ukmp 1.5 out
 

UKMP 1.5 is out now with kinetic scrolling, WMA support, bug fixes and thumb navigation for song list.

More info, installation links, screenshots and short video on it in here:
http://konttoristhoughts.blogspot.co...ing-sweet.html

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Cool one kontorrri. Its good news that nokia is directly working with you. If only they did that and supported more third party appliction compilers..... we would have more stable and useful applications.

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Ahh.. Thanks! I also hope that Nokia could participate a bit more in sending tips to developers when they see that something could be improved. For example I would love the get tips on how to improve the power management part of ukmp.

I also think that Nokia UI department might also be able to give a few nice tips to developers when they have the time. Roope's suggestion for example was brilliant.

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Wow, this looks ace, cant wait to use the new scrolling method

'dude is that an iPhone with the cool scrolling?', 'No its just my ultra cool 770 with ukmp'

Just installed and instantly tried the interface, it is looking good, I am not kidding, I bow down to you,

I'm now going to be cheaky and suggest the feature of playing music from other network devices like the media streamer :p

Well done

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from the video, there seems to be some screen tear with the kinetic scroll.

is it just because of the video? or is it like that?

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The actual app is much smoother than the video and there is really not much noticeable tearing. Kinetic scroll is just as smooth as finger scrolling is in 1.4.

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Can you make the kinetic scrolling optional?

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zerojay:
Of course I can, but why would I do that?

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Would it be tough to add support for foreign fonts??

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Seconded. Both the "well done" and the request for the media streaming. I would *love* it if UKMP supported playing from uPNP. If it did that, it would be giving Canola a run for its money, as that's what I use that app primarily for.

Is that on the roadmap?

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Crashes for me on an empty MP3 file. Message is below:

Invalid ID3 tag: Can't open /media/mmc1/mp3/xyz.mp3: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
Removing /media/mmc1/mp3/xyz.mp3 since we could not identify it sufficiently
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/MediaCenter", line 2750, in <module>
if __name__ == '__main__': main()
File "/usr/bin/MediaCenter", line 2246, in main
songprocessor.getIDTags()
File "/usr/bin/MediaCenter", line 1848, in getIDTags
self.saveTagList()
File "/usr/bin/MediaCenter", line 1645, in saveTagList
saveString=fileName+"##==##"+songlist[i]
IndexError: list index out of range

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Sounds like an error trapping oversight.

Then again, why would you try to open an empty MP3? :confused:

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It's your program and you can do what you want with it, but I find the kinetic scrolling (as well as the whole "let's make every app look like it's made by Apple" fad currently taking over UI designers everywhere) really annoying. Of course, I'm in the minority on that, I'm sure. I just thought the option would be nice.

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Hi Konttori,

Thank you for a great application!!! I appreciate the time and effort that you put into this program!

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updated last night, still having the same problem. I can open the app, but as soon as I click on the download button or stream or whatever, it closes. boom.

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I can't scroll... never could actually even on 1.4
What's wrong with me? I watched the video, tried scrolling with the thumb, the stylus... nothing works. :(
I really want to use this player.

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Don't have much to contribute... but I just wanted to express my appreciation for konttori's hard work.

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Hi, konttori. Thanks for all of your work on ukmp (& uktube). It looks great. I just haven't been able to use it fully yet. Here's my situation. On one of my cards I have the directory structure [card]/Audio/oggs/ which is where I have my music files. In it are lots of ogg files and five mp3s. In album view, I have six albums listed: the five mp3s and "Nanny Oggs." The "Nanny Oggs album" contains all of my ogg files. Obviously, since I've never heard of Nanny Oggs, and my ogg music files are quite varied, this is not right. I tried changing the /Audio/oggs/ directory to /Audio/music/, but now the album cover is for the Fratellis. Is there something I can do or need to do to correct this problem so that I can see all of my music files as ukmp is intended? I would love to use ukmp :)

EDIT: I ran it from xterm just now to see if there were any options or if I could see any errors. After it processes my music files, it repeats:
File does not exist:/media/mmc1/covers/UNKNOWN_UNKNOWN.jpg
images disabled for maemo
It repeats this many times (presumably as many times as I have ogg files). Nevermind, there aren't enough of these messages. It must be related to some other files (it's on the card w/out the audio files :o ).

Also, just FYI, I noticed it tries to load modules for a cdrom and joystick.

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I can't scroll either :(

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Hi Urho,

Kinetic scrolling indeed looks nice! One question though. When I come back to Albums list from a certain album by touching Albums button quickly, the list will appear on the screen scrolling. If i press the button more longer and release, the list will appear not scrolling. I guess this is intended behaviour?

I usually listen a lot of mix albums, like livesets which tend to be quite long tracks...like 60mins or more. Is fast forward and rewind planned for future releases? Also some sort of an easy and quick screen lock might be nice.

Anyways, thanks for the great application. Here everything seems to work smoothly!

EDIT: Switching between audio/video modes seems to be quite hard with a finger. It almost always starts scrolling the list :) Maybe a bit bigger buttons for them?

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Agreed.

It crashed when scanning the mmc that happened to have a broken
(empty) file with the extension .mp3 for some reason.

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I checked updates, and needed to update Python. Did that, pulled up youtube, copied the link, pasted fine in UKTUBE but as soon as I click that button, the app shuts down. just like that.

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Do you have over 20 albums? To need scrolling, you need to have quite a few albums. It doesn't use scroll until you do.

Also, try pressing the dpad up and down.

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No, it's not intended behaviour. I'll try to fix it soon.
You can press and keep pressed the dpad right to fast forward and left for fast rewind. I'm considering of adding a new screen for the currently playing song view.

You can press the back button to switch between video/audio modes.

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I have latest python. Seems to work just fine. Do you have python 2.5?

I tested this random link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8A0uoNQCOc

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Thx didn't notice that you can already fast forward :) Also 1 comment about Album list. It appears that the name of the album is displayed under the album cover but the name of previous album on top of this cover is much closer than the correct name. I tend to press always the cover art under the album name :)
Hopefully you know what i mean.

Anyways nice work!

EDIT: I thought I had a dead pixel when looking at the upper right corner of ALBUMS button but it appears to be in the image itself. Just a minor thing :)

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Python 2.5, mplayer 1.0rc1, mediacenter 1.4b.

UKTube doesn't show as a separate entry in my apps list. That link crashed, as well.

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Kontorri-

Great application that is getting better.

Thanks,
Fred

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rcadden: sounds like your install is messed. Maybe you should uninstall and try re-installing. Also, try the latest ukmp install (it has uktube as well).

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I'll try that and report back.

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The scrolling is great, but the thumb navigation is an even better improvement. Now UKMP can handle "albums" with a large number of tracks. This effects some of the audio courses that I have on my N800.

Howard

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I have the same issue though some will play, most of the time after i hit the show button it just crashes.

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This really exciting - I love the work you do on this. But this is a really silly newbie question, do I just download this new version and it updates the current version. Or do I have to un-install the current version, or delete it & then download the new version?

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The program looks and works great. The only thing that would make it better in my opinion is some type of 'now playing' screen with an audio scrubber bar so that I could skip around in my podcasts.
Other than that, great job!

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You can just install and it will update the previous version.

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Oh, thanks!

I am thinking about making a nice play screen, I just haven't figured out how it will be accessible. Anyway, it will come relatively soon (and with it, will come bookmarking).

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Me neither! :confused:

I have more than 12 mp3's inside a folder... have more than 12 videos... and i still can't scroll... using the cursor and using the stylus :(
Didn't work with 1.4 either.

This the greatest app i have ever seen, but i would really like to see the scrolling and the kinetic movement :cool:

Using last version of ukmp and python.
N770 OS 2006 V.3.2006.49-2.

Anyone can help? Thanks

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I could never scroll beyond the screen to my other song files even on the older version. I found that really wierd....



Luke

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You need to have more than 12 albums (and thus probably quite a bit more mp3s) to have the scrolling enabled.

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I have 7 albums, and of course I don't expect to scroll there, but on one of the albums I have more than 20 mp3s. So I should be able to scroll there. :roll:
I've n800 with latest python and firmware. On UKMP 1.4 I couldn't scroll either and I deleted the program, because I thought that it wasn't possible.
How do you determine when to enable scrolling? Maybe there's a bug when one has not many mp3s.