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Please allow for simple 90 degrees rotation when viewing pictures!! The new Canola does have a picture viewer, doesn't it? Can't wait for the new release ...

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Gammer,

We actually placed that in the old canola (click on the corner) was ahidden feature because we didn't have plans to add it. But now you will have rotation buttons available in the picture view. It's coming quite nicely. The only drawback as always is that in the thumbnail view you will face a lot of tearing.

keep suggestion coming =) of course now we are almost on freezing phase to focus on finishing it as fast as possible, so some small cool things can be out of the first release, but we will work hard to enable a lot of things promised =)

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Hi Handful. Will the new Canola be compatible with 2006OS? Thanks.

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Marcelo, Thanks for the updates this is easily my most anticipated application for my N800.
I currently use Canola, UKMP, gPodder, Video Center, Rhapsody and the Internet radio applet virtually every day for my media and it sounds like the new version Canola will be able to replace all but Rhapsody. I love the utility of the N800 but after using an iPhone all weekend (borrowed one of my friends 2 unlocked ones) the best feature of the iphone is how easy it is to switch between applications. The n800 is capable of much, much more but I am hoping that the new Canola really seamlessly ties the multimedia capabilities of the N800 together.
I am actually setting up a MythTV box in the next few weeks specifically for use with the Canola :D
Cheers and if you need any testers you know where to look.

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Thanks for the kind words! and we are not only work to make it really worth it but also I have a confident thinking that you guys are going to really like canola. Of course a lot of things will need some improvements after the first round of real feedback, but we tried to fix so much mistakes from the 1.0 and make easy to expand the new version that we now that is not going to be great , but will allow not only us but the other developers to make it fetch your needs.

Well, actually even with small "management" things (like being able to delete videos for example, I think we will be able to really look after the features you said apart from the raphsody. For music we have 2 great album art based views, and one is really going to be canola exclusive, not copied from anywhere else.

I really understand you, and totally agree. Along with other small hidden things this is also one of the real great things about the iphone. Multitasking is "simple" and you don't need to learn. the applications record the state and you are presented with what you left when you come back. We didn't needed that in canola 1.0 but for the new one that was a real requirement, so not only we will try to implement this right, but also give the user a dedicated task switch button.

because like you we also believe that: " The n800 is capable of much, much more but I am hoping that the new Canola really seamlessly ties the multimedia capabilities of the N800 together."

So let's see if we can get it right.
I am actually setting up a MythTV box in the next few weeks specifically for use with the Canola
Cheers and if you need any testers you know where to look.[/QUOTE]


"Hi Handful. Will the new Canola be compatible with 2006OS? Thanks."

Well, actually the new canola is quite a lot of python, and we have the releases for all platforms versions. I cannot assure that, because if things gets really delayed for some reasons the 770 version is the first to drop, but we have a kind of a "personal" (team) goal to make canola 2.0 run fast and beautiful on the 770 just to show some Evas speed off =) (kidding) So, I will not promised anything in behalf of the team, but I can at least say that we are in a good position to at least make it available for it, and maybe its a little bit slower, but it would be a real killer if it was quite fast on that device running 2006 software also.

Cheers from Brazil!

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I've been meaning to add this to the Canola garage tracker. I still can do, but I thought I'd mention it here.

It's a boring tagging enhancement request. The problem I have with the current version is to do with multi-disc albums (i.e. albums with more than one disc). They are treated as a single album, but the ordering of the tracks is wrong. I guessing that's because Canola doesn't support the disc number/part of set (TPOS) ID3 tag.

For example, I have the MP3s for both discs in a single folder, tagged with the same album name (TALB) and artist (TPE1). The track numbers (TRCK) go from "1" - "10" (for example) on the first disc, "1" - "9" on the second. The filenames for these are "1.1.mp3" - "1.10.mp3" and "1.1.mp3" - "1.9.mp3", respectivly. The first disc is tagged with disc number (TPOS) "1" and the second disk number "2". The order, when played, of tracks in the album is all track "1"s, followed by all track "2"s, and so on.

The desired behaviour is to have "disc 1, track 1", followed by "disc 1, track 2" all the way through to the end of disc 1, followed by disc 2 in the same way. That is, like it is on the original CD.

If it’s best to add a feature request on the tracker, then please let me know.

Thanks,
Nigel.

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request: Direct play of Flash .FLV files.

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Hei guys, I tried posting about the last 2 suggestions and here it goes again:

I think we will be able to direct play flash .flv files through rss feeds. (Maybe a youtube dedicated thing, but this is not sure.. BUT it will be easier for someone to code it on python)

Nigel: I communicated this personally today, one of the guys said that will make sure this is implemmented =)

Thanks for the suggestion /

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I hope you can provide the option to connect to Apple's Quicktime movie list to access the movie trailers - ala FrontRow. It should be able to play them since the 2008 OS support h.264 natively right?

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But what about FLV files saved to the device? That's where my problem exists.