Media Player

[Ian J]

I've been so impressed with the Pandora's audio quality want to start using it as my audio player while commuting.


Which player would people recommend, main things I want is an EQ setting and the ability to use the shoulder buttons for scanning audio and going to the next/previous track.


I've tried


Audacious


DeadBeef


Gnome Player?


GMU


Rockbox - Probably the most un-user friendly GUI I've ever used.


My Favourite is Audacious but it's still not got scanning using the shoulder buttons only via D-Pad.


Is there anything else people would recommend?


My

 

[Darkknight512]

For me Rockbox has always been great, its a little wonky to use because it is supposed to be used as a OS. I used it for a long time on an Ipod Nano 2g.


As an application on the desktop I like to use Deadbeef.

 

[Ian J]

Rockbox just seems so clunky, my 10 year old Archos has a more user friendly GUI.


Is there a guide to the GUI on it? Even things like adding mp3's to the play-list seem like hard work.

 

[renegadechic]

I installed Rockbox yesterday and its already my favourite player. The controls took a moment to work out but once I got going, I loved that it scanned my music drive (currently USB but I am planning to see if I can just wifi over a NAS), picked up all my music and the ID3 tags and I was good to go. Pretty much everything I wanted from a music player on my Pandora which I was yet to get from any other music player on there til then!

 

[Ian J]

Once I've amended the EQ settings how do I get back to the main menu?

 

[renegadechic]

i found pressing the left key or touching the touchscreen helped get back to menus

 

[Ian J]

Neither of those works in the EQ, but they do in other menus.

 

[DaMummy]

http://repo.openpand...tail&app=minamp is a very simple, and very easy to use as car audio player. uses L/R as selection as you like, and plays the right formats


i use audacious as my main player though

 

[skeezix]

Audacious

 

[sebt3]

Audacious

His issue is that L-trig and R-trig cannot be mapped as Previous and Next. Well there is a way :


Create these in your audacious appdata :


PND_post_script.sh :

#!/bin/sh

xmodmap - <<ENDL

keycode  62 = Shift_R NoSymbol Shift_R

keycode 105 = Control_R NoSymbol Control_R

ENDL

PND_pre_script.sh :

#!/bin/sh

xmodmap - <<ENDL

keycode  62 = XF86AudioPrev NoSymbol XF86AudioPrev

keycode 105 = XF86AudioNext NoSymbol XF86AudioNext

ENDL

But warning, that mean L-trig and R-trig wont work as shift/control while audacious is running, but if you enable the hotkey plugins, it will do what you want.

 

[Ian J]

Thank you for your help with this but it didn't work.


Can you give me more info, I'm a complete linux novice.


I'm probably going to come across as a complete thicky here but I created 2 text files with the names:


PND_post_script.sh


PND_pre_script.sh


Then pasted in the text from each box.


Finally I removed the .txt extension to leave a .sh extension.


Now what am I supposed to do as nothing has changed.

 

[F_Slim]

I'm no Linux buff either, but I guess you have to make the scripts executable?

chmod +x <filename>

 

[sebt3]

I'm no Linux buff either, but I guess you have to make the scripts executable?

chmod +x <filename>

Good idea but that's not needed in this case. (in most case, these files woud be stored on a vfat FS that doesnt support that anyway )

Can you give me more info, I'm a complete linux novice.

Did you indeed dropped these 2 files in the audacious appdata directory (/pandora/appdata/audacious) ?


Did you activated the "Global Hotkey" in the General tab from the Extention Modules in the Preferences windows (I hate that "windows" way of doing things) ?


If so what you did looked good, could you give me the pnd_run.sh output (/tmp/pndrun_audacious.out) so I can check what gone wrong ?

 

[Ian J]

I'm no Linux buff either, but I guess you have to make the scripts executable?

chmod +x <filename>

Good idea but that's not needed in this case. (in most case, these files woud be stored on a vfat FS that doesnt support that anyway )

Can you give me more info, I'm a complete linux novice.

Did you indeed dropped these 2 files in the audacious appdata directory (/pandora/appdata/audacious) ?

Did you activated the "Global Hotkey" in the General tab from the Extention Modules in the Preferences windows (I hate that "windows" way of doing things) ?

If so what you did looked good, could you give me the pnd_run.sh output (/tmp/pndrun_audacious.out) so I can check what gone wrong ?

I'm no Linux buff either, but I guess you have to make the scripts executable?

chmod +x <filename>

Good idea but that's not needed in this case. (in most case, these files woud be stored on a vfat FS that doesnt support that anyway )

Can you give me more info, I'm a complete linux novice.

Did you indeed dropped these 2 files in the audacious appdata directory (/pandora/appdata/audacious) ?


Did you activated the "Global Hotkey" in the General tab from the Extention Modules in the Preferences windows (I hate that "windows" way of doing things) ?


If so what you did looked good, could you give me the pnd_run.sh output (/tmp/pndrun_audacious.out) so I can check what gone wrong ?

That worked thank you.


The R + L buttons now jump to previous and next track.


What would I have to put to make them scan the music as the d-pad does (fast fwd/ rewind)

 

[sebt3]

What would I have to put to make them scan the music as the d-pad does (fast fwd/ rewind)

Edit PND_pre_script.sh to :

#!/bin/sh

xmodmap - <<ENDL

keycode  62 = XF86AudioRewind NoSymbol XF86AudioRewind

keycode 105 = XF86AudioForward NoSymbol XF86AudioForward

ENDL

 

[Ian J]

What would I have to put to make them scan the music as the d-pad does (fast fwd/ rewind)

Edit PND_pre_script.sh to :

#!/bin/sh

xmodmap - <<ENDL

keycode  62 = XF86AudioRewind NoSymbol XF86AudioRewind

keycode 105 = XF86AudioForward NoSymbol XF86AudioForward

ENDL

Just tried that and it doesn't work.


I'll give it another go when I get home from work.

 

[sebt3]

Just tried that and it doesn't work.

I'll give it another go when I get home from work.

Hum right, this is not configured in the plugins by default, so you'll need to :


1) select the Global Hotkey Plugin (see previous post ; keep it enabled)


2) drag the window a bit up (use shift + stylus) to unhide the Preferences button


3) click that Preferences button


4) drag that new window a bit up


5) click on "add"


6) select "Rewind 5 second" on the new line on the left


7) click click on the field on the right and press L-trig


8) do the step 5 to 7 to add the foward action using the R-trig


9) click "Ok"


10) restart audacious


11) done...finally


(ho god I hate when you need to use windows)

 

[Ian J]

Just tried that and it doesn't work.

I'll give it another go when I get home from work.

Hum right, this is not configured in the plugins by default, so you'll need to :


1) select the Global Hotkey Plugin (see previous post ; keep it enabled)


2) drag the window a bit up (use shift + stylus) to unhide the Preferences button


3) click that Preferences button


4) drag that new window a bit up


5) click on "add"


6) select "Rewind 5 second" on the new line on the left


7) click click on the field on the right and press L-trig


8) do the step 5 to 7 to add the foward action using the R-trig


9) click "Ok"


10) restart audacious


11) done...finally


(ho god I hate when you need to use windows)

I Really appreciate your help with this.


I got to #5 but when I press and release the R or L triggers they show in the box (SHIFT / CONTROL) but when I release them the box returns to it's previous setting.

 

[sebt3]

I got to #5 but when I press and release the R or L triggers they show in the box (SHIFT / CONTROL) but when I release them the box returns to it's previous setting.

restart audacious, retry. If still doesnt work, please post /tmp/pndrun_audacious.out

 

[DaMummy]

you know....i still have the problem with audacious where i cant pause, than resume a track using it....does anyone else have this problem?