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Here is a new Gmu release for Dingoos running Dingux.

It comes with some new (and some old re-enabled) features, such as lyrics and cover viewer and improved volume control. For more details have a look at the release notes page.



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Looks like a great flexible player! I like the "Hold function (turns off display backlight for power saving)". Allows one to play MP3's much longer. It's also skinnable, is there a location where we can download skins?

And (for me) the most important question: has it got a(n) (auto) resume function? That is, when I turn my Dingoo on and start the Gmu player, does it continue in the middle of the song that I was playing before I turned the Dingoo off?

MeneerJansen wrote:Looks like a great flexible player! I like the "Hold function (turns off display backlight for power saving)". Allows one to play MP3's much longer. It's also skinnable, is there a location where we can download skins?

Besides the skins that come with Gmu, there are also some other skins available, e.g. these skins:

Liquido skin
Skin pack (5 skins)
Rock skin

Those skins have been made for the GP2X version of Gmu, but work just fine with the Dingoo version as well.

Just extract those skins in you Gmu directory such that the .skin files are in the Gmu directory. The skin files are usually in a subfolder.
Then open your gmu.conf file in a text editor (like vim, Geany or Mousepad or Notepad++ in Windows - do not use Wordpad or Notepad though) and edit the line

DefaultSkin=default.skin

to match the new skin you want to use, e.g.

DefaultSkin=rock.skin

And (for me) the most important question: has it got a(n) (auto) resume function? That is, when I turn my Dingoo on and start the Gmu player, does it continue in the middle of the song that I was playing before I turned the Dingoo off?

No, that is not possible yet. I might add such a feature in a future version, though.

I made a small theme of the default one. (only made the background and changed the font color)
download here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?neoh3jgwylh (ps file included!!)
Dingoo in the background isn't really working so I am thinking of just removing it.
GMU works pretty good I only have to get used to the buttons.

Thank you both for your kind replies. I really really really really really really hope you will add the resume function before I'll receive my Dingoo in the mail from DealExtreme. I can't wait to hop in my car and use the Dingoo as my MP3 player. I'll drive to my best friend's house and play all the arcade games on his wide screen LCD TV that we used to play as a kid. And afterwards watch some old childhood movies that I captured from VHS on the Dingoo. And when I drive back home I hope my Dingoo will continue from the exact same spot in 'Shine on you Crazy Diamond' where it left off when I parked my car.

Is there a way to show the Album name in the playlist?

Is there a way to show Japanese characters in song names?

Is there a way to show the Album name in the playlist?

Currently not, but would be possible to add it as an option in the future.

Is there a way to show Japanese characters in song names?

At the moment, this isn't possible either. The reason for that is, that Gmu uses bitmap fonts (with ISO-8859-1 characters) which do not include japanese characters. I was thinking about allowing the use of "True Type" fonts in a future release. With such fonts and full Unicode support it would be possible to display japanese characters as well.

Oh, btw, I have released Gmu 0.7.0_BETA6 recently. It is mostly a bugfix release.

Some tips that might help others:
1. The covers for your albums will only show up if they are quite small, say about 400x400 pixels.

2. To show the cover and/or lyrics for the file you are currently playing (that is: not the first "cover.jpg" that GMU finds) you must edit the file /local/apps/gmu/gmu.conf. Change the following line to read:

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CoverArtworkFilePattern=$.jpg;$.png;*.jpg;*.png;cover.jpg;cover.png;front.jpg

That is, add the pattern "$.jpg;$png". The dollar sign ($) means: "currently playing file".