Emphatic Install questions

Posted by: djdrock

Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 15:20

I am running Hijack beta 11, and having difficulty with Emphatic. Here are my questions...

1. Will it work with hijack beta 11?
2. I edited the .bat file and changed the ip to the correct ip address for my player. I then added the [output] notify=1 to the config.ini file. I then double clicked the .bat file and this is what I got: Does this look correct?

Installing emphatic...

C:\Documents and Settings\djdrock\Desktop\emphatic-1.10>ftp -s:install-emphatic.
ftp 192.168.1.2
Connected to 192.168.1.2.
220 Connected.
User (192.168.1.2:(none)):
230 Login okay.
ftp> quote site rw
200 Okay.
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: 348756 bytes sent in 1.21Seconds 287.99Kbytes/sec.
ftp> quote site chmod 755 emphatic
200 Okay.
ftp> quote site ro
200 Okay.
ftp> quit
221 Happy Fishing.

C:\Documents and Settings\djdrock\Desktop\emphatic-1.10>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

3. I rebooted my player, accessed the hijack menu by holding down the volume button, but there is no menu for Emhpatic. Any ideas?

4. There is no [Startup] section ReserveCache=48 in my config.ini. Do I need to manually add it? Here is a copy of my config.ini.

[tuner]
region=us
[controls]
stalk_side=none
[Options]
Name=empegcar
[User Info]
Email=djdrock@blah.com
Phone=317-123-3456
Name=David Eaton
[Network]
Gateway=0.0.0.0
Netmask=255.255.255.0
IPAddress=192.168.1.2
DHCP=0
[sense]
muteaction=0
mute=-1
[power]
off_timeout=60000
[display]
visual_names=1
caching=1
[synchronise]
seq_num=59
[wendy]
flag_amount=0
[custom]
wendy=
[searches]
amount=0
[VisualFavourites_AM]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_AUX]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_DSP]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_FM]
count=0
[hush]
hushpercent=20
[volumecap]
enabled=0
[kenwood]
disabled=0
[ramp]
disabled=0
[menu]
quit=0
sort_playlist=1
[aux]
source=
title=
artist=
[output]
notify=1


Thanks for your help!!!


Posted by: justinlarsen

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 15:35

firts off you will need to create or make a /usr/local/bin folder as the player dosnt have this on there by defualt. I assume this is just how tony (ynot) has his player setup.

The easier solution woudl be to ftp in and make it.

also you im not too sure about beta 11 but you shouldnt have to add the [Startup] section ReserveCache=48

You will need to have the latest hijack version installed, then read the readme that comes with the program about adding a new line to your config.ini file to have hijack start the program.
Posted by: tfabris

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 16:00

Will it work with hijack beta 11?
That is a non sequitur. Perhaps you mean... Empeg software version beta 11, with hijack?

If you are running beta 11 empeg software, please upgrade to beta 13 as it fixes some egregious bugs in beta 11. Then upgrade to the latest Hijack. You need both in place before using Emphatic.
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 17:14

You are correct...hijack 11??? I now have software beta 13 installed and upgraded to hijack 320.

I used my ftp program to make the directory usr/local/bin, and then installed emphatic there. I verified this after the install in the ftp program, and the emphatic file (340KB) is there. I added the ;@EXEC_ONCE /usr/local/bin/emphatic line to my config.ini file. The [output] notify=1 is also there. I synchronized the player. Here is my config.ini file now:

[tuner]
region=us
[controls]
stalk_side=none
[Options]
Name=empegcar
[User Info]
Email=djdrock@blah.com
Phone=317-111-1111
Name=David Eaton
[Network]
Gateway=0.0.0.0
Netmask=255.255.255.0
IPAddress=192.168.1.2
DHCP=0
[sense]
muteaction=0
mute=-1
[power]
off_timeout=60000
[display]
visual_names=1
caching=1
[synchronise]
seq_num=60
[wendy]
flag_amount=0
[custom]
wendy=
[searches]
amount=0
[VisualFavourites_AM]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_AUX]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_DSP]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_FM]
count=0
[hush]
hushpercent=20
[volumecap]
enabled=0
[kenwood]
disabled=0
[ramp]
disabled=0
[menu]
quit=0
sort_playlist=1
[aux]
source=
title=
artist=
[output]
notify=1
;@EXEC_ONCE /usr/local/bin/emphatic

When I enter hijack, there still is no emphatic menu?

Still, any ideas?

Thanks!!!
Posted by: tfabris

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 17:18

The EXEC command must be in the [hijack] section, not at the end of the file like you have it. If there is no [hijack] section, make one.
Posted by: tonyc

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 17:19

Run the install script again now that /usr/local/bin is there. The install script has a command which will make the emphatic binary executable. The command is:

chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/emphatic

I'm not sure this is the problem, but since the script failed first, and now you've moved the binary manually, I'm thinking it's not an executable file. The above command will make it so.

If this is not the problem, then please post a log of what shows up when you boot your player. That should give me an idea of what's going wrong.

Edit: Bart is right. Try his suggestion first.
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 17:32

The text that is in my current "install-emphatic.ftp" is:
quote site rw
cd /usr/local/bin
bin
put emphatic
quote site chmod 755 emphatic
quote site ro
quit


Does this look correct?

I re-ran the .bat file...it is installing, but it still will not come up in hijack.

Is it the emplode.log file you want to take a look at?

Thanks again!!!
Posted by: tonyc

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 17:59

If it's still not coming up in hijack then please connect the serial cable to your computer, connect to it with hyperterminal, and post the log of messages that come up when you boot up your empeg. The FAQ should have details on how to do this.
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 18:22

Here is the file:

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-v320 (root@ibbm) (gcc version 2.95
.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Wed Feb 19 21:53:19 EST 2003
Processor: Intel StrongAR
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30102312)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14996k/16M available (996k code, 20k reserved, 368k 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 206f6972 'rio '
Found custom animation at offset 0x98378
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 d0004280).
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
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, AT
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
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:d7:26:09:0
8
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_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 ComðStarting
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
Posted by: tonyc

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 18:35

Okay you followed tfabris' suggestion and moved this line:

;@EXEC_ONCE /usr/local/bin/emphatic

to the [hijack] section of your config.ini, right? Can you post your config.ini?
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 19:04

I did move the file to the hijack area of the config.ini, but I had to create it. I based it on a post I had seen. I was able to, just once, see the emphatic menu in hijack. When I pressed it, it did nothing, and I had to resyncronize. It has not shown up since. Here is my config.ini:

[tuner]
region=us
[controls]
stalk_side=none
[Options]
Name=empegcar
[User Info]
Email=djdrock@blah.com
Phone=317-123-4567Name=David Eaton
[Network]
Gateway=0.0.0.0
Netmask=255.255.255.0
IPAddress=192.168.1.2
DHCP=0
[sense]
muteaction=0
mute=-1
[power]
off_timeout=60000
[display]
visual_names=1
caching=1
[synchronise]
seq_num=66
[wendy]
flag_amount=0
[custom]
wendy=
[searches]
amount=0
[VisualFavourites_AM]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_AUX]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_DSP]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_FM]
count=0
[hush]
hushpercent=20
[volumecap]
enabled=0
[kenwood]
disabled=0
[ramp]
disabled=0
[menu]
quit=0
sort_playlist=1
[aux]
source=
title=
artist=
[output]
notify=1
; +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
[hijack]
;@EXEC_ONCE /usr/local/bin/emphatic


Thanks again!!!
Posted by: tonyc

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 19:31

There's no sign of Hijack attempting to run emphatic with a hijack_exec command in the serial log you posted, and there's no output from emphatic telling me what's going on.

You've stumped me.
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 19:39

I just tried to reinstall it again...here is what I got:

C:\Documents and Settings\djdrock\Desktop\emphatic-1.10>ftp -s:install-emphatic.
ftp 192.168.1.2
Connected to 192.168.1.2.
220 Connected.
User (192.168.1.2:(none)):
230 Login okay.
ftp> quote site rw
200 Okay.
ftp> cd /usr/local/bin
250 "/usr/local/bin" directory changed
ftp> bin
200 Okay.
ftp> put emphatic
200 Okay.
550 Failed.
ftp> quote site chmod 755 emphatic
200 Okay.
ftp> quote site ro
200 Okay.
ftp> quit
221 Happy Fishing.

C:\Documents and Settings\djdrock\Desktop\emphatic-1.10>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

Notice, it does say "failed" in the text above. Could it have something to do with the command you posted earlier (chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/emphatic) and that the text that is in my current "install-emphatic.ftp" is:
quote site rw
cd /usr/local/bin
bin
put emphatic
quote site chmod 755 emphatic
quote site ro
quit

Is the only file that should be in the usr/local/bin area "emphatic"?

Thanks again!
Posted by: tonyc

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 19:44

No, what the script is doing is correct. The "failed" happens when it's trying to put the emphatic binary... Which makes me think that, when you ran the script, the emphatic binary is in use (running.) Either that, or your disk is full... Is there anything interesting on the serial console when you try running the batch file? And can you make sure that your serial log on bootup still looks the same as it did before?
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 19:50

when you say "Is there anything interesting on the serial console when you try running the batch file", what do you mean? Is the serial log the info from hyperterminal?
Posted by: tonyc

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 19:51

Yah, in Hyperterminal.
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 20:01

Here it is again:

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-v320 (root@ibbm) (gcc version 2.95
.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Wed Feb 19 21:53:19 EST 2003
Processor: Intel StrongAR
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30102312)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14996k/16M available (996k code, 20k reserved, 368k 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 206f6972 'rio '
Found custom animation at offset 0x98378
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 d0004280).
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
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, AT
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
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:d7:26:09:0
8
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_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
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 ComðStarting
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
Posted by: tonyc

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 20:03

No, I mean leave hyperterminal connected and try the install program. You should see stuff happening in the hyperterminal window, probably some Hijack messages like "remounting drive / read-write" or similar.

This is my last try tonight... I'm almost out of ideas.
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 20:16

Here is what hyperterminal said:

hijack: Remounting read-write: /
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
hijack: Remounting read-write: /drive0
hijack: Remounting read-only: /
hijack: Remounting read-only: /drive0

Posted by: tonyc

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 20:18

Okay that doesn't help me. I was expecting error messages from the Hijack ftpd when you see "failed" in the FTP window. Hopefully someone else looking at this (probably someone who isn't as tired as I am tonight) will have better ideas.
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 20:24

I saw on this post http://empeg.comms.net/php/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=hackers_prog&Number=143626&page=&view=&sb=&o=

that you mention making sure emphatic is executalble by this command:
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/emphatic

Should I try this, and if so, what is the best way?

And, is it normal for me to not have a hijack section in my .ini? I had to make one.

Thanks again!
Posted by: tonyc

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 20:26

The chmod 755 is doing the same thing as chmod +x. Can you do the following from the shell prompt, after quitting out of the player app from Hyperterminal:

ls -l /usr/local/bin/emphatic
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 20:29

Shell prompt? Do you mean from a command prompt? And if so, could you tell me specifically what to do. I am sure you can tell by now, that I have no programming skills. :-)
Posted by: tonyc

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 20:32

Well, don't let the terminology confuse you, just do what I asked. In the hyperterminal window, quit out of the player app by typing "q" then enter. You should be at a shell prompt which is the Linux equivalent of the command prompt. Then just type:

ls -l /usr/local/bin/emphatic

And you should see a directory listing which I was hoping would give me more info on what's happening here.

But I'm more confused by the fact that Hijack isn't complaining about the file not being there, so really, I'm just grasping at straws here.
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 20:38

I am so sorry to be a pain, but when I type q in hyperterminal, nothing comes up. Any ideas??

Posted by: tonyc

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 20:38

Type q then hit the "enter" key.
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 20:41

i did, it does absolutely nothing but have a flashing cursor. It does say that i am connected on the bottom left of hyperterminal.
Posted by: tonyc

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 20:46

Allright well then I am sorry to say that I'm 100% out of ideas for now.

In the future, I am hoping there will be a more automatic installation process for user applications, but until then, this manual, pain-in-the-ass process is what we've got, and, sadly, it's sometimes beyond the capabilities of those without Linux experience.
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 20:47

understandable. I appreciate what you have done so far. If anyone else wants to chime in with any ideas, please do so.

Thanks!!!
Posted by: lectric

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 20:48

Be sure you are using 115200 N81 as your settings in hyperterm.
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 20:52

Yep...flow control is off!
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 20:55

Hyperterminal says it is connected even when I have the serial cable unplugged. ????????
Posted by: mcomb

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 21:31

Hyperterminal says it is connected even when I have the serial cable unplugged

That is normal. There is no "heartbeat" over the cable so it doesn't really know if it is connected or not. Try pressing Control and the 'C' key. That should also quit the player. And then do the ls command Tony explained.

-Mike
Posted by: loren

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 22:08

He does have the developer kernel correct? otherwise he can't get to the shell.
Posted by: mlord

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 22:12

Hit Control^C instead then, nearly equivalent (and what I personally always use). That is, hold down the Ctrl key, and press/release the C key, then release the Ctrl key.

-ml
Posted by: msaeger

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 22:13

That was one of the mistakes made when installing this. Then I installed the developer image and forgot to reinstall hijack.
Posted by: mcomb

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 22:15

He does have the developer kernel correct


His boot log says he does...

I see this is a developer image!


So unless there is a bug with the player software identifying it that shouldn't be the problem. Perhaps the root partition is full and emphatic won't fit. If you can get to the shell you can use this command to check...

df -k /

or you can probably get your ftp client to tell you how much space is available (not sure how off the top of my head).

-Mike
Posted by: loren

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 04/03/2003 22:16

ah, doh. shoulda read the boot log. =]
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 05/03/2003 01:15

Well, good news. After many hours of trying to get it going, it is working. I think the magic potion was a combination of taking a couple of hours off to clear my head, and, reinstalling beta 13 developer and hijack. It is working fine. Man, this thing is great. Excellent job!!! Now, one with the editing of all of my songs. If I can do 10 a day, it will take me about, well, lets say I may never see em' all tagged.

Thanks for everybodys help!!!
Posted by: tonyc

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 05/03/2003 08:06

Glad it's working for you now. Incidentally there are efforts underway to make tagging easier. And the LRC database should be up soon, which should help us all out.
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 05/03/2003 09:12

Just a quick question regarding emphatic...Is it possible, or will it be possible, for the lyrics to stay in the "background" when you adjust the volume? To better clarify, when I adjust the volume of a song, emphatic does not stay on the display. I have to push in the volume knob, and it comes back up.
Posted by: tonyc

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 05/03/2003 09:18

Just a quick question regarding emphatic...Is it possible, or will it be possible, for the lyrics to stay in the "background" when you adjust the volume? To better clarify, when I adjust the volume of a song, emphatic does not stay on the display. I have to push in the volume knob, and it comes back up.

emphatic has to disappear for you to see anything coming from the player application. This has to do with the way Hijack allows user apps to use the display. Nothing I can do about it, sorry. The only other option is to go back to the way it used to work, where you couldn't see the volume bar at all. emphatic also hides itself when you go into the player's menu via the front panel bottom button, and that's also the only way I can show the player's menu. emphatic can't really tell what's going on with the player's menus, it just knows that you pushed a button.
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 05/03/2003 10:23

Thanks for the info. Maybe, the next version of hijack will allow this. Also, do you know of a way to edit an lrc file once it is embedded into the mp3. Say for instance the lyrics are incorrect, is there a quick way to edit this?
Posted by: tonyc

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 05/03/2003 10:24

Thanks for the info. Maybe, the next version of hijack will allow this. Also, do you know of a way to edit an lrc file once it is embedded into the mp3. Say for instance the lyrics are incorrect, is there a quick way to edit this?

Nope. Right now you gotta edit the LRC and re-tag the MP3.
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 05/03/2003 10:31

I feel like we are instant messaging. Will it be possible in future releases of emphatic for it to remember the settings...ie (font, scroll etc...)?

Thanks again!!!
Posted by: tonyc

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 05/03/2003 10:35

I feel like we are instant messaging.

We almost are. The BBS sends me an email when anyone replies to one of my posts, and since I'm at work, answering emphatic-related questions is more entertaining than answering work-related questions. So there ya go.

emphatic doesn't have anywhere to "remember" the setttings, but if you will take a look at the README file under "command line arguments" you can have it start up with the same settings each time. You would add those command line arguments to the EXEC_ONCE line in your config.ini

For instance, if you wanted to start in vertical mode with the medium font, your EXEC_ONCE line would look something like this:

;@EXEC_ONCE /usr/local/bin/emphatic -m 2 -f 1

-m 2 means "mode 2" which is vertical. -f 1 means "font 1" which is the medium font. You can also specify what row the horizontal scroller scrolls on, and some other less-important things.

But right now, there's no way for ANY user application to "remember" things.
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 05/03/2003 10:45

I am going to post my config.ini again:

[Startup]
ReserveCache=48
[tuner]
region=us
[controls]
stalk_side=none
[Options]
Name=empegcar
[User Info]
Email=djdrock@blah.com
Phone=317-123-2345
Name=David Eaton
[Network]
Gateway=0.0.0.0
Netmask=255.255.255.0
IPAddress=192.168.1.2
DHCP=0
[sense]
muteaction=0
mute=-1
[power]
off_timeout=60000
[display]
visual_names=1
caching=1
[synchronise]
seq_num=83
[wendy]
flag_amount=0
[custom]
wendy=
[searches]
amount=0
[VisualFavourites_AM]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_AUX]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_DSP]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_FM]
count=0
[hush]
hushpercent=20
[volumecap]
enabled=0
[kenwood]
disabled=0
[ramp]
disabled=0
[menu]
quit=0
sort_playlist=1
[aux]
source=
title=
artist=
[output]
notify=1
[hijack]
;@EXEC_ONCE /usr/local/bin/emphatic
;@EXEC_ONCE /usr/local/bin/emphatic -m 2 -f 1

Although hijack is working, it still is not coming on at startup, and adding the last line to set the default options is not working. When I upload a song to the player, after synchronization, when I go into hijack, the emphatic option is never there until I reboot the player. Then, it always shows up. Do you see anything odd in my config.ini?
Posted by: tonyc

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 05/03/2003 10:46

Dude, get rid of the first EXEC_ONCE entry.
Posted by: djdrock

Re: Emphatic Install questions - 05/03/2003 10:53

That did the trick. Again, I appreciate your help!