Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-18 Thread David Garabana Barro
O Venres, 6 de Marzo de 2009, Dylan Reilly escribiu: correctly? If not then the package is corrupt. The package I uploaded to opgk.org is fine. If it got corrupted somewhere in the stream I Is there any other place where to download latest pythm opk? opk.org's package is still corrupted, and

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-09 Thread Helge Hafting
Cameron Frazier wrote: On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 22:00 -0500, Dylan Reilly wrote: FYI, version 0.5.7. is now available on opkg.org. * Seeking works again (gstreamer). * Random play implemented (gstreamer). * Pulled in misc., minor GUI enhancements from Paul TT (developer from whom the this

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-09 Thread Helge Hafting
Dylan Reilly wrote: FYI, version 0.5.7. is now available on opkg.org. Thanks, nice improvements! Is it possible to make the tabs on top as tall as the buttons at the bottom? They will be easier to press that way. I have the same wish for the nearly flat volume control - it is hard to grab

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-08 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:32 AM, The Digital Pioneer digitalpion...@gmail.com wrote: Of course, opkg gives the obligatory segfault. Had to download package manually. :( I'm sure we're all experienced the opkg.org problems.. Please have a look at this here: http://www.opkg.org/repo.html It tells

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-07 Thread Dylan Reilly
FYI, version 0.5.7. is now available on opkg.org. * Seeking works again (gstreamer). * Random play implemented (gstreamer). * Pulled in misc., minor GUI enhancements from Paul TT (developer from whom the this version was branched). * Moved settings around in config. file. All file

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-07 Thread Cameron Frazier
On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 22:00 -0500, Dylan Reilly wrote: FYI, version 0.5.7. is now available on opkg.org. * Seeking works again (gstreamer). * Random play implemented (gstreamer). * Pulled in misc., minor GUI enhancements from Paul TT (developer from whom the this version was branched). *

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-07 Thread The Digital Pioneer
Of course, opkg gives the obligatory segfault. Had to download package manually. :( ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Dylan Reilly wrote: Curse all these python 2.5 versus 2.6 issues! The mutagen package was actually built for 2.5 and not 2.6 (my fault). I have fixed this and uploaded a new version to opkg.org. Note that I changed the version number. I have also added a list of the dependencies and where

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-06 Thread David Garabana Barro
On Friday 06 March 2009 16:01:18 Helge Hafting wrote: Dylan Reilly wrote: I have reflashed SHR testing. Now I can't install mutagen_svn-4350-2_armv4t.ipk opkg just ends in Terminated no matter how I try. :-( I have the same problem. It seems opkg.org is truncating files, and almost every

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-06 Thread Dylan Reilly
Can you run: ar x [package name] correctly? If not then the package is corrupt. The package I uploaded to opgk.org is fine. If it got corrupted somewhere in the stream I cannot be of too much help. You can do what I did to get mutagen in the first place: install it to your desktop and then copy

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
FYI, there is a new version of pythm available on opkg.org I only miss one little thing When you add an entire directory to playlist, tracks are alphabetically ordered, but, if exists, they should be ordered by track # (from ID3 or ogg tags). This turns out to be a tricky problem. I have

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-04 Thread Marcel
Am Wednesday 04 March 2009 16:25:54 schrieb Stefan Monnier: FYI, there is a new version of pythm available on opkg.org I only miss one little thing When you add an entire directory to playlist, tracks are alphabetically ordered, but, if exists, they should be ordered by track # (from ID3

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-04 Thread David Garabana Barro
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 16:37:34 Marcel wrote: Am Wednesday 04 March 2009 16:25:54 schrieb Stefan Monnier: The current solution is the easiest and also the most flexible: no matter how you organize your directories, it should be pretty easy for you to fix your file names such that they

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-04 Thread The Digital Pioneer
I would not want to have to rename hundreds of files to get some media player sort them correctly just because it doesn't read id3 data... (Although my filenames actually do have the tracknums included) As Stefan said, this isn't a problem of the player not reading ID3 data, it's a problem

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-04 Thread David Garabana Barro
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 17:06:43 The Digital Pioneer wrote: I would not want to have to rename hundreds of files to get some media player sort them correctly just because it doesn't read id3 data... (Although my filenames actually do have the tracknums included) As Stefan said, this

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-04 Thread Marcel
Am Wednesday 04 March 2009 17:24:18 schrieb David Garabana Barro: On Wednesday 04 March 2009 17:06:43 The Digital Pioneer wrote: I would not want to have to rename hundreds of files to get some media player sort them correctly just because it doesn't read id3 data... (Although my

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-04 Thread The Digital Pioneer
Well, the database processing would be slow of course, but more than that, an advanced collection manager would be very difficult (I would think) to use on the FR. The simple GUI Pythm has now tends to give me enough grief unless I use my stylus. ___

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-04 Thread Dylan Reilly
Pythm reads all tag data anyway. It is slow, but not overly so. That is the trade-off between having a player that uses pre-built playlists and one that builds them on the fly. Personally I go for the latter. As I mentioned before, I am planning to add some sort of session management. It might be

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-04 Thread Dylan Reilly
We have some ideas for a better GUI as well. My priority is getting functionality in first, however. FWIW, I just recently pulled some GUI updates from the guy from whom I branched pythm, Paul, that should help a *little*. These are in git now; I will be rolling out another build shortly. On

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
I think it's a problem of horsepower. I don't. If you can, as modern players do, read all id3 info of all tracks, and process it on a relational database, you can perfectly sort all your songs by author/album/year/genre/what you want ;) Actually, if you only use ID3 info, it's very

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-04 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
As I mentioned before, I am planning to add some sort of session management. It might be too IO intensive to cache all the tag data (as opposed to simply remembering file name), but it is a possibility. actually I think that storing them along with filenames in those 'sessions' would speed

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-04 Thread David Garabana Barro
O Mércores, 4 de Marzo de 2009, Stefan Monnier escribiu: Actually, if you only use ID3 info, it's very difficult to do a good job of sorting files: it's basically impossible to reliably figure out which songs are part of the same album and which aren't. You can use I've solved all those

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-04 Thread Pander
Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: As I mentioned before, I am planning to add some sort of session management. It might be too IO intensive to cache all the tag data (as opposed to simply remembering file name), but it is a possibility. actually I think that storing them along with filenames in those

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
Actually, if you only use ID3 info, it's very difficult to do a good job of sorting files: it's basically impossible to reliably figure out which songs are part of the same album and which aren't. You can use I've solved all those problems the first times I opened amarok, and now it's a

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-04 Thread Pander
Stefan Monnier wrote: Actually, if you only use ID3 info, it's very difficult to do a good job of sorting files: it's basically impossible to reliably figure out which songs are part of the same album and which aren't. You can use I've solved all those problems the first times I opened

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-04 Thread David Garabana Barro
O Mércores, 4 de Marzo de 2009, Stefan Monnier escribiu: Except that those ID3 tags have a clear meaning, and fixing them to get the sorting to work may imply breaking them in the sense that the info they carry is not quite correct any more. Tho, I guess it depends on the details: in which

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-04 Thread MarcO'Chapeau
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:41:59 +0100, David Garabana Barro da...@garabana.com wrote: Because you find changing ID3 tags to be simpler than changing file names. No, because I already have all my music with correct id3 tags, but not with homogenous filenames. Doing nothing is simpler than

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
Except that those ID3 tags have a clear meaning, and fixing them to get the sorting to work may imply breaking them in the sense that the info they carry is not quite correct any more. Tho, I guess it depends on the details: in which way did you change the ID3 info to solve such problems?

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-02 Thread Helge Hafting
Dylan Reilly wrote: I am not seeing this problem. Can you look through /etc/pythm.log and see if there is anything interesting in there, or send it to me? $ pythm No Locale found, falling back! Error was:[Errno 2] No translation file found for domain: 'pythm' new conf using gstreamer backend

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-02 Thread David Garabana Barro
O Xoves, 26 de Febreiro de 2009, Dylan Reilly escribiu: FYI, there is a new version of pythm available on opkg.org I only miss one little thing When you add an entire directory to playlist, tracks are alphabetically ordered, but, if exists, they should be ordered by track # (from ID3 or ogg

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-03-02 Thread Dylan Reilly
* The cannot set suspend messages are OK. They are there in debug output for the sake of debugging. Pythm requests CPU resource from FSO to halt suspending during playback. Frameworkd is smart enough to only allow one lock per process. That message is FSO telling pythm that. * I fixed the volume

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-27 Thread Helge Hafting
Dylan Reilly wrote: FYI, there is a new version of pythm available on opkg.org 2009-02-26 - Version 0.5.4-dmr: I installed that into a very recent SHR unstable - total failure. pythm comes up, but I see no files and no directories either. So I can't navigate to where my music is, and I can't

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-27 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
2008.12 + Kustomizer + opkg.org repository r...@om-gta02:~# opkg install pythm Installing pythm (0.5.4-dmr) to root... Segmentation fault :( The required dependencies should be installed already so I guess there's something wrong with the details of the package r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-27 Thread Dylan Reilly
The package installs fine for me (also under SHR unstable). I have seen seg fault on package install from time to time with misc. packages. Try rebooting. On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote: 2008.12 + Kustomizer + opkg.org repository r...@om-gta02:~# opkg

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-27 Thread Dylan Reilly
I am not seeing this problem. Can you look through /etc/pythm.log and see if there is anything interesting in there, or send it to me? On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no wrote: Dylan Reilly wrote: FYI, there is a new version of pythm available on opkg.org

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-27 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Dylan Reilly drei...@atariland.net wrote: I am not seeing this problem. Can you look through /etc/pythm.log and see if there is anything interesting in there, or send it to me? r...@om-gta02:/etc# opkg install pythm Installing pythm (0.5.4-dmr) to root...

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-27 Thread The Digital Pioneer
Pythm always crashes my opkg too. I just end up downloading the package manually and installing it with opkg install pkgfile which works. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-27 Thread Dylan Reilly
Sorry, meant /tmp/pythm.log. My brain is in another place sometimes. On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Dylan Reilly drei...@atariland.net wrote: I am not seeing this problem. Can you look through /etc/pythm.log and see if

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-27 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Dylan Reilly drei...@atariland.net wrote: Sorry, meant /tmp/pythm.log. My brain is in another place sometimes. Nope, nothing there, the file doesn't exist. r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-27 Thread Dylan Reilly
If that file does not exist after running the program then something really bizarre or horrible is happening. Suggestions: 1) Try using the mplayer backend just to see if it works. Edit /etc/pythm.conf and change the backend item. 2) Run pythm-bin from a command line and see if anything useful is

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-27 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
No I can't run the program because it's the INSTALLATION that segfaults.. see above: r...@om-gta02:/etc# opkg install pythm Installing pythm (0.5.4-dmr) to root... Segmentation fault r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-26 Thread Dylan Reilly
FYI, there is a new version of pythm available on opkg.org 2009-02-26 - Version 0.5.4-dmr: --- * Fixed many issues with skip and previous. They should behave as expected now. * Removed dependence on pyalsaaudio. Volume changing is handled via the back-ends once again.

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-18 Thread Helge Hafting
Dylan Reilly wrote: Curse all these python 2.5 versus 2.6 issues! The mutagen package was actually built for 2.5 and not 2.6 (my fault). I have fixed this and uploaded a new version to opkg.org. Note that I changed the version number. The mutagen problem is fixed indeed. When running pythm, I

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-17 Thread Dylan Reilly
Curse all these python 2.5 versus 2.6 issues! The mutagen package was actually built for 2.5 and not 2.6 (my fault). I have fixed this and uploaded a new version to opkg.org. Note that I changed the version number. I have also added a list of the dependencies and where one can acquire them to the

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Dylan Reilly wrote: 1) Yaroslav Halchenko got me off my lazy butt and we are going to be actively collaborating on further pythm hacking. This is good because he is already correcting my horrible python :^) My git fork can be found at http://github.com/negi/pythm for all those interested.

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-16 Thread Denis Johnson
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Dylan Reilly drei...@atariland.net wrote: One of my primary uses for the openmoko is a music player Just as a general question, and I apologize to the community if this has been discussed here previously. I wonder if anyone has tried to run VLC from

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-14 Thread Dylan Reilly
It looks like gstreamer cannot read mp3 files. Do you have the gstreamer module that handles mp3 playing installed? It is gst-plugin-mad. Technically it is optional since one does not *need* it to use pythm. Furthermore, mp3 playing stuff has been removed from the official openmoko repos, so you

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-14 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Dylan Reilly drei...@atariland.net wrote: It looks like gstreamer cannot read mp3 files. Do you have the gstreamer module that handles mp3 playing installed? It is gst-plugin-mad. Technically it is optional since one does not *need* it to use pythm.

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-13 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
There're some problems installing pythm on 2008.12: Check the comments at http://www.opkg.org/package_1.html and I have the same: r...@om-gta02:/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages# DISPLAY=:0 pythm Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/pythm-bin, line 14, in module main() File

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-13 Thread Dylan Reilly
The package on opkg.org is built for python 2.6 while 2008.12 is using python 2.5. Since there are no code changes required between python versions, you can simply copy /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pythm to /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pythm On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Risto H.

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-13 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Dylan Reilly drei...@atariland.net wrote: The package on opkg.org is built for python 2.6 while 2008.12 is using python 2.5. Since there are no code changes required between python versions, you can simply copy /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pythm to

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-12 Thread Dylan Reilly
1) Yaroslav Halchenko got me off my lazy butt and we are going to be actively collaborating on further pythm hacking. This is good because he is already correcting my horrible python :^) My git fork can be found at http://github.com/negi/pythm for all those interested. 2) I uploaded a new

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-12 Thread Petr Vanek
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:55:15 -0500 Dylan Reilly drei...@atariland.net (DR) wrote: 1) Yaroslav Halchenko got me off my lazy butt and we are going to be actively collaborating on further pythm hacking. This is good because he is already correcting my horrible python :^) My git fork can be found at

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-12 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
1) Yaroslav Halchenko got me off my lazy butt and we are going to be actively collaborating on further pythm hacking. This is good because he is already correcting my horrible python :^) My git fork can be found at http://github.com/negi/pythm for all those interested. The least I can do is

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-12 Thread Dylan Reilly
The pyaslsa-audio dependency has been discussed in this thread before a link for a 2.6 version of it. I believe I got it from FSO unstable. Mutagen is up on opkg.org as well. On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Petr Vanek van...@penguin.cz wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:55:15 -0500 Dylan Reilly

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-11 Thread Beni
, Beni -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/-All--To-build-a-better-music-player-tp2164014p2307541.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-11 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
I tried to install pythm from opkg.org with no success on om2008.12: r...@om-gta02:~# opkg install mutagen http://www.opkg.org/packages/pythm_0.5.2-dmr_armv4t.ipk Downloading http://www.opkg.org/packages/pythm_0.5.2-dmr_armv4t.ipk Terminated r...@om-gta02:~# opkg install

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-11 Thread Dylan Reilly
I will take a look at both of these problems; they're probably both my fault. However, I am in the middle of playing with integrating with the new fso framework, so it may take a day. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote: I tried to install pythm from opkg.org

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-05 Thread Dylan Reilly
For what it's worth, I put an updated version on opkg.org [1]. Since the last version, I: re-enabled seeking (UI for it still has some bugs), made the mplayer back-end use mutagen as well, and stopped the script that runs the program from exiting so enlightenment's start feedback does not

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-04 Thread Helge Hafting
Dylan Reilly wrote: I am still in the process of making changes, but I have some packages if anyone wants to try it. This version has the option of using a gstreamer back-end (the default with the packaged config file) instead of mplayer. By using gstreamer, CPU and memory load have been

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
Before, mplayer took 40%-50% of cpu according to top. Now, pythm-bin uses 48%-49% instead. This when playing stereo .ogg Still sounds much too high. Even my home router (266MHz MIPS) decodes .ogg with less than 30% of CPU. Usind `mpd', my FR shows significantly less than 20% CPU decoding

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-31 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 30 January 2009, Al Johnson wrote: On Friday 30 January 2009, Joel Newkirk wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:31:21 +, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: On Friday 30 January 2009, Joel Newkirk wrote: Any idea where I can find python-pyalsaaudio? not found on

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 30 January 2009, Joel Newkirk wrote: Any idea where I can find python-pyalsaaudio? not found on SHR, can't find a package anywhere. (except armv7a at angstrom) http://openmoko.truebox.co.uk/repos/mazikeen/fso-testing/ipk/armv4t/python- pyalsaaudio_0.3-ml0_armv4t.ipk

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-30 Thread kimaidou
Hi Dylan, First of all, thanks a lot for sharing your work. Do you mind to add you new version to www.opkg.org, so that the links (and updates) are not lost in the mailing list ? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-30 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:31:21 +, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: On Friday 30 January 2009, Joel Newkirk wrote: Any idea where I can find python-pyalsaaudio? not found on SHR, can't find a package anywhere. (except armv7a at angstrom)

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-30 Thread Dylan Reilly
To answer a few questions: 1) The new gstreamer back-end uses mutagen to read tag data from mp3 and ogg and not ID3. You will want to use the package I made for mutagen since no other exists. I did not bother updating the mplayer back-end as consider that deprecated at this point. That one still

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-30 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Thank you Dylan once again what about ability to seek within a song? is it doable for gstreamer? On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Dylan Reilly wrote: To answer a few questions: 1) The new gstreamer back-end uses mutagen to read tag data from mp3 and ogg and not ID3. You will want to use the package I

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-30 Thread Dylan Reilly
Yes it is. The problem is the UI more than anything. Since the freerunner is kinda slow and has no accelerated graphics, there is input lag - especially when the CPU is pegged from the decoding. There was a seek in the original pythm and I removed it because of that reasons. I will play around

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 30 January 2009, Joel Newkirk wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:31:21 +, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: On Friday 30 January 2009, Joel Newkirk wrote: Any idea where I can find python-pyalsaaudio? not found on SHR, can't find a package anywhere. (except

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
2) I would have liked to use mpd, but I have never been able to find a package for it for arm. It is not feasible to stream from a server, since I listen to music in my car. Hmm I'm under Debian where I just apt-get install mpd. But `mpd' is packaged for OpenWRT and AFAIK there's also one

Setting up MPD (was: [All] To build a better music player)

2009-01-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
In my experience, MPD is a pain to set up. Hmm... that's probably something we can improve. I had no trouble with it but then it wasn't the first time I set it up: could you give us some hint what was difficult? Stefan ___ Openmoko

Re: Setting up MPD (was: [All] To build a better music player)

2009-01-30 Thread The Digital Pioneer
Ahh, just when I want a media player, the last thing I usually want to do is edit conf files. Now, I'm not afraid of doing so, and I did, but then it still took a while. Then, I had to find a client, and perhaps I got a bad one (I don't remember which I used) but it was pretty tough to pair the

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-29 Thread Dylan Reilly
I am still in the process of making changes, but I have some packages if anyone wants to try it. This version has the option of using a gstreamer back-end (the default with the packaged config file) instead of mplayer. By using gstreamer, CPU and memory load have been reduced, and I was able to

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
I am still in the process of making changes, but I have some packages if anyone wants to try it. This version has the option of using a gstreamer back-end (the default with the packaged config file) instead of mplayer. By using gstreamer, CPU and memory load have been reduced, and I was able

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-29 Thread The Digital Pioneer
In my experience, MPD is a pain to set up. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-29 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
wonderful - thank you Dylan, pythm feels really nice now with gstreamer. I wonder if are going to add seeking support to change position within the song with gstreamer? it would be really great! btw -- what version of ID3 python's library do you use? om's repository seems to lack any package for

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-29 Thread The Digital Pioneer
A, much better!! Gstreamer makes a difference. :) I just wish the volume slider were bigger, it's hard to get my fingernail on it just right... :( Also, is there a way to make the script not exit until pythm exits? It confuses the SHR loading screen when it exits immediately. Really

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-29 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:09:39 -0500, Dylan Reilly drei...@atariland.net wrote: I am still in the process of making changes, but I have some packages if anyone wants to try it. This version has the option of using a gstreamer back-end (the default with the packaged config file) instead of

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-24 Thread Helge Hafting
disappeared after another restart of pythm. The only problem I see now, is that the play list no longer show. It is always empty, but the songs I selected play anyway. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/-All--To-build-a-better-music-player-tp2164014p2208710.html Sent from the Openmoko

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-23 Thread Helge Hafting
The bigger buttons are nice! It paused whan a call came in too. :-) Can you get these improvements into the pythm image at opkg and/or SHR? Helge Hafting ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Helge Hafting wrote: The bigger buttons are nice! It paused whan a call came in too. :-) Can you get these improvements into the pythm image at opkg and/or SHR? Seems I spoke too soon. Everything got better except the pauses between songs - they got much worse. :-( It is faster to restart

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-23 Thread Dylan Reilly
I am working on a gstreamer version ATM which will allow me to work around the limitations of mplayer. If/when I get this done, I will work on making a package and/or seeing if I can integrate with the main pythm distribution. On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-20 Thread Helge Hafting
Steven ** wrote: Unless I'm misinterpreting, what you want is already there. Just select the directory and add it. This assumes your music is sorted with each album in a subdirectory, which seems pretty common. Ah, so that is what the button with the square do. I use + when adding songs. But

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-20 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
An ipk would be appreciated for an easy testing :) (and maybe upload it to opkg.org?) r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-19 Thread Helge Hafting
Dylan Reilly wrote: One of my primary uses for the openmoko is a music player, and I have spent some time trying to improve my listening experience with it. I wanted to make a web page or such on the subject but I am highly unmotivated to do so. In lieu of that, I am posting my findings here.

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-19 Thread Steven **
Unless I'm misinterpreting, what you want is already there. Just select the directory and add it. This assumes your music is sorted with each album in a subdirectory, which seems pretty common. -Steven On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no wrote: Perhaps an add

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-16 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Dylan Reilly wrote: Audio Player When I started my quest, there was no music player that met my needs. The two that were close were pythm and mokoko. Mokoko has more potential, I believe. However, it has (had?) issues resuming from a suspend (crucial for me). That seems to imply

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-16 Thread Dylan Reilly
I looked around for an mpd package for arm for quite some time in the past but turned up dry. Do you know of one? Since I use my freerunner on the go it is not a useful option to connect to a remote mpd server. On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: 1)

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-16 Thread Dylan Reilly
The locale error is a red herring. I will try to devote some time this weekend to fixing the problem with ogg. I was short sighted when I added the ID3 tag reading and forgot to make it work with ogg too. If you are impatient, you can look in mplayerbackend.py and comment out the part that uses

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-16 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Thank you Dylan for improving pythm -- few days ago I've set up original version and was pleased to be able to listen to my mp3s from FR. Now I will give a try to your mods as soon as I get some spare time I guess it would be great if you expose your development a bit -- did you start off from

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-16 Thread The Digital Pioneer
If you are impatient, you can look in mplayerbackend.py and comment out the part that uses ID3 to read file details. It's in the function that loads files into a play list. Just tried that, and now it all works fine except I can't seem to stop the music once it's playing. -- Thanks, The

[All] To build a better music player

2009-01-15 Thread Dylan Reilly
One of my primary uses for the openmoko is a music player, and I have spent some time trying to improve my listening experience with it. I wanted to make a web page or such on the subject but I am highly unmotivated to do so. In lieu of that, I am posting my findings here. Audio Quality

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-15 Thread Dylan Reilly
That is the mplayer back-end not loading. Check /tmp/pythm.log to see if there is anything useful in there. You can also try running python /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pythm/mplayer/mplayerbackend.py and seeing if it explodes. I may have missed a dependency. On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:41

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-15 Thread Dylan Reilly
You will need the python-pyalsaaudio package which may not be installed by default. On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Dylan Reilly drei...@atariland.net wrote: That is the mplayer back-end not loading. Check /tmp/pythm.log to see if there is anything useful in there. You can also try running

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-15 Thread Yorick Moko
just to let you know: bass can be boosted with a capacitator, but no official OM documentation on that one On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Dylan Reilly drei...@atariland.net wrote: One of my primary uses for the openmoko is a music player, and I have spent some time trying to improve my

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-15 Thread The Digital Pioneer
Results in SHR: All form controls greyed out and unusable except tabs at top. File browser is empty. Playlist is empty (because I can't add files). mplayer backend doesn't load. No way to play music that I can tell. :( -- Thanks, The Digital Pioneer

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-15 Thread Dylan Reilly
So I have read and am hungrily anticipating more details. On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com wrote: just to let you know: bass can be boosted with a capacitator, but no official OM documentation on that one On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Dylan Reilly

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-15 Thread The Digital Pioneer
OK, I installed python-pyalsaaudio and it seems the mplayer backend no longer crashes, but it complains that there's no locale or translation file. Also, my collection is OGG, which doesn't play. When I attempt to load a file, I see a line in the output saying error executing:'ARTIST'. This makes

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
1) Improved responsiveness, especially with regard to starting the next song in a play list. 2) Lowered processing overhead during main update loop. 3) Tweaked the GUI. Most notably, the buttons are larger. 4) Read ID3 tag info at play list load time using python ID3 library. 5) Optionally