Comments on: “Yet Another Zaurus Media Player”… not dead yet: “Quasar Media Player”

By: Grad

Grad — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:01:14 +0000

Exciting! I hope you’re having a fun time making this app; I hope to try it out soon.

By: Andre

Andre — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:37:38 +0000

Okay, I’ve uploaded the new version 0.85 (Beta 2). This should fix the Qtopia crashes. The culprit was a QCop call to immediately register Quasar as remote control master. I’ve removed this call now. This means, if you mark “Register as remote control master” in the configuration dialog, you’ll have to restart Qtopia for the change to take effect.

By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:46:45 +0000

Joey, thanks for the info. I was able to reproduce the problem on a fresh Cacko installation. I’m still wondering why the problem doesn’t crop up on my loaded Cacko setup. It seems to be a library related problem. I’ll look into the issue.

By: Joey

Joey — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:52:54 +0000

I’m having the same problem as Expertin (using Cacko on C1000). Whenever I try to start Quasar, Qtopia quits and then restarts (although sometimes it just hangs). THis is true for both releases (from last week and today). I tried a manual install but ipkg install returns zcat error and complains about corrupt package. INstalling with package manager goes fine but am not able to actually start the program.

By: Dale

Dale — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:19:47 +0000

It works, no problems. I’m not noticing the random/looping problem today, it might have just been that first time I tried it.
Just to note you didn’t change the version number in the About. I wasn’t sure I had installed the correct version at first and checked the Version number but it was still 0.8.

By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:27:33 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. You say, Qtopia restarts for inifinity. Does that mean, it will not start playback of a file and just continues to switch to the next file over and over again? Or does this really happen on startup of Quasar? When you started it for the first time did it show a message box, saying that no valid settings were found and it will start with the default settings? If so, did you see the player’s UI after that or did it simply crash?

I just saw the thread over at Zaurusian.net: http://cafe3.ktdom.com/zaurus/bbs/view.php?id=free&no=9917

My Korean is non-existent and I can’t make any sense of the automatic translation offered by Google here.

ExPERTiN, perhaps you can help me here? Same trouble with my WM8750Mixer, I simply don’t understand the feedback in the Korean forums and I can’t register and ask directly in English, because the registration form won’t let me.

Anyway, I’m going to release the sources today with the official release.
You can also try to fix the problem yourself. I’ll try too, but I can’t promise anything, since I need your detailed reports.

By: ExPERTiN

ExPERTiN — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:21:47 +0000

Uhh.. I Can’t start Quasar on My C1000.
I’m using Cacko-based Korean-customized ROM.

When I start player, Qtopia restarts for infinity.
And other korean users say the same problem. They use Cacko-based, Original Sharprom-based, ETC…

And, Just One user could use the player. He uses Zaurus 760.

How can we use the player on Qtopia?

By: Andre

Andre — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:37:26 +0000

I’ve uploaded the new version. Embedded image files in ID3 Tags are now supported.

By: Andre

Andre — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:26:48 +0000

Thanks a lot for the feedback! Glad you like it.
As for the volume control, this is a known problem on pdaXrom. I had to remove the volume control applet from the taskbar so Quasar could access /dev/mixer device. I guess XMMS can adjust the volume anyway, so perhaps I need to look into the issue again.
I’m going to add the ID3 image extraction feature now.

By: Dale

Dale — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:37:09 +0000

Ohh forgot to mention that in a playlist of 51 songs the random with repeat feature wasn’t very random, it played the same 5 songs until I selected another song, I’ll further test this.