Quasar Media Player Released For Sharprom And Pdaxrom

[Frederic Bergeron]

Yeah, indeed, the animation is great, very smooth. Cool!

[ofels]

ofels, any news on the OpenEmbedded/Ångström package/recipe?

BTW, I forgot to tell that quasar is available in the Angstrom feeds for a while now.

Oliver

[eviLjazz]

Thanks for the good news, Oliver!
I really need to check out Ångström soon.
All right, back to QScrobbler...

UPDATE:
I've released QScrobbler: https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=25280

[Asterix]

Another idea for you:

When I turn off the LCD with the 3 key while playing music, it'd be nice if the touch screen was also disabled. You could make it an option for those who don't like that idea. I've inadvertently touched the screen in the top right-hand corner, putting the program into input mode, all while the LCD was off. I had to turn my Z off to get the screen back on, since pressing 4 put a 4 in the text box rather than turning the LCD back on.

This happened to me in my car, which is usually where I'm playing music. The Z sits on the passenger seat with the screen open. If I pick it up wrong, say at a stop light to see what's playing, this can happen.

Again, I put in a ticket at Katastrophos as an enhancement, but I thought I'd repeat it here.

Asterix

[the_oak]

I have been enjoying this media player for a while now, but recently had a problem with some movies that I had watched before not playing. I got a message saying something about a format problem (sorry, I didn't record exact message). I reinstalled Quasar, and Mplayer. This did not fix the problem. I deleted the movie, and re-copied it to the CF card, thinking maybe the movie file was corrupt. This did not fix it either. I finally deleted the playlists and remade them in quasar. That fixed the problem.

I'm guessing that maybe removing CF card with quasar open maybe corrupted the playlist file. Just putting this experience in this thread in case someone else has a similar problem.

[speculatrix]

you need to port this to Android and claim some of that bonus!

[eviLjazz]

Thanks for reporting the bugs! I'll try to fix them with the next release.
the_oak, weird problem there. Perhaps the media database got corrupted. In that case you can just delete ~/.quasar/quasar.sqlite3. Quasar will rebuild it then.

speculatrix, Android looks interesting. However, I don't jump on the bandwagon because there is a hype and a large company backing it. Besides, Android means Java(-like programming) and a different toolkit and thus simply porting won't work here. I just don't see any reason to rewrite Quasar for Android now. I'd rather stick with Qt as it has platform independence to start with. I have Quasar running on Sharp Qtopia/pdaXrom Qt/X11, Ubuntu (my laptop) and OS X (my workstation). And it will compile and run on any other Unix-like platform that has a Qt 2 or 3 port, a decent X11 server and mplayer. This is the reason why I ported Quasar to work with Qt and X11 in the first place. Same codebase, more choices!
Anyway, if anybody wants to hire me at a fulltime rate to rewrite Quasar for Android I am in for it! And seriously, I don't think Google would be interested in a media player. I think they are rather looking for new apps to better leverage their services. That's the whole point of the challenge.

[matthis]

I would like to listen to music that is on my computer's hd,  with Quasar on my Z via wireless.
Is there any easy way to do that? Like support for itunes sharing or some other form of playlist sharing?

thanks

[speculatrix]

I would like to listen to music that is on my computer's hd,  with Quasar on my Z via wireless.
Is there any easy way to do that? Like support for itunes sharing or some other form of playlist sharing?

samba share?

[ofels]

I would like to listen to music that is on my computer's hd,  with Quasar on my Z via wireless.
Is there any easy way to do that? Like support for itunes sharing or some other form of playlist sharing?

thanks

*rant on* Did someone say UPnP support for Quasar ?  

Oliver

[xamindar]

One little thing that bugs me about quazar is this:

If the zaurus takes a little too long to read the mp3 file (has to spin up the disk or I was doing other resource hogging things with my Z) then quazar stops completely and displays an error message saying it couldn't play the track and prompting me to modify the mplayer commands to fix it.  What I think it should do, and please enlighten me if there is an option for this, is just skip the track and go on to the next one if it can't play it for some reason.

If I was listening to my music on the go and have my zaurus closed then I find myself every once and a while when the music stops having to open it up, close that error message and press play again to continue listening to music.  It also seems to happen if I skip to the next track and then the next track too fast.

[eviLjazz]

One little thing that bugs me about quazar is this:

If the zaurus takes a little too long to read the mp3 file (has to spin up the disk or I was doing other resource hogging things with my Z) then quazar stops completely and displays an error message saying it couldn't play the track and prompting me to modify the mplayer commands to fix it.  What I think it should do, and please enlighten me if there is an option for this, is just skip the track and go on to the next one if it can't play it for some reason.

If I was listening to my music on the go and have my zaurus closed then I find myself every once and a while when the music stops having to open it up, close that error message and press play again to continue listening to music.  It also seems to happen if I skip to the next track and then the next track too fast.

Please file a bug report here: http://trac.katastrophos.net/quasar/newticket

[speculatrix]

having played with angstrom and android, and gotten fed up of not actually *doing* anything, and the honeymoon with the n800 is losing its bloom, I'm going to be dual-booting cacko and debian... the first non-cacko-feed  app I wanted to install was Quasar! It definitely lives up to expectations, and is a welcome shot in the arm for cacko. great app!

[xamindar]

is a welcome shot in the arm for cacko. great app!

But it also runs on cacko.  How is it a shot in the arm?

[speculatrix]

is a welcome shot in the arm for cacko. great app!

But it also runs on cacko.  How is it a shot in the arm?

ah, you misunderstood, a "shot in the arm" means invigorated: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/318925.html