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I don't remember exactly how this is defined and I don't have the code at hand atm. But yes, you need to modify yadl.h and then you need to recompile BOTH the firmware and ylink against the modified header file. Otherwise they will not understand each other.

I'm here too, but I don't use it either. I have only done ylink and not the E-Ylink GUI which is where I think you are seeing the problem. If you can show that the problem lies in ylink then I will try to fix it

I have loaded the firmware now but i'm having a hard time using it so I haven't had the possibility to test much. But here are my comments (some already noticed by others):

Pros:

• Mass storage worked immediately Flashed firmware and uploaded the bundled graphics through the player.

Cons:

• The backlight only works during power-on. It doesn't matter how many times I let the player shutdown and restart.
• The menu navigation is "hard" since you have to constantly push the button to navigate (holding down the button does nothing).
• The sound was "mono" until I changed the volume.

Keep up your good work Mic. When the next update is out i'll try to play a bit more with it but for now there is no point since I can't see

I wouldn't say that it's "dead", but yes it's kind of slow at the moment. But we are also in the middle of summer when there are lots of other things wanting our attention I've been too busy at work during spring to be able to keep up with whats been done on the firmware front but I hope to be back when we are coming closer to the "dark times" again The yamppod is too cool to leave alone...

Can you post a kind of tutorial like the one MIC posted for the Dev tool install and config (YAGARTO, TURTOISE, ECLIPSE, etc...)?

please. 

I know it takes time but it may help lot of people like me.
thank for your precious time.

Not until next week because I have no Eclipse at home right now But if you right click on your ypod project (or any file(s)) you will get a menu and there you should have "Team"->"Update". That will update your current selection in Eclipse. Like Jesper wrote, this will not overwrite your changes. If there are no conflicts you will get your code and svn merged automatically. Otherwise it will tell you that there are conflicts that you need to solve manually.

You should also find "Compare" so you can compare your file against svn, "Replace" so you can overwrite your file with a svn version etc.

Once upon a time...I used MP3 Book Helper to edit and manipulated my tags. But that was before I saw the light and moved away from Windows

Oh, no need for oldschool mail lists when we have SVN, lets try to stick to the forum as the way to communicate...

Who said anything about communicating through email???

In explorer, select the folder level in your local copy of the repository where you want to view changes...
TurtoiseSVN->Check for modifications, now click the button check repository, and hey. better than any email, you can see wich files you have updated local, what files that are updated in the repository... And now.. Select a file that has changed with right click, select compare with working copy... And now you really see what has changed...

I know how to do *that*, it's not the *first* time i'm involved in distributed development! All open-source projects I have been involved in which has a common repository offers the possibility to be automatically notified whenever there is a change.

What you suggest requires that you to have the possibility to regularly access the svn to update your local copy just to see if someone has made any changes.

This is a known "problem" with VBR files. And in the ypod it is currently only reading the info from the MP3 decoder. You have a few possible ways to fix it. All methods rely on that you have to read parts or the whole file to know the "truth".

• Rely on that there is tag in the ID3v2 tag where a median bitrate value is stored.
• Read a few MP3 frames and calculate the median bitrate value and you will get a "good enough" value most of the time.
• Read all MP3 frames and calculate the median bitrate value. This is the only way to get a correct value.

In the yampp-player this was not a problem because you had an external app that transfered the files and then this information was parsed by the external computer. With the ypod you can use a normal FAT32 filesystem and either just copy the files or transfer the files through USB. That leaves the ypod responsible for all parsing.

When I have time I was thinking about looking into this area because I worked on this in ylink. But i'm waiting for the development strategy first