O2 Joggler Forum

zedthegreat wrote:Hi

I have been having similar issues where different apps seem to work one time, then not the next. I was going to follow the instructions and advice here, but wondering what Man In a Van meant on point 4 of the original reply. Is this to make the image take the whole space of the memory stick, and if so is there a site which would explain how to do this?

Cheers

I haven't really commented in the media player related threads for the Joggler as I haven't used Joggler for this yet and I think that there is so much more Jogglers can be used for. Anyway, here goes the first :

Man in a van's points :

4, load the EXTERNAL image of SqPos onto a USB 2 stick,16gb is good.

5, resize the USB stick (this gives plenty of room when upgrading LMS)

Point 4, means write the Squeeze Play OS image to a USB flash drive. There are many places for instructions on this. Rhoobarb! I am sure has written excellent instructions for this. I can say that if your using Windows then WinDiskImager is probably the easiest way to do this. There are others, but probably not as nice.
When you write the image to the flash drive it will *typically not* occupy the full space available on the flash drive. I'm not sure what the size of the image is, but lets say it is 2GB. If you write this to a 16GB flash drive then the image will occupy 2GB and there will be 14GB that is not used and not available by default, unless you do the next step, (Man ia Van 5)

Now point 5 is the more involved one, but there are some good tools to do this.

You need a partition resizing tool. I like linux live distros for this. And to use these you would boot your PC/Laptop from another flash drive that has a distro on it to do partition resizing. Of course you may have Linux on your PC/Laptop, in which case a live linux distro is probably not necessary and you could just install the right tools for this. But I will continue as if you are using a live linux distro.

My favourite use to be PartedMagic, as it has a lot of the best tools you can get. But, and understandably so, the creator is now asking for money for this. It is perfectly legal to get the latest image through a torrent, but I'll leave that up to you to research if you want to do it.

For what you want to do I would recommend this :

http://gparted.org/livecd.php

This is a live distro for the best tool, IMHO, that you need to use. Download an image and look at PenDriveLinux.com for a tool like UNetBootIn, YUMI or something like that, which will take a live image (ISO) and write it to a flash drive so that a PC?Laptop can boot it. Once your PC/Laptop has booted with the live image, you can insert the flash drive with SqPOS on it and start up GPartEd. In here you can choose your SqPOS flash drive and you will see the partitions on the drive. Just choose the main partition and choose to change the size to the maximum for the drive. This shouldn't take long to complete, and when done you can close down the GPartEd and the PC/Laptop and then put the SqPOS flash drive into the Joggler. If all went well the Joggler should boot, and if you can look at the size of the main partition somehow, you should see that it is now the size you resized the partition to earlier.

I apologise in advance that I am writing this without actually doing what I have stated. It probably has some issues with it, but I would hope that being a Joggler enthusiast you can get the jist, tinker, learn and report back ! Play a bit on a flash drive that you have nothing to lose on; so you will have nothing to lose and a lot to learn !

HTH a bit... Sorry if it is not clear. Feel free to query.

PS I don't know if this will sort out the issue where you have apps that only work once. And yes step 5 is to make the image occupy the whole of the memory stick (step 4 just puts it onto the memory stick). Many sites will explain what you need to do, which is what I have tried to do above, but in relation to the Joggler. There will be many threads here that do so too, but I don't have a favourite nor recall any in particular. Once you have done it a few times you will see that there is actually not that much to it, if you use GPartEd or similar tools. There is a good, free tool for Windows, but it may not like all the different types of Linux file systems, so I think it is better to use a Linux based tool to do the task, but I may be wrong.

Edit - corrections.

Well the weirdness continues for me.

Having got one joggler nicely set up in the living room I thought I'd get one going in the dining room too.

I really can't fathom what is going on now though. When I try to play a playlist on Spotify it skips to the next track after playing random amount of time on the track. Sometimes almost a minute then to the next track, maybe a second, then to the next track a few more seconds of that one and so on.

Is this a known issue and an easy fix?

It started on the new joggler in the dining room but on trying the lounge one it does the same???


I realise mabe just going to a usb installation could be one fix, but I'd rather have the OS installed.

Good to see you back Sir,

roobarb! does advise against running both Squeezeplay and LMS on the internal memory but it is possible.

Today I have loaded both onto the internal memory and am now playing Spotify (Triode's plugin, with the official plugin disabled).

Using earphones out of the Joggler back; no apparent problems.

My installation procedure was as follows:- flash the OS onto the internal memory, then update Squeezeplay and then install LMS (this gives v7.8.0), one has to be patient as it seems to take a while.

Now up to track nine of this;

Teddy Ray's Ultimate Audiophile(THE ORIGINAL)

Might just be one of those "have you switched it off and on? moments"

good luck

atb

Ronnie.