Brainstorm: Brainstorms, category Media http://maemo.org%2Fcommunity%2Fbrainstorm%2Flist%2Fxml%2F%3Fstatus%3Dideas%26category%3DMedia/ Sat, 23 May 2026 23:51:49 +0000 FeedCreator 1.7.6(BH) en Implement portrait mode in Media Player (audio) http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/implement_portrait_mode_in_fremantle_media_player-audio/ It should really be possible to use Fremantle Media Player in the portrait mode, at least when playing audio. A typical usage pattern would be to keep Fremantle device in your pocket while listening to music, then quickly take it out with one hand to browse through the list of tracks. Portrait mode has following advantages here:

1. You can easily hold the device with one hand (like Nokia 5800 and similar devices)

2. The portrait-oriented track list can show more tracks

3. As the device is already sitting vertically in your pocket, to let the headphone wire out, you do not need to rotate it.

Discussion thread at http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=354939



2 solutions for this brainstorm.]]> luarvique@gmail.com (Marat Fayzullin) |Media| Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:19:27 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-0134060097d411de9765e9427609c411c411 Make the device into a P.A. microphone http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/make_the_device_into_a_p-a-microphone/ With the FM transmitter on the N900, it should be possible to make the device into a wireless microphone for public speaking events, using any portable stereo system with an FM radio in it. Older tablets could become wired microphones with the use of the headphone jack.

(sorry that I'm giving a solution in the idea, I don't know how else to phrase it)



2 solutions for this brainstorm.]]> qole@qole.org (alan bruce) |Games|Media|Utilities|Devices| Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:21:50 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-07e5aa4498bf11de8efd7762373526d826d8 Camera cover app activation choice http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/camera_cover_app_activation_choice/ Currently the Camera application is automatically started when the camera cover is slid open, users may want their own choice of camera handling application to open instead.



4 solutions for this brainstorm.]]> S.G.Pickering@bath.ac.uk (Simon Pickering) |Media|User Experience| Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:16:43 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-61aae7bee32a11de82153730bc1a34013401 Media player enhancements http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/media_player_enhancements/ Problem : Software on tablets not suitable for serious audiophiles. No EQ, poor navigation and management of playlists is very poor.

 

Description :

1. Players like the default media player on OS2008 and Canola do not have an equalizer. A good equalizer should provide both custom EQ as well as default builtins like "Rock", "Jazz" and so on which is common with many desktop media players as well as MP3 players.

 

2. Navigating around hundreds of music files is also a pain on most current media players on the tablets. Better solutions are required. For navigation, inspiration can be drawn from players like the iPod touch which provide an alphabetical scroll bar at the side which makes reaching to a song a snap, or the Sony Walkman Mp3 player with tabs for "A-F',"G-K" and so on at the top or various other interfaces.

When you have hundreds of songs on your tablet and you want to listen to THAT particular song, how do you do so? How many taps or scrolls are required to get to a song when you know the title of the song? How many taps or scrolls are required when you know the album? For a serious audiophile with a large library, FAST navigation is a very important requirements.

3. Other suggestions are on-the-device playlist support. Good media player software should support forming and saving playlists as well as transferring playlists in formats like m3u.

 

 



6 solutions for this brainstorm.]]> codedivine@gmail.com (rahul garg) |Media| Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:30:46 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-4de864885cff11debf57155b496516971697 Take photos with true Horizontals http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/take_photos_with_true_horizontals/ Taking pictures of landscapes of gives results where the horizon is at an angle because the camera has not been held horizontal. The picture typically has to be corrected afterwards in a photo editor.



3 solutions for this brainstorm.]]> mcychoy@gmail.com (mike choy) |Media| Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:32:44 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-581cb1aeaa2311deb41e15c54fb00d200d20 Finger Zoom in the image viewer http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/finger_zoom_in_the_image_viewer-003/
2 solutions for this brainstorm.]]> mcychoy@gmail.com (mike choy) |Media| Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:47:04 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-5855c7a8aa2511de8485714e37f0c3ffc3ff Headset button input reader http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/headset_button_input_reader/ Intro:

As you may or may not know the default headset coming with N900 doesn't support play/pause, next/forward, and volume up/dn and neither does N900 support other nokia headsets.

 

The idea is very simple:

A control panel applet that recognizes the input from the buttons of your wired headset and translates them into actions.

 

Discuss it here:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38799

Thank you for your interest and looking forward to reading your suggestions!



2 solutions for this brainstorm.]]> vadimpelau@yahoo.com (Pelau Vadim) |Media| Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:49:36 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-a4e8a6eaf6f511deb60c976b785886248624 More efficient and flexible use of internal flash http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/more_efficient_and_flexible_use_of_internal_flash/ about 27GB of the N900 internal flash memory are reserved for a VFAT (FAT32) partition which is mounted on /home/user/MyDocs and exported as USB mass storage.

The VFAT filesystem is an ancient, slow, inefficient (cluster size, bad for many small files) non-POSIX compatible (no symlinks, permissions etc) filesystem and only used for maximum compatibility when exporting it via USB mass storage.

 

It would be nice if it could be replaced by a ext3 or any another modern POSIX filesystem and merged with the /home partition so that all advantages of those file systems can be used.

This would remove the 2GB limit for the home partition and make a more standard Linux home directory layout possible (eliminating MyDocs, new directories Pictures, Documents etc. in the home directory).

 

For USB mass storage mode file system images with any file system (e.g. FAT32, ext3, NTFS, HFS+ depending on the users desktop OS) and arbitrary size could be stored on the partition and exported using loop devices.

Brainstorm forum thread



4 solutions for this brainstorm.]]> tanner@gmx.de (Tom Tanner) |Desktop|Media|System|Devices| Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:04:38 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-601168d6ed8111dea58895924fae814c814c Control music playback with the camera key http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/control_music_playback_with_the_camera_key/ This is a brainstorm to control the music playback with the camera key of the n900



6 solutions for this brainstorm.]]> pierre.abadie@gmail.com (Pierre Abadie) |Media| Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:41:57 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-3baa43eafed011de885169f005c7da7bda7b Touch based image rotation http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/touch_based_image_rotation/ How about being able to rotate an onscreen image in the photo viewer by dragging one of its corners around. This is a common requirement in taking photos adn would show off the touch screen



2 solutions for this brainstorm.]]> mcychoy@gmail.com (mike choy) |Media| Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:32:30 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-ba626d00a9be11deb6554da37f3256ca56ca