Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

trevarthan,
my problem with KAGU 1.0.5 got lost in the string of threads, but unfortunately it is still present: scrolling thru the albums is not possible any more once I selected an album and then go back to the album list. Am I the only one with this problem? as it is soooo persistent and reproducable, I would think this is a real bug and not just a singular problem?
thanks for an answer,
karl.

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

Let me get this straight:

1.) Start Kagu
2.) Select Album (brings up SongView with album art in upper left and songs in list)
3.) Press back button
4.) Try to scroll? Nothing happens?

I've never seen anything like that. Do any of the buttons work? Or is the whole UI locked up?

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

trevarthan,
as a way to resolve the problem, I uploaded more albums and now the scrolling works even if come BACK from a selected album. maybe the bug only shows itsels if exactely FIVE albums are present...
still, the touch interface to have scrolling AND selection in the same area is sub-optimal for me. quite often when I just want to scroll I find myself actually SELECTING an album or track... as the album/song touch area is quite wide, would it eventually be possible to make the area for scrolling restricted to the RIGHT half of the area, and the LEFT for selection only? does this make sense to other KAGU users?
greetings, karl.

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

That's interesting. I'll check it out. I usually test with 10-12 albums, so it's quite possible that it doesn't work well with less than that.


Maybe you're not pressing the screen hard enough? It won't break. And if you do it too lightly then it registers multiple mouse Up/Down events. In order for a drag to work, firmly press your finger against the screen, then (making sure to apply the same pressure) drag your finger. It's very sane, but most of the time I find that first time users don't push hard enough to drag.

The only times I find this sub-optimal is when some sort of background activity is going on and the list doesn't scroll immediately.

Anyway, I can tune this as time goes on. It will only get better.

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

I've opened a ticket for this bug: https://www.guardiani.us/projects/ka...ket/72#preview

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

Wow, this does in fact work beautifully! Neat trick, although I guess mplayer has always worked with Shoutcast streams, I just never tried it. It even shows the current artist and track in Terminal while it is streaming. I had no idea...

I just tried this via A2DP, and the trick it to turn on Bluetooth in the Control Panel, and the BT feature in Kagu and leave Kagu running in the background, without playing any songs. Then insert the command line for mplayer (like listed above, or edited for whichever stream or channel), and it starts streaming thru the Bluetooth headphones or speakers. I was using both WiFi and BT, and there was *no* skipping...maybe just once or twice every minute. Sound quality was just like Kagu.

@ trevarthan - I bet this functionality can be worked into Kagu eventually...easy for me to say, right? ;)

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Well that settles the deal for me!!! I wanted to use ad2p to stream internet radio very badly. Now that you confirmed it there is nothing to stop me from buying the nokia bh 601headset.
Just a quick question ... What headset are you using?
How is the battery life with both wifi and ad2p streaming.?
Can we use a playlist of shoutcast streams and shift among the different syream using avcrp?
Thank you for letting us kniw that this works
rks
rks

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

Working it into the backend (i.e. mplayer.py) would be quite easy. In fact, I doubt any changes would be necessary at all. The playlist (i.e. playlist.py) would be equally straightforward.

The frontend might be a different matter. For example, I'm not sure how copy and paste would work using pygame. And Kagu currently has no virtual keyboard. (the maemo virtual keyboard works with GTK, not pygame)

Doing a quick google search, there's pygame.scrap for clipboard integration, but that's only in pygame >=1.8, and I think maemo uses 1.6 or 1.7 currently.

Anyway, I'm sure it could be done. It's just a matter of finding a good way to paste text into Kagu's UI. Possibly a GTK popup window? Dunno...

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

trevarthan,
thank you for opening the bug, yes, I did test it now and it is reproducable:
if you have FIVE or LESS than 5 Albums, scrolling does not work any more if you come BACK from a track list. As soon as you have SIX Albums--> no problem.
Secondly, you were absolutely right that I did press TOO LIGHTLY for scrolling, I tried a smooth, swooshing moevement, this resulted in unpredictable behaviour as you mentioned. Now I press firmer and this works much better. Thank you for your support,
karl.

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

I hope we could convince nokia to include pygame 1.8 for the next python update.

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

I see what you mean about the keyboard...for now, I just created a Notes document with my Shoutcast URL's and I'm using cut and paste into the Terminal. Maybe someone will come along and suggest a different way to do this.

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

FYI to all: Apparently OGG support works in Kagu too. The only change needed is a one line change in /usr/lib/kagu/kagu-scanner.py (probably need to be root to edit it): https://www.guardiani.us/projects/kagu/changeset/412

We'll be including this in the next release. Track numbers may not work. I'm not sure if that's an OGG comment issue, or we're just not using them correctly. Patches welcome.

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Python has gtk.Clipboard support. I'll do some tests when I get time and see if it's possible to paste clipboard items into Kagu's playlist this way.

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

FYI: I've opened a ticket for Internet Radio support: https://www.guardiani.us/projects/kagu/ticket/73

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

How do you sign up for an account in that site????

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

Only developers can open tickets. If you want to be a developer, you should write a patch and email it to us. If we like it, we'll give you an account.

User requests and bug reports are handled on IRC and here, in these threads.

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

I'm having some issues with Kagu: I have Canola installed. Downloaded python then kagu. Kagu scanner seems to get hung (I only have a few songs, maybe 50 at this point) while hitting into the id3 tags. Most of the time it will hang and crash if touched even to wake the screen. Today while I was at work it must have been chugging away in my bag. When I was walking out to the parking lot I went to fire up Canola for the ride home, and there it was, the scanner had completed! I flipped, quite literally through the albums, which performs superbly, by the way, only to find all of the album covers the same. Hmm, OK. Played a song, sounded good, but then it stopped. My music taste varies quit a bit so I dont usually listen to a whole album, and don't have a single full album on my nokia. Back to Canola I went. When I got home I tried playing around a bit to find shuffle through a single album, but no global random (if someone would point me to it I would appreciate it)I then tried rescanning to see if maybe it would correct the artwork issue, but now it is hanging again and taking a while. I can't stay away from my nokia for 8 hours agin until tomorrow at work. I'd really like to get this thing configured properly to see what it can do as it has a gorgeous, intuitive interface.

Is there a conflict with Canola or any other known apps, or could it be an install sequence issue?

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

Got a backtrace? (log in via SSH, run `kagu-scanner`, and copy/paste the exception here)

:) We don't expect you to. You *must* be running into a bug. Get us that backtrace/exception and we'll see what we can do.

Not that I'm aware of.

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

Got a backtrace? (log in via SSH, run `kagu-scanner`, and copy/paste the exception here)

I am just running from xterm, not through SSH. Is that neccesary?

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

No, it just makes copy/paste'ing the backtrace easier.

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

Finally i got it working..... But to tell the truth i was rather disappointed!!!. It is still not ready for regular use..... i mean it pauses once atleast every 3 seconds. Definitely not usable. Is there any development going into streaming internet radio using ad2p. Can it be done??

Anyway thank you trevarthan and your group for giving us this wonderful application called kagu. I got my new nokia bh 601 headset and configured it. I am enjoying it. Now i will be waiting for streaming radio and skype integration with ad2p. I hope it comes soon. I cant wait.

But one small problem .... the scanner crashes when i try to download art. I ran it in xterm and saw the file causing the problem. But did not know what to do. So what am i supposed to do with the result from xterm??

Thanks for everything;

Re: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.4
 

I would *really* like to see the backtrace please. Copy and paste it here. We want to do what we can to fix the scanner album art crashes, but so far nobody has sent us traces.