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Holger Macht

Maemo Music Player Client (MMPC) for Diablo

2009-02-24 08:56 UTC  by  Holger Macht
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Finally I took the time to respond to multiple requests about providing mmpc 0.2.1 packages for Diablo. That also gave me the possibility to try the maemo autobuilder to upload my packages to the extras repository. And well, it worked out. It’s especially useful for those people not running debian based systems, because with autobuilder you don’t have to care about signing and uploading the packages with debian tools like debsign and dput.

So, this is not a new release, these are just new packages build for the Diable 4.1 distribution. I still did not manage to find the time to enhance mmpc further. There are just too many other things like work and university I have to care about. Either download the packages from Maemo Garage, or just get it through the extras repository as usual.

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Holger Macht

Maemo Music Player Client 0.2.1

2008-04-14 15:21 UTC  by  Holger Macht
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I finally managed to get to work on MMPC after quite some time. MMPC 0.1 was 2007-11-14 08:45 (wow, that was pretty early in morning :-))

mmpc logo

Well, mmpc-0.2.1 is available for immediate consumption. Changes, which were major concerns until now, are:

  • New buttons and images, finally. And a new logo you can see above.
  • Add tap-and-hold functionality to more places. For example, it’s now possible to update the database from within the client.
  • Add scroll windows to all preference tabs to display the full content.
  • Bold the currently played track.
  • Increase connection timeout to 3 seconds. This will hopefully solve the strange disconnect issues I wasn’t able to reproduce.
  • Fixed tree browsing in playlist browser.

Fresh screenshots can be found here. Packages are available from the extras repository. So most people will get the update automatically (if anything goes wrong, try to enable red pill mode). Otherwise, grab them from garage.

Next things will include the support for some plugins. Please report any problems. Happy listening!

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Holger Macht

Fixing a broken N810, or: “A new way to freeze a device”

2008-01-12 14:05 UTC  by  Holger Macht
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Finally I ordered a Nokia N810 with my discount code provided by the Maemo project on Tuesday. It arrived Thursday. With all my tenseness and pleasant anticipation, it looked and felt great while having a quick glance. But the disenchantment followed right away:

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Holger Macht

MMPC for Chinook

2007-11-14 12:04 UTC  by  Holger Macht
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Even before the N810 is shipped, I’m able to to announce MMPC packages for the new Chinook 4.0 (OS2008) release. Untested in real production environments, of course, but I see no reason why it shouldn’t work outside my ARM development environment.

Packages are here (including libmpd). Please report any issues you might encounter.

Now I’m eagerly awaiting the availability of the N810 in Germany to finally get rid of my discount code. Thanks Nokia!

Player window

On a related note: I’m still looking for designers creating some nice, “Play”, “Stop”, “Pause”, “Backward” and “Forward” buttons. These are just too ugly in the current state. Nobody willing to help out?

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Holger Macht

MMPC for the N770

2007-10-18 21:24 UTC  by  Holger Macht
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I am proud to announce that there finally are Maemo Music Player Client packages built for the N770 (OS2006). It is thanks to Christopher Klein, who did the required code changes and the rebuild, that my inbox will be delivered from requests about this apparently important missing piece.

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Holger Macht

Couch potato goodies

2007-02-19 17:12 UTC  by  Holger Macht
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Maemo Music Player Client

As briefly mentioned last time, I got a developer code for a Nokia n800. Thanks. I already had a n770, so without further ado, I decided to purchase one. And that really kept me on the go the last couple of weeks. At home, my computer is connected to my stereo system to play my mp3s with passable good sound. So having a n800 with wlan, I thought there has to be a possibility to use it as remote control. Looking for something at the web, I shortly found the Music Player Daemon (mpd) to be used as a service running on my home computer managing and playing my mp3 collection. And very easy to install. Well, first duty was to find a good client that works on the n800. Trying two web based clients and noticing that they are ugly was not really satisfying. It was not hard to build
the Gnome Music Player Client with some small modifications inside my scratchbox environment for the Maemo platform. Too bad for me, the GUI is optimised for higher screen resolutions and for multi windowed systems.

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