ogg and sharp music player in latest cacko

[Anonymous]

Hi,
I was under impression that after installing vorbis-plugin
(which I did) it should be possible to play ogg files with the
default sharp music player (comes bundled in cacko ROM).
Is this true? If so what is the trick to make the music player
see the ogg files? I point it to the folder where I have my
ogg files (SD card) but it does not see them.
I also purchased tkcPlayer which sees the files and plays them
fine but has the problem that  it quits for no apparent reason
after playing fine for a while - other people
reported this as well and I knew about the possibility of problems
with this before I purchased it but decided to gamble $10).
BTW, this is all on c860 with latest cacko/qtopia + sukoshi kernel,
and my apps including the vorbis-plugin are installed in internal memory.
Thanks for any info/hints on how to get this to work if it is in fact
possible.

[clofland]

I\'m interested to see the answer here. I also tried the vorbis-plugin with the sharp player with no luck. I spent a lot of time messing with MIME types too. I just couldn\'t get the Sharp player to care about ogg files. I even tried renaming an ogg file to .mp3. Then Sharp would try it, but it just said it was a bad MP3.

I ended up buying the tkcPlayer. It works for me so far. Has only shut down once. ;-) From what I\'ve read, it seems to have to do with the encoding of the song. Some people were able to \"fix\" the problem by taking their orignial music files and encoding them to ogg again with a different program. However, if it is truly random, then they may just \"think\" that fixed it.

[tumnus]

Qtopia apps use the mime type file-application association to list files that they can open, but only one application can be associated with a mime type at a time.

tkcPlayer has probably got the association for audio/ogg so you need to remove it. The association will be in the file  tkcPlayer.desktop under one of the sub-directories under /home/QtPalmtop/apps. Then you need to restart Qtopia.

Or you could just uninstall tkcPlayer.

If it is still not picking it up after that, make sure the .ogg file extension is associated with the mime type audio/ogg in /home/QtPalmtop/etc/mime.types

[Anonymous]

Thanks for replies and suggestions. Will try uninstalling tkcplayer and see how it goes
after that. As far as ogg encoding, knowing that they may be problems with this I
downloaded tkcOggRipper (which by the way is the best tkc app I have used so far even
though it is free) and converted my original CD\'s with that using it\'s default quality settings.
But tkcplayer still shuts down randomly, regardless of whether I use Sash compiled kernel with cacko
ROM or Sukoshi kernel with cacko ROM. I have not tried other ROM\'s with tkcPlayer and
don\'t plan to switch any time soon since this latest cacko works great so far (it also has European fonts which is a must for me - if proto starts ofering other fonts and keyboards
via his feed I may take a look at tkc ROM again at that point).