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Re: Bringing the Quintessential BlackBerry Experience to Other Platforms

Tyson Key — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 04:38:40 -0000

Any plans to add support for additional devices, in the near-term? I'd love to use this on my Sony Xperia Z5 Compact - but it's listed in Android Market as being incompatible.

Re: Use your UPnP remote to control MPD

Tyson Key — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 11:59:07 -0000

Hi medoc92,

I'm using MPD version 0.16.7, on Raspbian (based on Debian 7.8); and "mpd -V" reports support for the following codecs:

[mad] mp3 mp2

[vorbis] ogg oga

[oggflac] ogg oga

[flac] flac

[audiofile] wav au aiff aif

[faad] aac

[mpcdec] mpc

[wavpack] wv

[mikmod] amf dsm far gdm imf it med mod mtm s3m stm stx ult uni xm

[ffmpeg] 16sv 3g2 3gp 4xm 8svx aa3 aac ac3 afc aif aifc aiff al alaw amr anim apc ape asf atrac au aud avi avm2 avs bap bfi c93 cak cin cmv cpk daud dct divx dts dv dvd dxa eac3 film flac flc fli fll flx flv g726 gsm gxf iss m1v m2v m2t m2ts m4a m4b m4v mad mj2 mjpeg mjpg mka mkv mlp mm mmf mov mp+ mp1 mp2 mp3 mp4 mpc mpeg mpg mpga mpp mpu mve mvi mxf nc nsv nut nuv oga ogm ogv ogx oma ogg omg psp pva qcp qt r3d ra ram rl2 rm rmvb roq rpl rvc shn smk snd sol son spx str swf tgi tgq tgv thp ts tsp tta xa xvid uv uv2 vb vid vob voc vp6 vmd wav wma wmv wsaud wsvga wv wve

Looks like adding "http-get:*:audio/x-ms-wma:*" doesn't make the BBC Live Radio streams work, though, since the BBC have seemingly deprecated them - although Linn's plug-in still lists them, for some reason. Going to test with a WMA file, if I have one floating around, though.

Re: Use your UPnP remote to control MPD

Tyson Key — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 09:46:08 -0000

On second thoughts, adding http-get:*:audio/L16:DLNA.ORG_PN=LPCM;DLNA.ORG_OP=01;DLNA.ORG_CI=1 to the protocolinfo.txt file seems like a dumb idea, from quick testing, since I just receive random noise...

As a workaround, I've reconfigured Asset UPnP to transcode FLAC/MP3/OFR/WMA to WAVE, instead of Linear PCM - but I don't know if it'll break playback on the PlayStation 3's UPnP renderer, since I've had problems with some files on that.

Re: Use your UPnP remote to control MPD

Tyson Key — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 09:28:59 -0000

Thanks for implementing this!

It seems to work pretty well, although sadly I've noticed that it doesn't advertise support for http-get:*:audio/L16:DLNA.ORG_PN=LPCM;DLNA.ORG_OP=01;DLNA.ORG_CI=1, or http-get:*:audio/x-ms-wma:* - so I can't play back either transcoded files from Asset UPnP, or the BBC's live radio streams using Linn's Kinsky UPnP client.

If I get time, I guess that I could have a look at the code, and install a suitable ARMv6 toolchain - but for now, I just thought that I'd mention it here, in case someone else has the same problem.

Re: Huffin and puffin over a duffin - the doughnut-muffin hybrid raising heat between Starbucks and small pastry chain

Tyson Key — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:05:58 -0000

Bah, Disqus failed to post my previous comment. Surely they could compromise, and call it a "Muffnut", or a "Moughnut"?

Re: The War on Wonga: Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby tells payday loans company, 'We're putting you out of business'

Tyson Key — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:18:11 -0000

Hmm, Wonga, and the Church of England? They're pretty much made for each other, as useless, irrelevant, and vicious parasites, I think.

Re: How Korean Pop Conquered Japan - Patrick St. Michel - Entertainment - The Atlantic

Tyson Key — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:04:18 -0000

Hmm, there are plenty of "mature" Japanese musicians. (Hideaki Tokunaga, Kobukuro, Off Course, Orange Range, Honda Minako, and Yumi Matsutoya come to mind, immediately). It's not all super-high-temp, bubble-gum stuff presented by just-post-pubescent, teenage girls.

Re: Texas Instruments wants to ditch smartphones, switch focus to embedded processors

Tyson Key — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:17:58 -0000

I wouldn't be surprised if "losing" Nokia as a smartphone SOC customer had a part to play in this decision - given that pretty much every Nokia smartphone in existence, prior to the introduction of the Lumia range contained an OMAP SOC.

Re: DNP RoMOS is Russia's take on Android OS, shields users from Google's prying eyes

Tyson Key — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 04:41:11 -0000

Um, no. The Android kernel's just a modified version of the mainline Linux one. If anything "interesting" happens, it'll be in the proprietary application layer packages that Google, OEMs, or operators supply for use on top of the open Android components.

Re: Meet the OwnFone: a customizable mobile phone that epitomizes simplicity

Tyson Key — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:07:13 -0000

No, the UK government doesn't mandate the installation of GPS receivers, for emergency services geolocation in mobile phones - and there are still a lot of new, and existing devices on sale here without them.

Re: EEG headware probes your neurons, shows interrogators your cranial contact list

Tyson Key — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:16:26 -0000

There's also another company called NeuroSky working on similar technology - which they've already commercialised.

Re: The Top 10 best sounding Symbian smartphones ever

Tyson Key — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:47:35 -0000

The N73, and the HS-23 headset were a wonderful combination, as far as audio reproduction was concerned. The internal speaker was OK for FM radio usage; and great for playing alarm sounds, and ringtones - but a mixed bag for general music playback.

It's just a shame that they chose to use an incredibly flimsy joystick component (the plastic nub fell out of both N73s that I've owned), and their proprietary PopPort connector; and that it didn't support HSDPA. S60 3rd Edition FP1 (at least) support would have been nice, in hindsight, too.

Re: Sky+ rolls out a new HD guide starting today, keeps live, DVR and VOD TV level (video)

Tyson Key — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:06:13 -0000

Yeah, mostly written by NDS using OpenTV middleware (previously running on a proprietary kernel on the Sky+HD/Sky+/vanilla DigiBoxes, - and now on Linux on Sky+HD boxes, instead), and XTV for the PVR functionality.

As a side note - despite the Sky+HD boxes having Ethernet ports for the VOD service, all other interactive functionality that requires a return path (e.g. the Sky Active game score updater, and former e-mail access service) is *still* carried out using a 56k dial-up modem, until this day.

Re: New smaller SIM format gets standardized, shrinks 40 percent (update: Nokia gives bitter OK)

Tyson Key — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:23:50 -0000

Nice idea - but a SIM card isn't just a few kilobytes of EEPROM data that can be copied at will.

SIM cards also contain a CPU, and software that accepts commands to store/retrieve data, perform cryptographic functions on data from the cellular network (using keys that are protected from external tampering, for authentication), and interface with application software running on the rest of the phone (to support displaying menus, and to determine device functionality).

Re: New smaller SIM format gets standardized, shrinks 40 percent (update: Nokia gives bitter OK)

Tyson Key — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:06:41 -0000

The GSM SIM card was originally developed from existing ISO7816 smartcard technology (as also used by credit/debit cards, energy prepayment cards, and TV Conditional Access cards), since it was presumably more cost-effective than totally, and unnecessarily re-inventing the wheel with new protocols, and form factors.

That said, technology of the day (in the '90s, when GSM was being developed) simply wasn't advanced enough to further miniaturise something the size of a credit card, anyway; and they had the foresight to realise that most people will replace handsets fairly frequently.

Re: BBC editors: please abbreviate properly

Tyson Key — Fri, 04 May 2012 18:08:49 -0000

Thanks for this post - even though I discovered it years after its publication. I couldn't agree more with your sentiment, and to be honest, this trend feels like "institutionalised laziness" (for want of a better description).

Re: Pirate Bay Enjoys 12 Million Traffic Boost, Shares Unblocking Tips

Tyson Key — Thu, 03 May 2012 10:01:28 -0000

For what it's worth, it appears that Orange (owned by France Telecom), aren't currently blocking access to The Pirate Bay for their ADSL-based broadband customers.

Re: Amazon outs Cloud Drive desktop app for Windows and Mac, allows easy access to your digital wares

Tyson Key — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:44:17 -0000

You can also use it with RackSpace's Cloud Files(?) service - which is more economical in the long term, since they don't charge for bandwidth utilisation.

Re: Google Docs bumps up free storage to 5GB, primes servers for Drive?

Tyson Key — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 06:11:00 -0000

I now have a 5GB quota. As for GMail, they've seemingly increased its quota by a whopping 3MB recently - so it's now 7703 MB...

Re: Kaz Hirai reveals 'One Sony' turnaround strategy, will cut 10,000 jobs

Tyson Key — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:24:42 -0000

For what it's worth, they also do a lot of R&D in content recommendation systems, materials science, smartcards and security technologies (e.g. FeliCa and Clefia), and display and imaging tech, amongst other things - but not all of it actually makes it into shipping products, so it seems.

Re: April Fools' Day roundup: the big toys, the small toys and the cats

Tyson Key — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:54:31 -0000

So *that's* what their secret Meltemi project was about?

Re: NEC will cut 10,000 jobs after forecasting $1.3 billion annual loss, mostly in mobile phone biz

Tyson Key — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:49:50 -0000

They were responsible for some of the first European-market 3G (UMTS) feature phones, when said networks initially launched (around 2002-2003), and the initial buzz was surrounding videocalling functionality, and proprietary content portals (of all things).

I had an e616V - which wasn't a bad phone in retrospective. (It had decent build quality, AGPS support, and rudimentary multitasking functionality - on a proprietary Nucleus RTOS-derived platform, no less), even if it was cumbersome in comparison with some of the GSM-only handsets at the time; used Sony MemoryStick Duo cards for external storage; had crippled Bluetooth support (no OBEX); and its predecessor had a habit of voraciously consuming battery power (so the V was shipped with 2 batteries).

That aside, it's a shame really - since they made some nice handsets for NTT DoCoMo, from what I remember (quite a long time ago, now).

Re: Nokia penalised for texting tips to Aussie users, regrets not adding unsubscribe option

Tyson Key — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:38:50 -0000

Presumably that more than one dialect of English exists? ;)

Re: Panasonic plans to go forth with Android to all of Europe this spring, North America is a definite maybe

Tyson Key — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 06:20:01 -0000

I'm sure that I had a Panasonic dumbphone once - although it was a rather clunky brick with a monochrome display, and rather forgettable specifications.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S II LTE arrives in Japan, NTT DoCoMo offers up its first course of 4G phones

Tyson Key — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:13:46 -0000

For what it's worth, I vaguely recall reading somewhere that DoCoMo was supposed to be an acronym, formed from the phrase "Do Communications over the Mobile network".