Open Media Player
Open Media Player (referred as OMP, from now on) is an effort to re-create (closed source) stock Media Player (referred as MP, from now on) for Maemo platform, as Open Software. The main goal of the project, is to include all features of MP without it's bugs - at the same time having ability to extend functionality, when desired and appropriate.
OMP is currently in beta stage, so it may not be ready for end-users. Ho ever, brave souls (power-users, testers, developers) are encouraged to test it and participate in development, by either submitting patches, or pointing out bugs/proposed features. OMP is on it's way to be included in testing branch of CSSU.
OMP can be installed from repositories: extras-devel
OMP got it's thread on http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=72156
(discussion, reporting bugs, proposing features, etc.)
Latest version is 20111116-1
Changelog for lastest version:
- Added an option to open all songs from a folder.
- Stopping the playback on exit is now the default behavior.
- New translations: Russian by wow23, Czech by Linnar.
- When changing song/radio, info is updated even in the stopped state.
- The radio window displays better info and looks more like the stock one.
- Added an option to edit radio bookmarks.
OMP extra features (not found in MP):
- Portrait Mode – portrait mode support
- Entertainment View – an alternate view where the elements in the regular "Now Playing" view are animated
- Car View – finger-friendly view for use when driving
- Lyrics display – ability to display loaded lyrics
- Addition of "Share" option
- Configurable size of automatic playlists – which enables you to see as many songs as you like, sorted by date of adding to the library, last time played, or the play count
- Playlist editing – for both saved playlists and "Now playing"
- Manually selectable album art
- Creating playlists from a folder
MP features, currently lacking in OMP:
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Known bugs:
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Planned extra features (not present in MP):
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Translations
The list below shows translations packaged (or about to be packaged) with OMP and their completeness.
- Czech (99%)
- German (100%)
- Spanish (98%)
- Finnish (100%)
- French (99%)
- Italian (100%)
- Dutch (100%)
- Polish (100%)
- Romanian (98%)
- Russian (97%)
- Swedish (100%)
- Chinese (99%)
Tweaks
Make OMP the default media player
As root, edit file:
- /usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.nokia.mediaplayer.service
so the line:
Exec=/usr/bin/mediaplayer
...becomes:
Exec=/usr/bin/openmediaplayer
This will replace execution of MP binary with OMP one - without physically replacing files, so You can revert back to MP by reverting changes.
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