On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Xavier Cremaschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > yesterday I tried to use qtopia-phone-x11-mediaplayer and some ogg/mp3 > files to transform the FR into a digital audio player. > > I have encountered 3 software problems : > <snip, cannot comment on the two first> > 3. software relies upon tags, which I do not use at all. I have a > precise filesystem scheme and no need of tag-based players trying to > sort my music. Is there a way of telling the thing to stop trying to be > smart ? I need a dumb soft here ;)
Surely a program which grabs the information from your well-designed file system schema would work for you here? The trick is, doing it in this manner (that is, with tags) makes sure you have processing power left over when browsing the music, as all the tags are cached in a high-performance database. It also gives you the advantage of being able to find tracks directly by artist or by album or by... you get the idea, i'm sure :) While your filesystem is optimal for a single path through the music, the method used in the qt mediaplayer makes sure that the information is accessible through a number of different paths. So... give tags a shot before you discard their usefulness ;) > qtopia-phone-x11-mediaplayer seems totally usable with fingers, and > that's the big motivation for me to use it. On a related topic, the media player designed by the Qt people is rather simplistic, and while it works quite well, the Amarok team is working on a new player based on the technologies in Amarok 2 - what that means is that you'll be able to do all sorts of interesting things... This is again all tags based stuff, so may well not be what you want, but as general information for other people ;) ..leinir _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community