It is live on the site. Check it out.

Ok now, who will be the first to download it and install it? ;)

Hugo

downloaded... Installing.


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HEY! What happened to my music??????


Jk...

Edited by synergy on 17/10/01 07:56 PM.

Installing ca. 25% done.

TommyE

I LOVE the wave on bootup... This looks really nice.

Thank you.

You beat me to it...

TommyE

Installed, may not have won but... :)


why must it pump so slowly.. dying...


cute it waved :)

I LOVE the wave on bootup... This looks really nice.

Thanks!

Note that I did a slightly more corporate-looking one for the Rio personality. You can switch between the two personalities with my Logo Editor (just tell it you've got a Rio player and send or delete the logo).

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Tony Fabris

Thank tfabris for the boot animations ;)

Hugo

The new visuals are cool too. I want my own bitmap on the panning visual....
Can this be done with the logouploader Tony??

TommyE

Also, Drakino's logo site has three new logos I put there that were derived from the animation frames I used to create the animated boot logos. I put them there in case anyone wanted their custom logos to blend with the animated logos.

For instance, my custom logo now has the new Tux sitting there next to my name and phone number. So when the animated logo is done, it seems as though the "empeg" name disappears and my name/phone appears, but Tux stays put.

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Tony Fabris

Now, HOW am I supposed to get my Ipsec VPN's working now?

Tony, You lied. This is worth the fuss we made.

I'm going to have to go ride about a bit.......

HEY! What happened to my music??????

The RIAA hacked into your empeg when you were looking at the new visuals, and deleted them, as they believe all MP3s are illegal...


Jk also... =)




Jazz
(List 112, Mk2 12 gig #40. Mk1 4 gig #30. Mk3 1.6 16v)

I want my own bitmap on the panning visual....
Can this be done with the logouploader Tony??

I was expecting this one.

Okay, here's the deal:

1) The animated boot logos reside in flash memory along with the custom logos and the kernel. They are RLE-compressed, but I'm not certain if the compression algorithm is finalized yet. I have some code to do the conversion, and I'm going to play with it as soon as I get a chance. I could add this functionality to the logo editor, however do not expect an onion-skinning cel animator out of the logo editor any time soon. You'll basically need to feed it a series of windows BMP files that you've created yourself and sequentially numbered.

2) The Image Pan visual is RLE-compressed and resides in a file on the empeg's hard disk. I also have some code for compressing this, but I think the version of the code I have is out of date. As I recall, Borislav also has access to this information because he was helping me look at it for a while and the empeg guys said I could show it to him. I think a couple of the other alpha team members might have access to this code as well.

I don't have any reliable code for sending a file to the empeg for the purpose of replacing that Image Pan visual. If you've got a serious urge to replace the image pan visual and you think you can get a reliable code set and UI for doing it, I'd be willing to integrate it into my Logo Edior. Any takers?

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Tony Fabris

Wow, looks like I'm late to the party. emplode installs fine on XP, and I'm upgrading the kernel as we speak.

-Trevor

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Mk 2, Green 12GB, Tuner 080000349

I'm getting "invalid file format" whenever I try to play a track. I am doing an emplode sync to see if that helps.

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Unit serial number 47 (was 330 in the queue)...

Well.. it IS Beta... I've had two lockups playing with it now....

Hugo/Rob,

Is there a format you want bug reports in, and do you have a system setup to handle it?

Or, to put it another way... What can we do to help?

I got this on one track too, all others I've tried works.
The track worked earlier.

Wow, I really like Emplode now.

TommyE

I'm getting "invalid file format" whenever I try to play a track. I am doing an emplode sync to see if that helps.

Oh yeah, we forgot to tell you, you have to re-encode all your music now.

(Actually, that never happened to any of us testers. How many different tracks have you tried? Do those tracks check out fine in MP3Trim?)

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Tony Fabris

I've had two lockups playing with it now....

Don't SAY that!

I haven't had it lock in weeks. It's been as solid as 1.03 for a long time.

As far as reporting bugs, first check to make sure they're not in the release notes (there are some existing known bugs), then post the details in the Bug Reports forum here and see if anyone else is getting them.

Normally, you'd just send it to the bugs mailing address as usual, but I'm thinking on a big new release like this we don't want to swamp the mailboxes with duplicate reports right off the bat.


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Tony Fabris

The player is now much better at refusing to play invalid tracks (which could previously have caused a hang or crash).

Is there anything unusual about your tracks? We've been using this engine for almost a year with the alpha team without any significant problems (if anything more tracks played than did before). Is there anything unusual about the encoder you use?

Rob

Love the new UI. Nice and slick. It's gonna take me a while to find all the new stuff in here. I left my remote in the truck, and can't run down to get it right now...

Minor issue: clock format is always 24hr, no matter what I choose from settings.

-Trevor

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Mk 2, Green 12GB, Tuner 080000349

Sorry...

But I've been having them...

In specific, it appears to be directly related to the visual switching.

Playing Blue man group Mp3's, switching between the visuals using the rio remote, and boom, the interface does NOT respond.

The clock stops incrementing (system clock), but the visual is still going, emplode can not talk to the player, power off and back on to fix.

The player DOES seem to come up a bit quicker now....



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I'm trying to get a reliable reproduction now.

Edited by synergy on 17/10/01 08:44 PM.

Argh, this never happened to me, I never saw it on the Alpha bug list. ARGH.

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Tony Fabris

Hmm. Haven't seen syncronise problems since beta8 or something.
Now they're here to haunt me.
The come all the time.

Both serial and on USB.

TommyE

I'm getting "invalid file format" whenever I try to play a track. I am doing an emplode sync to see if that helps.

Ah, that should help. We all forgot to mention that since it has been true since alpha1 :-)

You need to use emplode to add a Codec tag to all your files so it knows what format they're in. Some old versions (probably pre-1.0 but I haven't checked) of emplode didn't put them in.


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Mike Crowe
I may not be speaking on behalf of empeg above :-)

Yeah... the new visuals are amazing. It's a great leap up from the first set, which were pretty kick ass in and of themselves. Great work guys. Off to play!! It feels like i just got a new empeg!

update: Wow, i can really see the screen burn in now with the scrolling image visual. Never noticed it before.


|| loren.cox ||

It was every track I tried. I tried about half a dozen tracks.

Doing a sync and letting emplode fix some metadata fixed it, I think...

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Unit serial number 47 (was 330 in the queue)...

I'm getting something similar. When I play tracks, I get Invalid Track Format quite a lot.
When I run emplode, it tells me it's going to fix things. It does this for a little while, but I get a lot of warnings, like " was missing metadata", then "Extracting frame info for failed - defaulting, Unsupported/Invalid MP3 format. (error 0xc0040012).
If I try to sync, I get Sync failed... Wrong session cookie (error 0x80040059). All I can do is quit :-(

Apart from that everythings great! Love the new visuals! :-)

A lot of my MP3s are VBR encoded with Xing Audio Catalyst, is this a problem?

Phil.

It feels like i just got a new empeg!

I second that emotion...though my "old" empeg never locked up before

Seriously, folks...2.0 looks very promising. Thanks for all the hard work.

- Chris
32GB MK2 090000664 Smoke
Queue # 2 (who the heck was 1?)