The long wait is over and MediaBox 0.96 is available in the maemo-extras
repository for Chinook and Diablo.

UPnP Streaming



UPnP/DLNA is a great technology for streaming music, videos, and photos to your
tablet. Simply put an UPnP media server in your home network and MediaBox
will discover it automatically for browsing and streaming its contents.

Playlists and media bookmarks

Playlists can be created and edited and are saved automatically. You can reorder
the items at any time, and you can mix audio, videos, and images in a playlist.

You can now also set media bookmarks in any (seekable) file to mark the best
spots and to find the place where you stopped listening to your audio book or
podcast the last time. Simply click on the star-button to set a media bookmark
for the current position.

Shuffle and Repeat

I don't think I need to say much about these features anymore, except that MediaBox
can do it now, too.

Car-Mode



Car-mode is what I call the fullscreen mode of the music player because it's
very handy to use while driving a car. Big buttons for previous, next, and play/pause,
along with big cover-art and a big title label make MediaBox perfect for this
situation. I use this mode frequently with a shuffled playlist when driving.

Themes



It seems like every media center these days needs to be themable. MediaBox
follows this fad so you can give it a new skin by downloading themes from the
maemo-extras repository.

Plugins



MediaBox can be extended with plugins, and I'm going to cover plugin development
later. Some plugins are already available for download:
- a FM radio (for the N800),
- a YouTube browser
- and internet radio with SHOUTcast directory.