Nokia N800, Canola and OGG Vorbis

I managed to stop my Nokia N800 from correctly booting the other day. I had a bit of a “moment” in the terminal and typed “apt-get upgrade” which seemed to go OK - until I rebooted. Then my N800 got stuck in a loop and refused to boot up.

Fortunately I was able to re-run the firmware flasher and re-install OS2008 (getting an upgrade in the process). After that it booted normally and I could begin the slightly irritating task of putting everything back on.

To play music I use Canola which is a really nice media player that, with some minor tweaking will play OGG Vorbis music as well as MP3. Since it’s a bit complicated making OGG Vorbis work at the moment I have included the instructions below:

This comes from the ITT forum post linked to above, courtesy of etrunko:

1) Install ogg-support from application manager (instructions in http://ogg.garage.maemo.org)

2) Install libvorbis0a package manually either using application manager in red pill mode or typing the following command in xterm *AS ROOT*

# apt-get install libvorbis0a

3) Finally, download and install the lightmediascanner0-ogg package using either application manager in red pill mode or typing the following command in xterm *AS ROOT*

# dpkg -i path/to/lightmediascanner/package

Tags: blog365, canola, Linux, music, N800, nokia, ogg