#260441 - 22/07/2005 15:00
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: peter]
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Version 3 of the player uses utf-8 internally, but the used fonts lack japanese glyphs.
FITNR (for the larger font; it's not really possible to display Japanese in the smaller font).
Cool! Don't forget to claim the $350 reward!
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#260442 - 22/07/2005 15:08
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: Roger]
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Registered: 14/11/2000
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...they indicate when the track ended earlier than it indicated it would; often, this is the result of a corrupt MP3...
I always suspected that -- more often -- this is the result of whichever version of emplode had a rounding error when calculating the length of the track
Now it makes sence to me. My length tags are calculated by mp3tofid using madlib or libogg, and can be slightly different from the ones emplode would have calculated.
Pim
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#260443 - 22/07/2005 15:38
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: pim]
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Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
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Cool! Don't forget to claim the $350 reward!
There's no need for a $350 reward. If anyone desparately wanted to rid themselves of $350 after downloading the next release, I'm sure either these folks or maybe this lot could find something useful to do with it.
Peter
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#260444 - 22/07/2005 15:46
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: schofiel]
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Registered: 30/06/1999
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Loc: Switzerland
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While you are fixing bugs. Here are my comment, previously reported in another thread:
In tuner mode there is a very short pop (nearly not audibly) each time the software tries to search for a stronger signal. This happens about twice per second. It’s the same as it was in 2.0 final.
Manually setting a tuner frequency using the remote control crashes the player. Hijack displays a sigseg error and the player reboots (same behaviour as in alpha8) This somehow only seems to occur in the car and not in the docking station?!?
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#260445 - 22/07/2005 15:56
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: peter]
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Registered: 24/12/2001
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Cool! Don't forget to claim the $350 reward!
There's no need for a $350 reward. If anyone desparately wanted to rid themselves of $350 after downloading the next release, I'm sure either these folks or maybe this lot could find something useful to do with it.
Both good causes but how about for the beer/curry fund?
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#260446 - 22/07/2005 16:10
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: tman]
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Both good causes but how about for the beer/curry fund?
It should go to charity. In particular, people shouldn't attempt to put it behind the bar at the Wrestlers: our new office is on the other side of town and we don't even go to the Wrestlers any more.
Peter
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#260447 - 22/07/2005 16:26
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: peter]
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Registered: 24/12/2001
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It should go to charity.
Okie dokie 
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#260448 - 22/07/2005 16:46
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: pgrzelak]
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Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
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WITNR?
This coming Monday, 25th July. Or Tuesday morning UK time at the latest. Everyone is urged to download alpha 10 if they haven't already done so, and test it over this weekend, reporting bugs in this thread by Sunday evening US time if possible.
Peter
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#260449 - 22/07/2005 17:02
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: peter]
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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!!! Wow! I was just asking, not expecting anything in the near future...
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#260450 - 22/07/2005 17:26
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: peter]
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Registered: 13/09/1999
Posts: 2401
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Let me just reiterate: guys@empeg are absolutely amazing!
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#260451 - 22/07/2005 17:33
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: peter]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 05/01/2001
Posts: 4903
Loc: Detroit, MI USA
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This is so awesome of you guys!
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#260452 - 22/07/2005 18:18
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: schofiel]
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Registered: 30/06/1999
Posts: 179
Loc: Switzerland
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Another bug: beeps do not work in alpha10
Many thanks for releasing a new player version and we all hope to see a new karma with tuner soon.
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#260453 - 22/07/2005 18:54
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: JBjorgen]
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Registered: 12/02/2002
Posts: 2298
Loc: Berkeley, California
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FITNR
That's an amazing acronym to read. Peter is also my hero. I havn't looked forward to the next release in years.
Matthew
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#260454 - 22/07/2005 19:44
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: schofiel]
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Registered: 11/01/2002
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Loc: Qc, Canada
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Here are my observations. As nobody else seems to have problems with that, maybe it's just me...
Riocar V3.0 alpha 10 Dev, 32Meg memory, Hijack 435, ReserveCache=50
Playlist is not remembered between reboots
(Every time unplug/plug the empeg, it starts with an empty playlist)
Bookmarks are not saved.
(When I Set, then Goto bookmark, it comes to an empty playlist.)
Menu scrolling is sluggish during caching
(Just after changing songs with skip, more of an annoyance than a bug...)
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#260455 - 22/07/2005 20:13
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: elperepat]
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
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Playlist is not remembered between reboots
(Every time unplug/plug the empeg, it starts with an empty playlist)
Bookmarks are not saved.
(When I Set, then Goto bookmark, it comes to an empty playlist.)
Assuming you have a very large playlist, that's a known problem fixed by this hack.
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#260456 - 22/07/2005 21:19
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: wfaulk]
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Registered: 11/01/2002
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Loc: Qc, Canada
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Not having the empeg near me, if I remember correctly, I have about 6000 items in down-down-down playlist, and no more than 20-30% of the fids are in more than one playlist.
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#260457 - 22/07/2005 21:52
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: elperepat]
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Registered: 05/01/2001
Posts: 4903
Loc: Detroit, MI USA
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That empeg_set_max_fid_v7 hack is a great one though. Give it a shot.
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#260458 - 23/07/2005 02:09
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: schofiel]
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Registered: 23/09/2003
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The 'scan frequency' (press and hold the left or right button) feature isn't working in the tuner for me.
Other than that, all systems go so far. Seeking and track-switching for FLACs seems to be much improved, and I can finally seek cleanly in Ogg Vorbis files.
Still not as fast as MP3, but acceptable.
I also had some problems with the post-upload stages (rebuild, reboot, etc.) of jEmplode, but not much worse than usual, so that might just be a coincidence: only about one sync in five is error free for me in jEmplode, on either of my empeg units.
Single HDD, Hijack v435 with ext3 filesystem.
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#260459 - 23/07/2005 12:59
Hijack v436 -- removed v3a hacks, modifed i2c fan control logic
[Re: peter]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
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Great news, Peter!
I wonder if the functionality of empeg_set_max_fid_v7 should go in.. or not. I suppose it's easy enough to run once after upgrading.
Meanwhile, Hijack v436 is out. The major changes are:
(1) Slightly cleaned up i2c code (internal protocol for DSP and fan controller).
(2) Fan control logic now continues with setup regardless of errors, and also prints out (serial console) current temperature reading at startup.
(2) Removed "lavatory floor" visual recovery code, since that visual is no longer present as of v3a10.
(3) Removed "previous visual" workaround code for the v3alphas, since this function is now present again as of v3a10 (works great!).
Cheers
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#260460 - 23/07/2005 13:07
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: peter]
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old hand
Registered: 01/10/2002
Posts: 1039
Loc: Fullerton, Calif.
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Version 3 of the player uses utf-8 internally, but the used fonts lack japanese glyphs.
FITNR (for the larger font; it's not really possible to display Japanese in the smaller font).
Will there be traditional Chinese font in the next release?
Edited by larry818 (23/07/2005 13:07)
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#260461 - 23/07/2005 14:28
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: alex25]
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Registered: 30/06/1999
Posts: 179
Loc: Switzerland
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Here is more input from my trip today (about two hours)
The player was in tuner mode all the time. I had four spontaneous reboots during that time. Hijack displayed a message sigkill or something like that. Maybe it is the same problem as mentioned earlier: Selecting a frequency by the remote control let my empeg reboot.
Switching between alternative frequency (AF) works pretty good! Sometimes the software changes to an alternative frequency every 5 seconds. But because the interruption is that short this is no problem at all. It never switched to a wrong station during my trip.
But I think there is at least one AF bug. Every time the player changes to another AF the RDS information is deleted (RDS text, RDS station id, PTY). In my opinion this should stay what it is, because it should be the same for all AF of a radio station.
I have not tested the traffic announcement (TA). I think earlier versions of the software had a problem that the AF is not working if in mp3 mode. I you can make sure that the AF works the same in mp3 mode as in tuner mode than everything should be ok.
Hardware: MK2, 64MB RAM, original tuner, 2 drives
Software:V3alpha10, Hijack 435, no other software running
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#260462 - 23/07/2005 18:41
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: peter]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
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reporting bugs in this thread by Sunday evening
Low priority, not really a bug: Entering the Visuals and Shuffle menus doesn't show the currently selected mode. /me runs.
You guys are great! Thanks for supporting us.
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#260463 - 24/07/2005 12:19
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: elperepat]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3584
Loc: Columbus, OH
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Menu scrolling is sluggish during caching
(Just after changing songs with skip, more of an annoyance than a bug...)
It may just be my player, but on my 32mb MK2a (stacked method), all visuals and scrolling text are very sluggish while caching. Playlist of maybe 300 fids. Let me know if I can get you any debug info.
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#260464 - 25/07/2005 06:19
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: JBjorgen]
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Registered: 12/01/2002
Posts: 2009
Loc: Brisbane, Australia
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Menu scrolling is sluggish during caching
(Just after changing songs with skip, more of an annoyance than a bug...)
It may just be my player, but on my 32mb MK2a (stacked method), all visuals and scrolling text are very sluggish while caching. Playlist of maybe 300 fids. Let me know if I can get you any debug info.
Menus sluggish is "normal" (in the sense that everyone has it I think). The play software temporarily froze everything while caching. Mark did some kernel magic in Hijack to make the caching part yield so the rest of the system was more (relatively) responsive.
For my report:
When using the search feature I can't "queue" up letters. If I enter letter while it's narrowing down the list of matches it seems to get lost. So I have to keep looking at it to see when it's ready for the next letter. Appeared in v3 it would seem but I couldn't say when.
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#260465 - 25/07/2005 10:52
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: Shonky]
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Registered: 19/01/2002
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Loc: Columbus, OH
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Menus sluggish is "normal" (in the sense that everyone has it I think). The play software temporarily froze everything while caching....
Yeah, but this is different...my visuals and scrolling info slow down to like 1 or 2fps until (I assume) it's done caching, then everything runs at normal speeds. It may not be the caching though, many times it goes through an entire song like that.
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#260466 - 25/07/2005 11:12
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: JBjorgen]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
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That sounds like the caching issue.
Without Hijack, the player basically locks up until it finishes the read-ahead. With Hijack, it is very slow as described, but at least it does respond to button presses.
Cheers
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#260467 - 25/07/2005 14:49
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: larry818]
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Registered: 13/07/2000
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Loc: Cambridge, England
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Will there be traditional Chinese font in the next release?
No. We looked a while ago, but couldn't find a free one in a small enough size. (Some Chinese characters will work in the Japanese Edition -- the ones which happen to be shared with JIS X0208 -- but many common Chinese characters will be absent.)
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beeps do not work in alpha10
FITNR.
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When using the search feature I can't "queue" up letters.
FITNR.
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Impossible to disable AF.
Believed FITNR.
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That's an amazing acronym to read.
I can assure you that writing it is even more amazing than reading it...
Peter
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#260468 - 25/07/2005 15:20
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: peter]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
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That's an amazing acronym to read.
I can assure you that writing it is even more amazing than reading it...
Good, because I was getting a bad feeling about what it meant, honestly.
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#260469 - 25/07/2005 17:30
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: peter]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
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v3a10 & v3a11: The Anna-VU visual (and possibly all others, as well) is "muted" when in FM tuner mode. It rarely, if ever, bounces beyond 1/3 scale. Earlier v2 releases had much more animated visuals for tuner mode.
I wonder if this can be fixed in Hijack, by adjusting the gain on the sampling input that drives the visuals ?
Cheers
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#260470 - 30/07/2005 13:05
Re: Bugs in V3 A10
[Re: peter]
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old hand
Registered: 01/10/2002
Posts: 1039
Loc: Fullerton, Calif.
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No. We looked a while ago, but couldn't find a free one in a small enough size. (Some Chinese characters will work in the Japanese Edition -- the ones which happen to be shared with JIS X0208 -- but many common Chinese characters will be absent.)
If you give me the spec, I may be able to find a font. At least I'd be willing to do all the legwork.
Thanks,
Larry
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