Hi, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > as I only found one mailing list about elisa, I expect it to be > for developers and users alike. If this is the wrong place to > ask or this questions are already answered elsewhere, please > point me to the appropriate location.
This is the correct place for end-user and developers related questions indeed. You can also get some live answers on IRC ([EMAIL PROTECTED], we are mostly active there during daytime UTC+1). Sorry for the very late reply, seems that your mail got forgotten somehow... > > I'm trying elisa 0.3.5 on Debian lenny (testing). I wonder: The current release series is 0.5 (latest version released is 0.5.12, 0.5.13 to be released today) and is a huge rework of the core architecture. It brings a lot of new functionalities and improvements over 0.3.5, hence I recommend you to try it out. We have some Ubuntu Hardy packages in our PPA (https://launchpad.net/~elisa-developers/+archive), I don't know how well they will run on debian lenny, your feedback would be welcome. > > 1. Howto select audio files outside of the home directory? (E.g. > /usr/local/mymusic/?) That was not possible in 0.3.x, it has been made possible in 0.5.x. > > 2. How can I turn off the confusing graphics when playing music? > I just want to see the information in the Ogg tags (artist, > title, date, genre, performer, composer, ...) If you mean the visualization it is currently not possible to turn it off. In 0.5.x the audio player has an OSD that partially displays the information you are interested in (artist & title). > > 3. (How) can I select music by tags (genre, artist, ...)? In 0.5.x this can be accessed through the music library (Music/Music Library/[Artists/Albums/Tracks/Genres]). > > 4. What is the purpose of the gearwheel in the main menu? (It > seems to be without any function.) It currently does not do anything (both in 0.3.x and 0.5.x), it is a kind of reserved placeholder. > > 5. In the tools menu, there is only the configuration of > "Themes". Am I missing something? (I expected configuration > of my music library location etc.) That has changed a lot in 0.5.x, check it out! > > Thanks in advance! Cheers, Olivier
