Kino2 0.4.2 Is Out

[Flandry]

Another missing feature is to add all files in a directory to the playlist.

you can add a whole directory instead, I think
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Yes, just click the + button while the folder is selected.  However, this doesn't work with a directory depth of greater than one, which would be nice.  My music is stored Artist/Album/Songs, so if i want to add all of one artist to playlist it requires a directory traverse.  Not a big deal, though.

[silvio]

Hi,

it would be very nice to see a kino2 version which displays album covers during mp3 playback. eg. if kino2 finds a picture file named like the album id tag in the same directory.The Archos PMA430 player does this - its great!

Regards,
Silvio
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This is interesting idea . I will see if Qtopia label widget can display a picture along with text. If it does, that can be implemented relatively easily...
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I took a look into the sources - as a first step you may assign the cover image to the background of the label control (backgroundPixmap()). Later on you could put two label controls in the main view and hide one of them until a cover image is available.

regards,
Silvio

[ev1l]

Yes, just click the + button while the folder is selected.  However, this doesn't work with a directory depth of greater than one, which would be nice.  My music is stored Artist/Album/Songs, so if i want to add all of one artist to playlist it requires a directory traverse.  Not a big deal, though.

Ah yeah, that's a bug, really. I never noticed because I just rsync a flat directory on my desktop where I just copy a memory card's worth of music.

[maslovsky]

Yes, just click the + button while the folder is selected.  However, this doesn't work with a directory depth of greater than one, which would be nice.  My music is stored Artist/Album/Songs, so if i want to add all of one artist to playlist it requires a directory traverse.  Not a big deal, though.

Ah yeah, that's a bug, really. I never noticed because I just rsync a flat directory on my desktop where I just copy a memory card's worth of music.
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No, that's not a bug - I'm not adding subfolders intentionaly because if they have links it may end up into infinit loop.

[stupkid]

Yes, just click the + button while the folder is selected.  However, this doesn't work with a directory depth of greater than one, which would be nice.  My music is stored Artist/Album/Songs, so if i want to add all of one artist to playlist it requires a directory traverse.  Not a big deal, though.

Ah yeah, that's a bug, really. I never noticed because I just rsync a flat directory on my desktop where I just copy a memory card's worth of music.
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That sounds like a feature request.  

[ev1l]

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This is so wrong  
Doesn't really matter on a palmtop, though.
Stupkid: get out of my head

[jesizmi]

I'm not certain, whether it fits here at all, it could as well be a KO/PI issue.
From time to time, after using Kino2 for a longer period of time, KO/PI won't show up again. Only way to get it back to work, is a reboot (feels almost like windoze). I can't tell if it did happen with "old" mplayer, which was shipped with cacko 1.22, but now, KO/PI is often(not allways) disabled after a long Kino2-session.
Meanwhile, i am trying to avoid the problem, by not closing KO/PI before starting Kino2. This way KO/PI is still accessible after, or even during the use of Kino2.

May be one of maslovsky/Zautrix can figure out, what's wrong with using both of the best apps around.

TIA,
j.

[shreks]

Yes, just click the + button while the folder is selected.  However, this doesn't work with a directory depth of greater than one, which would be nice.  My music is stored Artist/Album/Songs, so if i want to add all of one artist to playlist it requires a directory traverse.  Not a big deal, though.

Ah yeah, that's a bug, really. I never noticed because I just rsync a flat directory on my desktop where I just copy a memory card's worth of music.
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That sounds like a feature request.  
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Yes, it is a feature request! And I have another feature REQUEST:

I bought my C3000 with the remote control earphone. It is nicely integrated with the Sharp's default music player: the functions of all buttons are supported by the music player and the power management works greatly too. However the default play cannot play OGG file which is my favorite because even VBR-encoded MP3 is still not as compact as OGG with the same sound quality.

I thoroughly tested the music play function of kino2 and found out the following problem:

1) The remote control earphone CE-RH2 has a MUTE function supported by its left wheel: scrolling this wheel up and down controls music volume and pressing this wheel switch MUTE status. Kino2 does not support the MUTE function from remote control yet.

2) There is an option in Kino2's preference dialog which can turn off LCD display when playing music. This is espeically useful when C3000 is used as a portable music player with its lid is closed. But if music play stopps, LCD display is turned on even when the lid is closed. This is apparently what we don't want. I think Kino2 should be able to detect the status of the lid and decide that: a) if the lid is closed, never LCD display should never be turned on no matter music is being played or not;  If the lid is open, then the current feature of controlling LCD display makes sense: turn off display when starting playing music and turn on display when finishing playing music. I noticed that Sharp's default music player can take care of this point very well.

After above two issues are solved, I can completely swith to kino2 player and use my C3000 as  a portable music player  since it also supports a variety of music files, even FLAC, based on mplayer.

Another requested feature is the display of tag information of music file, such as MP3, OGG and FLAC. I guess right now kino2 uses some default widgets to display tag information, so it cannot display Asian characters all of them are displayed as empty squares. It would be very helpful to use UTF-8 encoding and let user select which fonts to use to display the playlist and the tag info. This is very much like what KDE-PIM/PI does. This method works well even on the not-fully-englishlized OS on my C3000.

Thanks a lot!

[maslovsky]

1) The remote control earphone CE-RH2 has a MUTE function supported by its left wheel: scrolling this wheel up and down controls music volume and pressing this wheel switch MUTE status. Kino2 does not support the MUTE function from remote control yet.

As soon as I get what the keycode for that button is.

2) There is an option in Kino2's preference dialog which can turn off LCD display when playing music. This is espeically useful when C3000 is used as a portable music player with its lid is closed. But if music play stopps, LCD display is turned on even when the lid is closed. This is apparently what we don't want. I think Kino2 should be able to detect the status of the lid and decide that: a) if the lid is closed, never LCD display should never be turned on no matter music is being played or not;  If the lid is open, then the current feature of controlling LCD display makes sense: turn off display when starting playing music and turn on display when finishing playing music. I noticed that Sharp's default music player can take care of this point very well.

There is no way for me to detect if lid is open or closed, at least on my C750. The same key code comes with lid close and open events.

Another requested feature is the display of tag information of music file, such as MP3, OGG and FLAC. I guess right now kino2 uses some default widgets to display tag information, so it cannot display Asian characters all of them are displayed as empty squares. It would be very helpful to use UTF-8 encoding and let user select which fonts to use to display the playlist and the tag info. This is very much like what KDE-PIM/PI does. This method works well even on the not-fully-englishlized OS on my C3000.

Did you select proper locale for MP3 tags in kino2 preferences?

[craigtyson]

Like the new version its slicker than the old one.  May I make a few sugestions for the next version?

- clear list function aka OP2 to remove all files from the playlist
- add all Music / Video again aka OP2
- Movie playback without flicking back to the playlist between files

I have been using my Z in my car as a sterio ever since my CD player got nicked.  I built an amplifier, PSU and got a nice facier from Halfords to pu it all in which worked great.  Im now using a 750 with kino2 and get a loud click between each track in the playlist.  It doesnt happen in OP2 on my 5500 can this be resolved at or is it "built in" to the way kino calls mplayer ?

In any case Kino2 is improved over OP2 which tendes to crash in long AVI files.

PS What does Kino stand for ?

[stupkid]

Like the new version its slicker than the old one.  May I make a few sugestions for the next version?

Please use the Cacko bug database:

http://cacko.biz/cacko/bugs

You can enter any feature requests on that site.

[shreks]

As soon as I get what the keycode for that button is.

There is no way for me to detect if lid is open or closed, at least on my C750. The same key code comes with lid close and open events.

I think you can detect the launch and operation of kino2 by remote conotrol earphone, right? If so, it is most likely that user uses remote control to control kino2 to listen to music, and it's safe to turn LCD off as soon as kino2 starts.

Did you select proper locale for MP3 tags in kino2 preferences?

I set both locales to UTF-8, this is why I can see each asian character is displayed as a square, which means the encoding is correct. The only thing is to allow user to select the correct asian fonts, like kdepim/pi does. In kdepim/pi, after locale is set to utf-8, if the display fonts are the default japanese fonts, many asian characters are displayed as square. After selecting the right fonts, the display becomes correct.

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[maslovsky]

I think you can detect the launch and operation of kino2 by remote conotrol earphone, right?

Not really.  I can't detect if kino2 was launched with the remote or simply by tapping on its icon.

I set both locales to UTF-8, this is why I can see each asian character is displayed as a square, which means the encoding is correct. The only thing is to allow user to select the correct asian fonts, like kdepim/pi does. In kdepim/pi, after locale is set to utf-8, if the display fonts are the default japanese fonts, many asian characters are displayed as square. After selecting the right fonts, the display becomes correct.

I see now, you need to be able to select a different font for the playlist and main display.

[maslovsky]

PS What does Kino stand for ?
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This means "The Cinema" in Russian

[Kedge]

PS What does Kino stand for ?
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This means "The Cinema" in Russian
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Also in German   .

Kedge