3.2 - Preferences

Before getting to adding files and create copylists though, the first things that get displayed, are two messages. "Muvon Configuration does not exist, default values will be used" and "Path provided cannot be found. Either the directory does not exist or is not yet mounted.". Both of these messages should happen and there is not a bug in the application!!

When MuVOn is first executed it searches for a file .muvon in the user's home directory. If this does not exist, it uses some default config values (hence the first message). Next, MuVOn checks to find whether the player is mounted. It takes whatever value has been specified by the config for the player's mounted directory (in this case, the default value has been set as /mnt/muvo). MuVOn finds this directory does not exist and gives the second message.

THUS... Some values need to be provided in order to get MuVOn working happily on your system. Helpfully provided is a preferences window, which will allow the creation of a .muvon config file in your home directory with the correct values for your system. Right-click the MuVOn and select Preferences from the menu.

Preference Parameters:

• Default Source Directory -> when the Source List is opened, the directory contents of this directory is what will be displayed. Purely a convenience parameter, but if you have a /home/Music directory like I do then I suggest you set it.
• Default Mount Point -> needs to be set in order to get anything out of MuVOn. Provide it with the directory where the player is mounted to, eg. /mnt/mdrive/
• Default Copylist Directory -> another convenience parameter designed to point to the directory where previous copylists are stored so that when the Open Copylist button is clicked, this is the directory that is opened.
• Only Select MP3 Files From Source Directory -> anything can be copied to the muvo player as it is just a USB mass storage device but only MP3 files will be played. So if you just want to limit the player to music files only then this is a helpful parameter to set to TRUE. If you want to use MuVOn for more than organising music then leave it unchecked.