Got it, got it running, and man is it slow.

It's loading my playlist of about 3500 songs into it through Serial and it is taking about 1 second per song. At this rate, I am looking at a better part of an hour to get the playlists into the Palm. The interface is nice but will it have to do a complete sync every time? Can I output the csv file from emplode and HotSync it into the Palm to speed this up?

Greg

Greg,
The reason it's so slow is because there is no command provided by Empeg that sends a list of all songs through the serial connection. The minute there is such a thing, I will implement it.
The way it works, now, the Palm app, starts at the beginning of the play list, pauses the song, then moves to the next one. This process is slow, plus, if the Palm app moves too fast through the list, it gets desynchronized with the RioCar unit. I had to put a reasonable timeout period of a second for that reason.
The HotSync conduit, however, is much more faster, because it simply reads from a file (c:\playlist.txt), and sends it directly to Palm. May be that's what you should use for now, since you have so many songs.
Let me know about any other issues you might have.

There have been several features which were added to both the Palm app as well as the HotSync conduit. Few bugs were taken care of as well.
Please visit http://www.psibits.com/PalmEmpeg regularly to get the latest version.

Have you tried sending the database or playlists files in /empeg/var over irda using sz? They're binary, but you should be able to decode them, right?

_~= Dearing =~_
"WAY too happy about having #99."

I already considered that. The problem however is that the Empeg unit is under the seat, and the Palm device is by the driver's seat. I wanted some fast way to get the data through the serial cable which I'm already using.
Right now, I have two ways of doing it. One through the serial but it's slow since the Palm app starts at the begining of the playlist and keep moving. The problem is that it's slow (one song per second). The second method, which is very fast (50 songs per second), requires connecting Palm to a PC to HotSync through conduit which I don't want to do.

Thanks for suggestion.

If you started the player with the -s option and modified your init so that it called the player in the background, you should be able to keep your serial shell through the cable. Then you could sz or simply cat the database file (can you cat a binary file and read it correctly?). I've not tried starting the player in the background yet, would this work?
Just throwing ideas out there...
Jason

_~= Dearing =~_
"WAY too happy about having #99."

Yes you can cat binary files, although, it's more flexible to open the file and read data through a C program.
I'll have to look into it some more.
Thanks.

Does this help you in any way?

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Edwin de Vaan

Yes, thank you :)

You're welcome!

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Edwin de Vaan