Get it at the usual place.

Changes for v2.00:

• The Windows batch file was broken in v2.00, and has been fixed, and hopefully fixed correctly. If you had install problems, try again with this one.
• Install scripts now support an "upgrade" where the existing XML file is kept intact, and config.ini is left unchanged.
• The postinstall script has been fixed to add some important config.ini changes, without which emphatic won't function properly.
• Thanks to some improvements to the Hijack user APIs, emphatic now provides the option to bring itself to the foreground on player startup. This requires Hijack v408 or later. The new behavior is now the default, so if you wish to turn it off, set the auto_foreground setting in the XML file to "false."
• New track attribute, "bpm", which is the beats per minute as calculated by the player. Shown in the Track Details screen in the default XML file
  

Enjoy this release, and please post here if you have any problems, or any general comments about this release. Please keep feature requests in the other relevant thread in this forum.

Hi,

I just installed emphatic,
but I'm having some problems.

It seems to work, but the display is ... mixed with the original output.
Not sure what went wrong at which point,
but it's not usable this way

I tried to grab a screenshot via hijack+jemplode,
but the screenshot looks normal...

The quick fix is to go into the player menu (accessible from the emphatic menu as well) and select "Info: Off." If this is happening for you every time, then I'll need you to tell me what player version you're running, and I'll have to investigate to see why it's not able to turn the built-in info display off for you.

Quote:
The quick fix is to go into the player menu (accessible from the emphatic menu as well) and select "Info: Off."

If you still get still get that "ghost Info" after selecting "off" , try holding down the "down" button.

Doing so will produce or undo the "ghost info" regardless if Info is turned off on the player's menu.

I am having problems installing version 2.01. Here is the output of the command prompt. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am unable to create the /usr/local/bin directory myself because I get the same RC=1 error.

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Installing emphatic...
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Please enter the IP address of your empeg:
> 192.168.1.115


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Please enter the directory to install emphatic to:
> /usr/local/bin


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Perform an upgrade install of emphatic? Selecting "no" here will allow you
to change advanced config options, and will install the default emphatic XML
configuration file. If you select "yes", we will perform an upgrade install,
and your existing configuration will be unchanged. If you upgrade, you will
have to add new config options to the XML by hand.
Upgrade an existing emphatic installation in /usr/local/bin (y/n)?
n

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Would you like me to modify your config.ini to launch emphatic
when your empeg boots?
If you choose 'n' here, you will have to launch emphatic manually,
or using a 3rd party launcher
Add ;@EXEC_ONCE entry to config.ini? (y/n)?
y


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emphatic allows you to rate your songs to provide a weighted shuffle mode
that favors your highest-rated songs. Would you like to add this shuffle
mode to your config.ini? If you have already done this before, select
'n' here. You can always add/modify this shuffle mode in config.ini later
if you know what you're doing.
Add "Favorites" shuffle mode to config.ini? (y/n)?
y


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For optimum performance, you may want to reserve some player memory for
running emphatic and other 3rd party applications. If you select 'y'
here, config.ini will be modified to reserve 10 cache blocks (about 300k).
If you select 'n', the ReserveCache entry in your config.ini will be left
as-is.
Reserve 10 cache blocks for 3rd party applications? (y/n)?
y


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Alright, pay attention. Song ratings in emphatic range from 1 to 10.
Prior to running emphatic, the player has all song ratings set at 0.
This means that songs you haven't rated yet aren't going to pop up in a
weighted shuffle mode until the very end. This is usually not
desirable behavior.

To fix this, the installation procedure can walk through your dynamic
data partition and initialize song ratings to 5, which will mean all
songs start off with an "average" rating, which you can raise or lower
to your liking.

I've tested this procedure extensively on my own empegs, under various
versions of player software v2 and v3. I have had no problems with this
procedure, but because it involves writing some data to the player's
dynamic data partition, I'm giving you the chance to bail out on this
part of the install. If you choose not to initialize your song ratings,
you will find that unrated songs rarely show up in a shuffle, which will
make doing song ratings difficult if you're in "Favorites" shuffle mode.

If you choose "Y" here, the install process will execute emphatic on
your empeg to initialize the song rating data. This may take some time,
possibly up to a minute or more, but probably more like 20-30 seconds.

If you're really worried, you may wish to break out of this script now
and back up your dynamic data partition.

Initialize song rating data on your empeg? (y/n)?
y


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Okay, I will now install emphatic to directory /usr/local/bin on 192.168.1.115
config.ini will be modified to launch emphatic on startup
config.ini will be modified to add "Favorites" shuffle mode
config.ini will be modified to reserve memory for 3rd party apps
song ratings on /dev/hda3 will be initialized to "5"

Do you wish to proceed? (y/n)?
y
Connected to 192.168.1.115.
220 Connected.
User (192.168.1.115:(none)):
230 Login okay.
ftp> quote site rw
200 Okay.
ftp> quote site exec mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
541 ERROR (rc=1)
ftp> cd /usr/local/bin
431 No such directory.
ftp> bin
200 Okay.
ftp> put emphatic
200 Okay.
150 Opening data connection.
226 Okay.
ftp: 371248 bytes sent in 0.69Seconds 540.39Kbytes/sec.
ftp> put postinstall.sh
200 Okay.
150 Opening data connection.
226 Okay.
ftp: 2971 bytes sent in 0.00Seconds 2971000.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp> ascii
200 Okay.
ftp> put emphatic.xml
200 Okay.
150 Opening data connection.
226 Okay.
ftp: 15405 bytes sent in 0.00Seconds 15405000.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp> put emphatic.dtd
200 Okay.
150 Opening data connection.
226 Okay.
ftp: 23043 bytes sent in 0.00Seconds 23043000.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp> quote site chmod 755 emphatic
200 Okay.
ftp> quote site chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/postinstall.sh
550 Failed.
ftp> quote site chmod 644 emphatic.dtd
200 Okay.
ftp> quote site chmod 644 emphatic.xml
200 Okay.
ftp> quote site exec /usr/local/bin/postinstall.sh /usr/local/bin 1 1 1 1
541 ERROR (rc=1)
ftp> quote site exec rm -f /usr/local/bin/postinstall.sh
541 ERROR (rc=1)
ftp> quote site ro
200 Okay.
ftp> quit
221 Happy Fishing.
emphatic installed successfully
Press any key to continue . . .

That's the problem...how do I fix it?

I have no idea. My evil twin will probably be in here shortly to help troubleshoot this.

Which evil twin is that???

Meanwhile, I notice that the commands without the exec seem to be working fine (chmod, etc.). Perhaps try the mkdir command without the exec prefix?

What version of Hijack are you running?

SITE EXEC wasn't always in the kftpd that's built into Hijack, but it's been there for quite a while. Unless you're running a very old Hijack release, I'm not sure what could cause this.

I am running Version 410 of Hijack. I ran mkdir along and this is what I get

ftp> mkdir
Directory name local
550 Failed.
ftp>

If you just run mkdir with the drives mounted read-only (without calling SITE RW first) then that's what you'll get. But I'm sending SITE RW so it's not a permissions problem. It's not really the mkdir I'm wondering about though, it's the EXEC of the postinstall script. I'm kinda stumped here...

You've probably got a file called local in /usr/
Run the following three commands in a FTP client and paste the results:

dir /
dir /usr
dir /usr/local

ftp> open 192.168.1.115
Connected to 192.168.1.115.
220 Connected.
User (192.168.1.115:(none)):
230 Login okay.
ftp> dir /
200 Okay.
150 Opening data connection.
drwx------ 2 0 0 12288 Apr 1 2003 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 4 0 0 1024 Apr 1 2003 empeg
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 1024 Jul 4 2000 dev
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 1024 Apr 13 1999 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 1024 Apr 13 1999 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 1024 Apr 1 2003 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 1024 Feb 8 2000 lib
drwxr-xr-x 4 0 0 1024 Apr 1 2003 usr
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 1024 Jul 6 1999 drive0
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 1024 Apr 1 2003 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 1024 Jun 2 1999 drive1
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 1024 Jun 3 1999 proc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 10 Apr 1 2003 swapfile -> ./dev/hda6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 371248 Nov 15 13:37 emphatic
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 2971 Nov 15 13:37 postinstall.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 15405 Nov 15 13:37 emphatic.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 23043 Nov 15 13:37 emphatic.dtd
total 866
226 Okay.
ftp: 1118 bytes received in 1.99Seconds 0.56Kbytes/sec.
ftp> dir /usr
200 Okay.
150 Opening data connection.
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 1024 Jun 1 1999 lib
drwxr-xr-x 3 0 0 1024 Jan 15 2002 share
total 4
226 Okay.
ftp: 133 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 133000.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp> dir /usr/local
200 Okay.
550 Failed.
ftp>

Can you run the script from hyperterminal and paste in all the debug output that comes out on the serial console?

Do you have the consumer version of the player software installed by any chance? If so then you'll need the developer version.

Yes...I do...I will reflash it now with the developer as well as reflash Hijack.

There's the problem. I'll update my docs to refer to the fact that the install won't work on the consumer player. I think it used to before.

That definiitely worked!!!

I think that it is pretty cool...How do I switch it off and on? Not all of my songs have lyrics, so I would like to go back to normal.

I loaded emphatic on my mk2 tonight. Played around with it just a bit. It's taking a little getting used to for the user interface. Hopefully I'll grow more accustomed to it with time. Script worked great for me with v. 3.0 alpha 7 and Hijack 410. Had some weird overlay problems when I first booted but when I restarted emphatic, everything sorted itself out.

Don't take this as heresy, but is there any way to get emphatic to run in the background doing nothing and only foreground itself (automatically) if a song with lyrics is played?

-Mike

Yes,
that (holding down) fixed it.

I'm running 2b13 with hijack 408.