Thursday, September 08, 2011

N950 module playback packages

And if you would like to test module playback on your N950 or N9, then you can install the armel packages available at http://ftp.tal.org/pub/maemo/testing/harmattan/

You need these two:
Just install with dpkg and that should be it.

(Let me know if it works, especially if you have a N9 with the rumored to have more up-to-date firmware than the one on the N950. Thanks.)

N950 module playback

Preliminary testing of adding module playback support to the N950 (and N9). Getting playback didn't require as much work as for the N900, tracker already marks modules as audio and the media player picks them up, but can't play them as it's missing the required gstreamer element (modplug).

A proper tracker miner would be a plus, as right now all modules get dumped in the "Unknown artist"/"Unknown album" categories and the filename is used as the title. Not nice.

Anyway, my first talkie: