I can't believe I forgot to document this new feature!..

You can right click a selection of tracks/playlists/soup in emplode and select "Download". You then get to specify a folder into which they will be saved. The tracks are named:

Album - Track Number - Artist - Title.mp3

More sophisticated download features may be added later - but it's a start

Rob

Yeah, I saw this but didn't investigate. Doh!! Excellent stuff. Just need Mark Lord to add his bits now .

Just need Mark Lord to add his bits now

I have patched a 2.0b7 MkII kernel with mlord's hijack v80 and voladj. There were two patch rejects, but those correspond to things that Mark's patch is expecting to fix, but are already fixed in the distribution source (the empeg_therm related stuff.) Otherwise everything went fine.

Unfortunately I can't test it right now because I don't have a serial cable at work. But since the patch and compile went well, I can't see any reason the kernel won't work.

Anyway if you don't mind the risk of having to re-upgrade if things go wrong, get it from here.

gunzip it before flashing (the gunzipped filename will be

zImage.mk2_v2.0b7_hijack_v80_unofficial

Cool, you guys actually included the new fonts. Don't know if you had time to look or include the last update I sent last week or if it was the original mod. In any case, check your mailbox sometime after the holidays...

Bruno

Thanks. Any chance of having it in ZIP format for us Windoze users?

Thanks. Just installed it. Looking good so far . Excellent... hehe... Merry Christmas. May Santa empty his entire sack in your Christmas stocking .

I'd just like to point out that every Windows ZIP utility I've seen in the last few years also deals with gzip. FYI.

Glad to hear it works. Never know until you try!

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

That's what I thought. I'm using WinZIP 8 and it didn't like the gzipped file.

Well, smack my ass and call me Shirley. I just tried it with my PowerArchiver and it didn't like it, either, despite the fact that I know PA works with gzip files. It likes other ones on my system. Tony, did you do anything weird to create this gzip file? Maybe it's gzip3 or something?

Any chance of getting a addition on the config file to where we can change the naming format for downloading mp3s?

OK... erm Shirley . Oh yeah, tried something called PowerDesk 4.0 too. That didn't like it either.

Speaking of release notes omissions, did anyone else notice the position indicator on the Track Info mode? There's a bright dot on the separator line between the Artist and Album. Neat! (Of course, someone's gonna respond and tell me that that's been there since 1.01 and make me feel like an idiot.)

I've noticed this too. If it was there before then I missed it as well, so you won't be the only idiot.

Tony, did you do anything weird to create this gzip file? Maybe it's gzip3 or something?

EDIT: I believe as a "convenience" MSIE automatically gunzip's the files (but doesn't rename them!). You guys using IE by any chance? If so, the "gz" file you downloaded is probably already unzipped

<< Shrug >>... I didn't TAR it first, maybe that's a problem? I just gzipped the zImage file with no options in RedHat 7.1...

Winrar 2.90 didn't mind the .gzip file.

Oh well, I'm off to grab my empeg, upgrade it, then head out for the holidays. Hope everyone else here has a safe and happy holiday season this year, lets leave the worries of this year behind us and start the new year off better.

Aha! that may be it. yes I was using IE. Hmmm very helpful of it, I don't think .

Yippee! Just what I wanted for christmas.

Thank Santa..

Yeah that's new too. In fact there are lots of new things that Toby has put in which nobody asked him to, hence no documentation! These programmers can be so undisciplined

Rob

I assume they're the most recent ones that you sent - Toby emailed me about them late last week.

Thanks for your help with those!

Rob

You're right and you're wrong. It's actually a misconfiguration on your HTTP server. It sends, amongst others, the following headers:

Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Encoding: gzip

This tells the client that the data it wants is the plain text that's encoded within the gzip, but it has no other filename than the one it requested. Your web server is probably assuming that it should use Content-Encoding because of the filename instead of setting a correct Content-Type (application/x-gzip?). The bug that seems to exist in IE is that it should be showing the kernel in the browser as plain text instead of saving it. It has been told that it's plain text in the Content-Type, and it knows how to unencode it. Weird.

Which new fonts? Sorry if I missed a thread somewhere.

Which new fonts? Sorry if I missed a thread somewhere.

It's in the release notes. If I recall correctly, it was Hybrid8 who took the original fonts and did some pixel-touch-up work on them. Most notably, the small font number "8" is a little bit smoother.

Looking at the length of the release notes you must have been behind your keyboard for at keast two days now, so most of us will probably forgive you

Doh! I guess that means I'll have to fix that in my EmpTriv game since it uses a ripoff of the Empeg small font. Damn this so-called "progress"

Heh, luckily most of the release notes build automatically from our bug and task databases. The bit I have to remember are the new things that were never in either of those databases!

Rob

I still haven't updated to beta7 yet. If my latest fonts are included (I would think they are, by Rob's account) then there are a lot of modified characters. Plus one which was missing originally (large "tm").

I tried to keep everything subtle, so if you don't notice the changes, all the better. I hope everything still looks natural. BTW, every small number except 0 and 1 was changed (the most noticeable should be the number 4). :) I have a few more edits to submit, but I'm going to preview them for a bit on my machine.

Bruno

I have a request, then. Edit the `u-umlaut' to match the normal `u'. It's currently way too wide. Others may have similar problems, but that's one I've noticed.

As near as I can tell, there's only a one-line change in the kernel from Hijack v80 to the beta7 base.. no need to hack hijack just to run beta7.

But I will output a v81 sometime on the 25th or 26th with the one extra line..

Cheers

I think I've already made that modification. However, I just updated to the new beta and it looks like the fonts included are my first revision. I sent a much improved new rev to Toby late last week, but that may have been too late for the build (it included a lot more changes than are in this release).

I will make sure to revist all the accented characters for both the small and medium font (I'm not touching the huge font used in visuals).

Hopefully the guys at empeg agree with all the mods - they have the final say-so of course as to what changes get incorporated.

Bruno

Welp I dunno what the line is, but I just made it simple and took a 2.0b3 kernel, ran the Empeg beta3->beta7 patch, and ran the VolAdj and Hijack patches over top. If this only yielded one line of difference then so be it, but it seems to be working, and I've got hijack on my 2.0b7 Empeg. Joy To The World.

>Welp I dunno what the line is, but I just made it simple
>and took a 2.0b3 kernel, ran the Empeg beta3->beta7 patch,
>and ran the VolAdj and Hijack patches over top.
>If this only yielded one line of difference then so be it,
>but it seems to be working, and I've got hijack on my 2.0b7 Empeg.
>Joy To The World.

Oh yeah, thanks for filling in, Tony!

-ml