We’ve tried that. Theres one problem in that approach that we are not able to fix:

Servers are not implemeting correctly the standard, thus making it quite hard to make sure that a folder is a music / video folder.

Also, to have a dynamic list appearing in the middle of the other media categories doesn’t make too much sense, but this is minor.

But the main problem is really : there’s just trustable way to say “get my music folders” and also.. almost all the serve will create a similar structure like the music folder itself. So the user:

a) will se all the regular canola options plus : Shared media and then …

c) by album, by genre and etc sent by the server.

So in the end, the problem is to see how this could be solved but its not too easy : /

Marcelo

I don’t have a Nokia tablet yet. Do you think it would be possible in the future to show the upnp content from a server (NAS box) in the respective categories instead of the extra “media servers” category? (E.g. music from server shows up in “music” in canola)

Thanks a lot and congratulations on such a great looking program.

Urs

P.S: Does canola2 run on the N770?

I found a few links for a few projects developing UPnP media servers for linux, thought I’d share it here:

http://ushare.geexbox.org/ – GeeXboX uShare UPnP A/V Media Server (one nice note about that: Their media server provides its own web-based control interface, and if you must, a telnet-based control interface. I haven’t used it, but I think it looks quite promising)

http://mediatomb.cc/ – MediaTomb, fully web-based in the interfacing

http://freshmeat.net/projects/gmediaserver/ – FM info on GMediaServer; project homepage link available there. I’ve used GMediaServer, as of now, but I must admit that I was really not impressed with the quality of audio coming through it. I’m not sure what was at fault for that issue, perhaps it was a matter of the wlan interface, but I’d like to think it was the main software component in the thing. (Granted, the audio files I was listening to were encoded with Lame’s Variable bit-rate encoding. My iPod, since its most recent update, has developed significant problems in playing those files back, due to the bit-rate fluctuations inherent in files encoded with that method, such that the iPod can’t handle, with its power-management mux (so I hear) quite interfering with the playback. Unfortunately about all of my ripped MP3s are encoded with Lame and VBR. Ego, I was hoping the N810 could handle it, we’ll see :)

http://freshmeat.net/projects/ushare/ – UShare, another, I haven’t looked at it yet

on a different note:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/djmount/ – DJMount, it’s reported to allow you to ‘mount’ a UPnP media device so that you can access it, through the linux kernel, as like it was a normal filesystem. Perhaps it could be said to exist along some of the more technically low-level qualities of “interfacing”, that, and I think it’s quite intriguing.

Hope this is, at least, informative

I just picked up an N810 recently. I’m really impressed with some of the apps available for it — such as Xournal, Notecase, LXDoom, and of course, Canola. I’m working on utilizing the UPNP support, right now — trying to share the music off my laptop with my N810, when it’s in wlan range, of course ;^)>

I’m looking forward to using Canola on my Linux box, too. The interface, so to speak, it kicks the ever-loving buttsky of that infamous Granny Smith company. Rock on!