Yep...flow control is off!

Hyperterminal says it is connected even when I have the serial cable unplugged. ????????

Hyperterminal says it is connected even when I have the serial cable unplugged

That is normal. There is no "heartbeat" over the cable so it doesn't really know if it is connected or not. Try pressing Control and the 'C' key. That should also quit the player. And then do the ls command Tony explained.

-Mike

He does have the developer kernel correct? otherwise he can't get to the shell.

Hit Control^C instead then, nearly equivalent (and what I personally always use). That is, hold down the Ctrl key, and press/release the C key, then release the Ctrl key.

-ml

That was one of the mistakes made when installing this. Then I installed the developer image and forgot to reinstall hijack.

He does have the developer kernel correct

His boot log says he does...

I see this is a developer image!

So unless there is a bug with the player software identifying it that shouldn't be the problem. Perhaps the root partition is full and emphatic won't fit. If you can get to the shell you can use this command to check...

df -k /

or you can probably get your ftp client to tell you how much space is available (not sure how off the top of my head).

-Mike

ah, doh. shoulda read the boot log. =]

Well, good news. After many hours of trying to get it going, it is working. I think the magic potion was a combination of taking a couple of hours off to clear my head, and, reinstalling beta 13 developer and hijack. It is working fine. Man, this thing is great. Excellent job!!! Now, one with the editing of all of my songs. If I can do 10 a day, it will take me about, well, lets say I may never see em' all tagged.

Thanks for everybodys help!!!

Glad it's working for you now. Incidentally there are efforts underway to make tagging easier. And the LRC database should be up soon, which should help us all out.

Just a quick question regarding emphatic...Is it possible, or will it be possible, for the lyrics to stay in the "background" when you adjust the volume? To better clarify, when I adjust the volume of a song, emphatic does not stay on the display. I have to push in the volume knob, and it comes back up.

Just a quick question regarding emphatic...Is it possible, or will it be possible, for the lyrics to stay in the "background" when you adjust the volume? To better clarify, when I adjust the volume of a song, emphatic does not stay on the display. I have to push in the volume knob, and it comes back up.

emphatic has to disappear for you to see anything coming from the player application. This has to do with the way Hijack allows user apps to use the display. Nothing I can do about it, sorry. The only other option is to go back to the way it used to work, where you couldn't see the volume bar at all. emphatic also hides itself when you go into the player's menu via the front panel bottom button, and that's also the only way I can show the player's menu. emphatic can't really tell what's going on with the player's menus, it just knows that you pushed a button.

Thanks for the info. Maybe, the next version of hijack will allow this. Also, do you know of a way to edit an lrc file once it is embedded into the mp3. Say for instance the lyrics are incorrect, is there a quick way to edit this?

Thanks for the info. Maybe, the next version of hijack will allow this. Also, do you know of a way to edit an lrc file once it is embedded into the mp3. Say for instance the lyrics are incorrect, is there a quick way to edit this?

Nope. Right now you gotta edit the LRC and re-tag the MP3.

I feel like we are instant messaging. Will it be possible in future releases of emphatic for it to remember the settings...ie (font, scroll etc...)?

Thanks again!!!

I feel like we are instant messaging.

We almost are. The BBS sends me an email when anyone replies to one of my posts, and since I'm at work, answering emphatic-related questions is more entertaining than answering work-related questions. So there ya go.

emphatic doesn't have anywhere to "remember" the setttings, but if you will take a look at the README file under "command line arguments" you can have it start up with the same settings each time. You would add those command line arguments to the EXEC_ONCE line in your config.ini

For instance, if you wanted to start in vertical mode with the medium font, your EXEC_ONCE line would look something like this:

;@EXEC_ONCE /usr/local/bin/emphatic -m 2 -f 1

-m 2 means "mode 2" which is vertical. -f 1 means "font 1" which is the medium font. You can also specify what row the horizontal scroller scrolls on, and some other less-important things.

But right now, there's no way for ANY user application to "remember" things.

I am going to post my config.ini again:

[Startup]
ReserveCache=48
[tuner]
region=us
[controls]
stalk_side=none
[Options]
Name=empegcar
[User Info]
Email=djdrock@blah.com
Phone=317-123-2345
Name=David Eaton
[Network]
Gateway=0.0.0.0
Netmask=255.255.255.0
IPAddress=192.168.1.2
DHCP=0
[sense]
muteaction=0
mute=-1
[power]
off_timeout=60000
[display]
visual_names=1
caching=1
[synchronise]
seq_num=83
[wendy]
flag_amount=0
[custom]
wendy=
[searches]
amount=0
[VisualFavourites_AM]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_AUX]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_DSP]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_FM]
count=0
[hush]
hushpercent=20
[volumecap]
enabled=0
[kenwood]
disabled=0
[ramp]
disabled=0
[menu]
quit=0
sort_playlist=1
[aux]
source=
title=
artist=
[output]
notify=1
[hijack]
;@EXEC_ONCE /usr/local/bin/emphatic
;@EXEC_ONCE /usr/local/bin/emphatic -m 2 -f 1

Although hijack is working, it still is not coming on at startup, and adding the last line to set the default options is not working. When I upload a song to the player, after synchronization, when I go into hijack, the emphatic option is never there until I reboot the player. Then, it always shows up. Do you see anything odd in my config.ini?

Dude, get rid of the first EXEC_ONCE entry.

That did the trick. Again, I appreciate your help!