Really quick, I downloaded bertrandom's Brown Eyed Girl, and couldn't get that to show up. So there is something some of us are doing wrong.

Emphatic does show up on the hijack menu, I did chmod 755 the binary. In fact it still says ver 1.00 in 1.01...

So I have it running. I installed it in /drive0/var/emphatic.

Well it did say 1.00 in 1.01 for about 3 minutes, which must have been the 3 minutes you downloaded 1.01 during..

I don't know what you could be doing wrong... Not passing any arguments in are you? You get the menu to pop up, right? Have you tried to switch fonts or display modes?


Edit: No, I'm an idiot, it still says 1.00. Fixing... Fixed.

I put the emphatic file in /usr and I added the line ;@EXEC /usr/emphatic to the end of my config.ini show emphatic show up in the hijack menu or do I need to do something else.

And thanks to both of you guys for making this.

Once you reboot I think that should work. If not, take a look at your serial console output and look for any error messages...

If you didn't use my script, then you also need to make the file executable with:


chmod 755 /usr/emphatic

from a shell prompt

I'm not passing any arguments in my call in the config.ini. I have tried it both with and without the ;@DC before ;@EXEC /drive0/var/emphatic/emphatic. I get the menu to pop up now with v1.01, It shows me switching fonts, and display modes. But no text. Hijack v309 installed. Anything else special I should have installed?

I added the line ;@EXEC /usr/emphatic to the end of my config.ini

Point of precision: It needs to specifically be in the [hijack] section of config.ini, not at the end of the config.ini (unless the hijack section happens to be at the end of your config.ini).

Nah, that should work... Argh. Are you able to run the program from a shell prompt so I can see any kind of error messages that come out on the console?

Edit: Just thought of something. emphatic depends on /proc/empeg_notify being available. Can you check your config.ini to see if the following is in it:

[output]
notify=1

Anything else special I should have installed?

You did replace the tune on the player with the lyric-tagged version, right? And you don't have more than one copy of the same tune on the player (one lyric-tagged and one not)?

And doesn't notify=1 have to be on in order for this to work?

I couldn't get the script to work so I just uploaded the file. I tried setting the permissions to 755 but it still doesn't show up.


here's the log I don't see anything that sounds like it would be related to this but I am an expert by no means.


empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 (hugo@empeg.com)
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v312 (root@ibbm) (gcc version 2.95
.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Tue Feb 4 20:03:25 EST 2003
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revisi
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 10101230)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14996k/16M available (992k code, 20k reserved, 372k data, 4k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
Page cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea Universit
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)
IrCOMM protocol (Dag Brattli)
Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
Signature is 20706d65 'emp '
Found custom animation at offset 0x99b78
empeg display initi
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0005180).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, 19077MB w/1874kB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman (erik@vt.edu)

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:22:04:c
e
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...hange_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initempeg init 0.8
I see this is a developer image!
Mounting proc
Mounting first music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19
Mounting second music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 6
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To CompìStartin
g player

khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta13 2002/07/24.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 24 2002
Vcb: 0x4086d000

emphatic prints a bunch of stuff on startup so I don't think it's being executed. Check the post by "Evil Tony" above.. Make sure the @EXEC line is in the [hijack] section of config.ini. Also, your Hijack kernel needs to be recent, the ;@EXEC stuff is new.

This stuff is all great material for an emphatic FAQ.

did you rw before you chmod and ro after?

That was it. I didn't know there was a hijack section oops.

Thanks

Now I need to figure out how to add the lyrics.

Yup that was it... I didn't have the notify=1 in my config.ini. Works great now! Good work!

Cool, I bet that's the problem with bertrandom too. I'll have to include this stuff in the README. Thanks for your patience in debugging my documentation, guys.

Sleepy time for me tonight... Hope everyone has better luck installing now that these common problems have been identified.

as im too lazy to repost, see here (url should work), yn0t_

Wow.. talk about support. Yup, it was the notify=1 for me, awesome program. Now I've just got to sit here and tag lyrics all day, we really need to get that lyrics database up and running. By the way, is there any way to get rid of the | character before the lyrics in that sample mp3 I linked to when viewing it in vertical mode?

COOL!, im still working on the lyrics site, so dont toss your lyrics keep them so we can get them posted. I would expect it to be almost done in a week or so, ive been kinda busy with real job.

Hmm.. the | character is actually a feature. I wanted to be able to tell when two or more lines on the screen were part of a single line of lyrics. So when that happens, there's a solid bar connecting them. I can add an option to turn that off for the next release.

Actually that URL isn't working for me...

But I think I figured out what post you were trying to link to... You're not seeing lyrics? Can you make sure that

[output]
notify=1

is in your config.ini? I neglected to mention that.

Glad to hear you're still on top of the lyrics site thing. If possible, make sure there's a mechanism to update or suggest corrections to existing lyrics. Also, in the database, make sure there's a field for "version" or "remix" or something so that a song with a given artist and title can have multiple versions, since there are extended mixes, etc. The lyrics might be the same, but the time tags would be different.

Until that's up, we can all build up our own personal library of tags... But creating them would be a lot easier with a nice WinAMP plugin. Anyone have experience writing one of those?

Because emphatic seems to run well in the background, even when there are no lyrics, I got to thinking that it might be neat to make it more than just a lyrics scroller. I have access to everything in /proc/empeg_notify, which includes the artist, title, genre, track number, etc. Furthermore, since I'm already reading from the ID3v2 tag, I could probably pull out the contents of *ANY* ID3v2 field you have in your MP3's, regardless of whether the player supports it.

I could then theoretically display these in some kind of configurable format, in kind of a special info mode. One of the sections of this could be the lyrics in a horizontal scroll area, but others could be the artist, title, track time, etc. This would almost be like a "skin" which would replace the Track Info screen.

Would anyone find this useful? Is anyone using non-standard ID3v2 fields and would want to view them? This kind of feature would take some time, and I'm not promising anything, but it's something I think might be kinda cool. I've seen posts in the past requesting user-definable fields on the Track Info screen, this might be the next best thing.

Thoughts?

Hmm... I was just about to register lrcdb.com (maybe a few others as well) and get started on coding a site. Since you're already working on a site, I'll be happy to still register the domain and host it, and help out with any coding as well.

What a great idea!

I've got quite a few tracks with stuff in the comments field, just for completeness rather than for any particular use, but it would be cool if we could display this information.

Bryan.

I've always wanted direct access to the id3v2 comments field tag to work around the 255 character limitation when that tag is importeted into the database. There was a thread about it some time ago. I store AMG review in the comment tag which can be quite long, so scrolling vertically through the file by rotating the knob (AboutBox like) would do the trick for me.

Great job you've done on the lyrics viewer btw. Simply awesome.
I think I might have found a bug: Going into standby (key sense) and back, while emphatic is active seems to confuse it a bit. Lyric scrolling is stopped, and the knob is bound to Popup0 again. The attempt to access the hijack menu results in the lyrics showing up, altough the menu seems to be active in the background allowing me to start breakout with a lyric-postered background. Quite cool, actually. Could be a feature.

....uh-oh, you asked for it...

Can you check for embedded cover-art, and then convert that to a 4bpp format and pass it to empan?

I think I might have found a bug: Going into standby (key sense) and back, while emphatic is active seems to confuse it a bit.
...
Quite cool, actually. Could be a feature.

Yeah, that's a feature of Hijack, nothing I can do about that. When mlord is freed up from making docking stations, I have a batch of Hijack improvements I would like to put into his queue, including fixing that particular problem, if possible (it may be a limitation we can't work around, who knows.) There are others that would make emphatic a little more elegant when running in the background, including the ability for user apps to bring up the PopUp0 menu on behalf of the user, and the ability for them to run completely in the background, perhaps updating a section of the display from the background.

For right now, the obvious workaround is to not go into standby, or if you do, first select "close" from the emphatic menu. Then you can go into standby and select it from the Hijack menu when you want it back

Interesting idea with scrolling long comment fields. I currently pass the knob left/right to the player so you can change volume, but I suppose I could let you select a menu option to scroll a particular field... Might take a little more work though.

I did think about doing covert art. Wouldn't be too hard. I wouldn't use empan because empan uses the old GD library. I'd just pan the bitmap around myself inside emphatic using vfdlib. There's an example of this built into emphatic, but it's a bit of an easter egg (not hard to find if you read the source code.)

heh, yeah but to really understand the joke you gotta read the post under the one you found. meh, its a dumb joke anyway.

Oh, the part about your VFD being broken... Sorry 'bout that. Maybe in a future version of emphatic I'll add support for broken VFD's.

heh, yeah. code in a universal fix, so even when im not viewing lyrics it affects it.

thanks