Thread: openMobile 0.8 Released

Just a further note on my hibernate/resume issue. Note that it is only obvious using HD Radio (Line-In) but I don't claim it's the plugin. I'm just lost really....

If HD Radio is playing, then hibernate, resume, the radio appears to be playing, but no audio coming out. If I exit OM, go back in, play radio, it works.

If I play music, hibernate, resume, I hear music. If I switch to Radio, no audio, I actually still hear the music. Exit OM and back in, things work.

If I exit OM and then hibernate, fire up OM, things seem to work as intended.

I do notice when I exit OM there are several instances of the ffdshow icon in the running tasks bar in windows.

Perhaps not related, but I hear click/pop sound between songs in the music library.

Still lovin the latest release though. Definite improvements.

Cheers,
John

Running on my Desktop PC (Win7 64bits). It does not show my webcam. After I select some plugins, how can I install some more?

Also, I have seven drives in this system, and I can't scroll after the third drive, only documents, music (that's disorganized music and other sound files, samples, beeps, etc.), videos, pictures, plus drives c, d and e are shown. My Music colection is on drive F: and I can't select it or type it.

Originally Posted by jmullan99

Thanks. That seems to work. But not consistently. If I pick a song to start on, it is difficult to get it back to random play.

Can you explain?

Originally Posted by nasa

Following you notes, OM does indeed install without issue (using only default plugins & skins). However, the app still fails to start. I have attached a log file of what OM puts out when I try and run it.

Can you post /home/UserName/.config/openMobile/Debug.txt? (may need to install the OMDebug plugin)

Originally Posted by RipplingHurst

Running on my Desktop PC (Win7 64bits). It does not show my webcam.

What type of webcam is it?

Originally Posted by RipplingHurst

After I select some plugins, how can I install some more?

Start Menu -> openMobile -> Install Additional Plugins

Originally Posted by RipplingHurst

Also, I have seven drives in this system, and I can't scroll after the third drive, only documents, music (that's disorganized music and other sound files, samples, beeps, etc.), videos, pictures, plus drives c, d and e are shown. My Music colection is on drive F: and I can't select it or type it.

Are any of those network drives? or usb drives? or all physical drives? (looks like this could be the first bug that slipped through)

Originally Posted by justchat_1

Can you post /home/UserName/.config/openMobile/Debug.txt? (may need to install the OMDebug plugin)

Reinstalled (including adding the OMDebug plugin) and ran again -- no debug file is created.

Originally Posted by justchat_1

Originally Posted by jmullan99

Thanks. That seems to work. But not consistently. If I pick a song to start on, it is difficult to get it back to random play.

Can you explain?

Yes, perhaps I should have been more specific. Random itself seems to work. If I enter into the music function, with shuffle already enabled, and press play, it starts with the first item in my collection, then the next song(s) for the artist, then the remainder of my library will be shuffled. So I try to skip to a different artist/song by selecting it (hence my previous quote), then it plays through that artist. I should probably leave that play to see if it resumes shuffle after that as well.

I have not tried using playlists. Does shuffle work on playlists? Perhaps I could build a list with all songs and let that play.

Thanks for listening

John

As of right now, when playing in random mode, if you ask OM to play all the songs in the library, it will start with a random song from the 1st artist and the 1st album. This is done for performance reasons. As the song is playing, it starts to build the playlist in the background. This is done for instant response. If we were to wait for it to build the playlist, depending on the size of the music collection, there could be a noticable lag before the music starts, and we try not to be laggy. Where this becomes an issue, is when the 1st artist and the 1st album of that artist dont have that many songs to choose from. If you only have 2 songs, well its either going to start with 1 or other everytime you ask it to play.

If you select anything and press play, it is only going to play what was selected. There is no way to select a song to begin playback on that I know when playing an entire library particularly in random.

If you want it to randomize all of the songs, and not start with the first artists album, then load all the songs by selecting artists--> play. Then navigate to playlists, Long click the Current Playlist and name it something like ALL SONGS. Then anytime you want to play your entire collection and have it play randomly starting with any song, then you can just load that playlist.

Originally Posted by ws6vert

As of right now, when playing in random mode, if you ask OM to play all the songs in the library, it will start with a random song from the 1st artist and the 1st album. This is done for performance reasons...... If you only have 2 songs, well its either going to start with 1 or other everytime you ask it to play.

This explains a lot. And yes, I do have little items per most artists. Good or bad, I don't tend to collect whole albums, just the songs I like.

Originally Posted by ws6vert

If you select anything and press play, it is only going to play what was selected. There is no way to select a song to begin playback on that I know when playing an entire library particularly in random.

I kinda figured, but had to ask.

Originally Posted by ws6vert

If you want it to randomize all of the songs, and not start with the first artists album, then load all the songs by selecting artists--> play. Then navigate to playlists, Long click the Current Playlist and name it something like ALL SONGS. Then anytime you want to play your entire collection and have it play randomly starting with any song, then you can just load that playlist.

Works for me. I will definitely try this. As you can tell I don't necessarily try absolutely everything exhaustively. Without docs, I try to go at it intuitively then ask questions. Oh, and sometimes I completely forget about the gosh-darn long-click

Cheers,
John

We're working on the documentation, but glad I could help.

Originally Posted by jmullan99

Works for me. I will definitely try this. As you can tell I don't necessarily try absolutely everything exhaustively. Without docs, I try to go at it intuitively then ask questions. Oh, and sometimes I completely forget about the gosh-darn long-click

We have lots of documentation for skinners and developers...but the skin specific docs aren't really on the website-were going to create a subforum for them here. For example:
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/open...usic-skin.html