i just installed groove on my n900. Doesn't work!! it launches a GUI tells me to wait fr Initialization then says its online and i can now search for a song. but when i search any song tittle it gets stuck on searching.. (fetching Song list) in the main feild Can someone please help me out??? am i missing doing something?
i just installed groove on my n900. Doesn't work!! it launches a GUI tells me to wait fr Initialization then says its online and i can now search for a song. but when i search any song tittle it gets stuck on searching.. (fetching Song list) in the main feild Can someone please help me out??? am i missing doing something?
Yes.... go back to the previous page in this thread.
The issue has been fixed, just wait for the update to come through op your app manager
in case this helps anyone else work out how Groove handles playlists, I've done some testing with the new version upliaded by dodblank earlier today, and my empirical conclusions are as follows:
a. you can add as many items as you wish to the playlist and they will download sequentially, even if many are added quickly whils others are still downloading
b. once a track "x" has downloaded and while player is still playing earlier tracks in the playlist, you can skip forward instantly to track "x" via multiple ">" presses
c. to skip back to track "x" after you have moved past it to track"y" or beyond) requires track "x" to be re-downloaded, even if you have only played a small part of the track (by skipping forward past it). Playback will still commence during download in this scenario however, so the delay is minimal.
d. skipping back and forward quickly so that each track needs to be re-downloaded, and without giving time for re-d/l to complete, will eventually cause the player to become silent, while showing a download in progress, and to stay silent once the d/l completes. Audio can be restarted by pressing ">" or "<" thereafter, but I think this is a bug/limitation of the client at present.
e. once the last song in the playlist has played to conclusion, you can no longer skip back/forward at all - you have to add more songs before the player will restart audio. I don't know if that is intentional or not (I'd have assumed that having got to the end of my playlist, I could still skip back into it if desired?)
This is (I suspect) identical to how the previous version - i.e. the one currently in the repos, which doesn't work with grooveshark any more - used to work, but it was quite hard to "see" it without the download progress bar to make sense of things.
There may have been a couple of bug fixes too in the new version which are making it more stable, but I am certainly finding it way more reliable now I know how I'm *supposed* to use it, and how the api forces the client to work in terms of downloading/skipping.
HTH
This a very detailed report of your experiences and it will help me solve some bugs. The version in the repos had a nasty bug with a segfault in the playlist but I think I fixed all of those. Point E is very peculiar to me as that is not expected behavior, Also there does seem to be conditions in which the player will freeze.
I think I could solve the re-download issue but at the same time it opens up potential for abuse if I decided to cache the downloads to flash
I am actually working on implementing libao with mpg123 and that should solve most of the back-end issues with phonon, I will still keep phonon in use for the n900 release because it seems to work well and I did not see a considerable performance gain in using my custom audio back-end.
hey, I just got an update to 0.4-12 & installed via FappMan.
The progress bar was showing white progress on a dark background in the executable you posted the other day. On 0.4-12 it is now showing all black all the time (for me anyway) - that's how it starts on program load and it doesn't change during download or playback. May just be a theme issue - I'm running the carbon theme - but I haven't changed my theme since long before these two recent groove installs?
Having just got the very useful progress bar, I'm loath to give it up again so I'm thinking of reverting to the previous executable that you posted here recently for now. Before I do so, is there any added functionality (or bugfixes) in 0.4-12 over and above the temp executable which I'd lose if I did revert?
hey, I just got an update to 0.4-12 & installed via FappMan.
The progress bar was showing white progress on a dark background in the executable you posted the other day. On 0.4-12 it is now showing all black all the time (for me anyway) - that's how it starts on program load and it doesn't change during download or playback. May just be a theme issue - I'm running the carbon theme - but I haven't changed my theme since long before these two recent groove installs?
Having just got the very useful progress bar, I'm loath to give it up again so I'm thinking of reverting to the previous executable that you posted here recently for now. Before I do so, is there any added functionality (or bugfixes) in 0.4-12 over and above the temp executable which I'd lose if I did revert?
The only thing I really added was a fix to the search bar, it allows you to press enter. The disappearing progress bar is a mystery, the source is nearly identical yet the auto-builder has issues with it. This hasn't been with just this release either. It turns out my scratch-box sdk compiles the right output and the auto-builder doesn't. I have no idea why this is.
thanks for the reply. Lets wait & whether it's just me or if others also have a black on black status with new version ... Meanwhile' I'll persevere with 0.4-12 as adding enter key to search is actually a major improvement to my experience! Keep up the good work
I may have figured out a way to fix it, the progress bar was also bugged on desktop builds, So I'm going to upload a new version and hopefully it fixes it.
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