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Rock out

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Yeah! Tonight and tomorrow is the East Riding Rock Festival in Hull. It started at half four, but at half four I was just leaving my house ready to go and collect Amy. We got there for somewhere around 8ish, which was fine.

I have a green wristband and a curious photo of the toilet with a worrying warning sign stuck to it.

Tomorrow I’ll take my camera and get some better shots.

The place was quite cool. Imagine a town hall full of leather clad, t-shirt wearing people waving their arms in an approximation of rhythm. It was wonderfully Emo and kiddie free, most people being over 20.

Asbestos, in my toilet?

Asbestos, in my toilet?

Ogg Vorbis and Nokia N800 with Canola – Fixed!

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Hurrah! I remembered to check back on the thread I commented in last week. There’s been an update and a fix posted. I’ll copy it here too for future reference.

If you have Canola and the OGG packages installed, you might notice that OGG files don’t “stop” and the next track never starts playing – unless the “next track” button is pressed. This is to do with MPlayer not handling OGG files correctly. To fix it fire up a terminal and edit the following file

/home/user/.atabake/config

(you might need to apt-get install nano first unless there’s a text editor on your N800 already that can load hidden files)

Then look in the file for this part

[media]
mp3 = oms
mp4 = oms
…

after the last line of that section, add a line that says

ogg = oms

then just save the file and relaunch Canola. It should then work correctly :)

Canola OGG problems

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Hmm, seems there’s a slight issue with Canola playing OGGs properly. It’ll play them fine, but doesn’t seem to know when to move onto the next track. I’ve submitted a bug report to the end of the ITT thread from yesterday, so hopefully they’ll have something to go on.

Unfortunately this means I’m stuck listening to CDs in my car now.

Nokia N800, Canola and OGG Vorbis

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I managed to stop my Nokia N800 from correctly booting the other day. I had a bit of a “moment” in the terminal and typed “apt-get upgrade” which seemed to go OK – until I rebooted. Then my N800 got stuck in a loop and refused to boot up.

Fortunately I was able to re-run the firmware flasher and re-install OS2008 (getting an upgrade in the process). After that it booted normally and I could begin the slightly irritating task of putting everything back on.

To play music I use Canola which is a really nice media player that, with some minor tweaking will play OGG Vorbis music as well as MP3. Since it’s a bit complicated making OGG Vorbis work at the moment I have included the instructions below:

This comes from the ITT forum post linked to above, courtesy of etrunko:

1) Install ogg-support from application manager (instructions in http://ogg.garage.maemo.org)

2) Install libvorbis0a package manually either using application manager in red pill mode or typing the following command in xterm *AS ROOT*

# apt-get install libvorbis0a

3) Finally, download and install the lightmediascanner0-ogg package using either application manager in red pill mode or typing the following command in xterm *AS ROOT*

# dpkg -i path/to/lightmediascanner/package