Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-14 Thread Thomas Köckerbauer
I was also searching for an audioplayer meeting my requirements (which are quite basic), but none of those I found really fullfilled them. So I started to make a new one, which is not really finished yet (I wanted to make it a bit more complete before I announce it, but I thought it might fit

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-14 Thread Dylan Reilly
FWIW, the qtopia media player in the testing branch is vastly better than it was. Volume control even works now without causing distortion! From my observations, the audio quality issue has been due to CPU load and not the player itself. Even in fairly recent builds, the poor freerunner was

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-14 Thread Max Giesbert
hi just tried to build your app. how did you get epeg into your toolchain? can't find it in the repos... i get the following when running: $om-conf audioplayer checking for E... configure: error: Package requirements ( evas ecore ecore-evas edje eet epeg ) were not met: No package

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-14 Thread carmen r
On Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 05:41:55PM -0400, Dylan Reilly wrote: FWIW, the qtopia media player in the testing branch is vastly better than it was. Volume control even works now without causing distortion! From my observations, the audio quality issue has been due to CPU load and not the player

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-14 Thread Sarton O'Brien
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 05:42:32 Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote: Xavier Cremaschi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want a single view named Folders (which would be a file explorer) instead of the existing Albums, Artists, Genre. I totally understand that a tag-based player could be

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-14 Thread Thomas Köckerbauer
I'm using debian. Since epeg is still not in the debian repository so I compiled it from the source package I got from http://debian.alphagemini.org/dists/unstable/main/source/libs/ (First I wanted to use epsilon instead of epeg but the version I had always produced a strange error, it always

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-14 Thread Dylan Reilly
The qtopia mediaserver takes ~35% cpu to play my max bitrate VBR-encoded mp3's. I don't have mplayer installed and not /dev/dsp for madplay so I cannot test with those. For average tasks, the UI is still nicely responsive in these latest testing builds. Anytime the load gets to 2, though, you

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-13 Thread Xavier Cremaschi
Robin Paulson a écrit : 2008/10/13 Xavier Cremaschi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: how did you get it to recognise tags? i imported some songs, all with id3 tags. none of the tags were recognised, the songs are all listed by filename, with 'unknown artist' and 'unknown album' any ideas? In fact

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-13 Thread Dan Jensen
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

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-13 Thread GNUtoo
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:45:01AM +0200, Xavier Cremaschi 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 : 1. audio quality is bad (whereas it is good

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-13 Thread Xavier Cremaschi
Dan Jensen a écrit : 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

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-13 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/10/13 Xavier Cremaschi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1. audio quality is bad (whereas it is good with Debian+Sonata/Mpd, so definitively not a hardware problem here) : is there a way to tune some parameters ? 2. external speakers still work after headphones being plugged : is there an alsa

RE: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-13 Thread Matthias Camenzind
Convert the audio files before you copy them to the FR. The bad quality is caused of that pulseaudio and the openmoko-mediaplayer uses near to 100% cpu time. I converted some mp3 to mono 64kbps, they sound good.And cpu usage is around 60%. Here a little script: #!/bin/bash # execute it in a

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-13 Thread Alastair Johnson
Sam Kuper wrote: 2008/10/13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I was *very* disapointed when I discovered the audio quality via headphones:in IRC they told me that it was because the capacitor(that is between headphone out and the sound card)'s value was too low and

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-13 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/10/13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was *very* disapointed when I discovered the audio quality via headphones:in IRC they told me that it was because the capacitor(that is between headphone out and the sound card)'s value was too low and acted as a filter... As I am too afraid of breaking the

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-13 Thread Xavier Cremaschi
Matthias Camenzind a écrit : Convert the audio files before you copy them to the FR. The bad quality is caused of that pulseaudio and the openmoko-mediaplayer uses near to 100% cpu time. I converted some mp3 to mono 64kbps, they sound good.And cpu usage is around 60%. Here a little script:

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-13 Thread GNUtoo
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:45:01AM +0200, Xavier Cremaschi 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 : 1. audio quality is bad (whereas it is good

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-13 Thread Xavier Cremaschi
Mmmm that's strange because everything sounds good under Debian. But thanks for the hint, I will check my cpu usage. You are right, after a bit of killing : - it sounds good with qtopia media player, and mediaserver eats 45% of CPU in top - it sounds good too with mplayer (frontend here

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-13 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:45:01AM +0200, Xavier Cremaschi 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 : 1. audio quality is bad (whereas it is good

Re: [Om2008.9] Using Freerunner as a digital audio player

2008-10-13 Thread David Garabana Barro
El Luns, 13 de Outubro de 2008, Matthias Camenzind escribió: Convert the audio files before you copy them to the FR. The bad quality is caused of that pulseaudio and the openmoko-mediaplayer uses near to 100% cpu time. I converted some mp3 to mono 64kbps, they sound good.And cpu usage is