerojay wished), setting default volume at startup, changing UI colors, defining directories for music searching and saving album covers, etc.
   
   
2. Support for sending information of played songs to last.fm (Audioscrobbler)
   
   I believe the easiest solution for this is to use a program called Maemoscrobbler, which takes care of storing user credentials as well as caching and sending song names to last.fm service.
   
   To make a music player work with Maemoscrobbler there should be two dbus calls sent. First one with song details (name, artist, album, length, position in track) when a song has been playing for a few seconds. The second one is sent if the player is stopped, the user seeks within the track or the track is changed. The functionality is better described in Maemoscrobbler's API page.
   
   As last.fm is used only by some UKMP users, this should be disabled by default and Maemoscrobbler package shouldn't be a dependency for UKMP. There could be some kind of a check at startup to see if Maemoscrobbler is installed or a setting which turns on this support (for example a variable in the config file, see #1).