maemo.org Bugzilla – Bug 9498
Media Player won't recognize ogg files as media
Last modified: 2010-12-02 06:07:02 UTC
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SOFTWARE VERSION: (Settings > General > About product) EXACT STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM: (Explain in detail what you do (e.g. tap on OK) and what you see (e.g. message Connection Failed appears)) 1. Media player won't recognize .ogg files as media and make the accessable in player 2. Media player plays .ogg files once located and selected via file manager 3. Can't play an entire album or create a playlists of .ogg file it will only play one song at a time. EXPECTED OUTCOME: ACTUAL OUTCOME: REPRODUCIBILITY: (always, less than 1/10, 5/10, 9/10) EXTRA SOFTWARE INSTALLED: OTHER COMMENTS: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)
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1. Using my Umbuntu Harty Heron configured PC I ripped audio CDs into .ogg format. 2. I connected my N900 to said PC using the USB connection and transfered the .ogg files to the N900. 3. I opened the standard Media player that is resident on my N900. 4. None of the .ogg files I copied are visible within the Media player. 5. I opened the file manager program that comes with the N900 and found the .ogg files that I transfered. 6. I selected one of the .ogg files and it began to play on the resident Media player indicating that the player could indeed play the .ogg files. 7. The Player will only play the .ogg files using this method. In other words one file at a time individually selected by the user utilizing the file manager program. 8. There is no way to play a whole .ogg album or to create a play list utilizing the method discribed above. 9. The issue remains repeatable as none of the .ogg files are accessable utilizing the Media Player.
> EXTRA SOFTWARE INSTALLED: > So I assume that ogg-support is installed? This problem also remains after a reboot?
1. Yes, as I stated in my amended report once I selected .ogg files utilizing the file manager program they ran fine and sounded great indicating that the Media player was successfully updated to play the .ogg files. 2. I have also tried numerous re-boots to no avail. The condition remains.
CC'ing Tuomas - maybe he has an idea how to debug and what might be wrong.
(In reply to comment #6) > CC'ing Tuomas - maybe he has an idea how to debug and what might be wrong. > The only idea that comes to mind is that Tracker (file indexer) can take quite a while to index all the new files, espcially if there are a lot of them. And Media Player shows only the files reported by the Tracker. If waiting some hours doesn't help, try removing ogg-support and installing it again. There are also command line tools that can be used to debug the actual problem.
This is interesting, since my Media Player recognises and plays .ogg files correctly. (Although I only have a few of them.)
William, was comment 7 helpful?
I think this belongs to Ogg Support. If this is moved there, I'll resolve this as WORKSFORME.
Thank you for your suggestion, but it was one of the first things I tried, and the problem still remains. I've tried everything without success.
Which mime type do these ogg files have? application/ogg? audio/ogg? Something else?
Hi, I too think I have this bug, or at least, I am now suffering the same issue. In short I am on PR1.2, I have extra codecs enabled and all has been well till this evening. Last night I copied ALL 3172 of my Ogg music across to the N900 and it all appeared in Media Player just fine. I was listening to them today in fact. Then tonight, when I noticed some duplicate entries of songs, I did the following steps: THE STEPS TO REPRODUCE IT: -------------------------- tracker-processes -r /usr/lib/tracker/trackerd -r & It then counts down for about 10 minutes till tracker indexing is done (I check using tracker-status too) THE PROBLEM: ------------ Now I have just 26 music files visible in Media Player, and these are all MP3 files. :( EVIDENCE IN LOGS: ----------------- I ran trackerd with debug 2 and then verbose debug 3 and it definitely sees and indexes ALL my Ogg files, BUT, it looks like it categorises them as Other instead of Music. Here is the evidence in the log (debug 2): 10 Jun 2010, 20:16:42: Tracker: State change from 'Indexing' --> 'Paused' 10 Jun 2010, 20:16:42: Tracker: Stopping disk space check 10 Jun 2010, 20:16:45: Tracker: Checking for statistics changes and signalling clients... 10 Jun 2010, 20:16:45: Tracker: Updating 'Images' with new count:143, old count:0, diff:143 10 Jun 2010, 20:16:45: Tracker: Updating 'Music' with new count:26, old count:0, diff:26 10 Jun 2010, 20:16:45: Tracker: Updating 'Other' with new count:3172, old count:2783, diff:389 10 Jun 2010, 20:16:45: Tracker: Updating 'Folders' with new count:366, old count:308, diff:58 10 Jun 2010, 20:16:45: Tracker: Updating 'Videos' with new count:11, old count:0, diff:11 10 Jun 2010, 20:16:45: Tracker: Updating 'Text' with new count:9, old count:1, diff:8 10 Jun 2010, 20:16:45: Tracker: Updating 'Files' with new count:3756, old count:3092, diff:664 10 Jun 2010, 20:16:45: Tracker: Updating 'Documents' with new count:29, old count:0, diff:29 10 Jun 2010, 20:16:45: Tracker: State change from 'Paused' --> 'Indexing' 10 Jun 2010, 20:16:45: Tracker: Starting disk space check for every 10 seconds I saw NO errors in the log by the way. So I only see 26 Music files, but those 3172 Other files are my Ogg music file!!! They WERE visible in Media Player yesterday, but after tracker-processes -r they won't come back. :( The Ogg files playback ok if you open them manually, but I want to use media player of course. I tried uninstalling extra codecs and resinstalling it, to no avail. I have rebooted the N900 many times and run tracker-processes -r many times too, and I just cannot get my Ogg music to appear again. :( Please help!
If it helps, here is the list of relevant packages I have installed: ii tracker 0.6.95-25maemo1+0m5 All-in-one indexer, search tool and metadata database. ii tracker-distutils 0.1-1 Helper scripts to un/register new mimetypes in tracker ii tracker-extractor-vorbis 0.1-2maemo2 Add vorbis format metadata extraction in tracker ii tracker-utils 0.6.95-25maemo1+0m5 Tracker command line applications to lookup data ii mediaplayer 1.2-18+0m5 Media Player ii mediaplayer-l10n-cscz 6.0+r7611+0m5 language files for mediaplayer (cs_CZ) ii mediaplayer-l10n-dadk 6.0+r7611+0m5 language files for mediaplayer (da_DK) ii mediaplayer-l10n-dede 6.0+r7611+0m5 language files for mediaplayer (de_DE) ii mediaplayer-l10n-engb 6.0+r7611+0m5 language files for mediaplayer (en_GB) ii mediaplayer-l10n-enus 6.0+r7611+0m5 language files for mediaplayer (en_US) ii mediaplayer-l10n-eses 6.0+r7611+0m5 language files for mediaplayer (es_ES) ii mediaplayer-l10n-esmx 6.0+r7611+0m5 language files for mediaplayer (es_MX) ii mediaplayer-l10n-fifi 6.0+r7611+0m5 language files for mediaplayer (fi_FI) ii mediaplayer-l10n-frca 6.0+r7611+0m5 language files for mediaplayer (fr_CA) ii mediaplayer-l10n-frfr 6.0+r7611+0m5 language files for mediaplayer (fr_FR) ii mediaplayer-l10n-itit 6.0+r7611+0m5 language files for mediaplayer (it_IT) ii mediaplayer-l10n-mr0 6.11+0m5 mediaplayer marketing release package ii mediaplayer-l10n-nlnl 6.0+r7611+0m5 language files for mediaplayer (nl_NL) ii mediaplayer-l10n-nono 6.0+r7611+0m5 language files for mediaplayer (no_NO) ii mediaplayer-l10n-plpl 6.0+r7611+0m5 language files for mediaplayer (pl_PL) ii mediaplayer-l10n-ptpt 6.0+r7611+0m5 language files for mediaplayer (pt_PT) ii mediaplayer-l10n-ruru 6.0+r7611+0m5 language files for mediaplayer (ru_RU) ii mediaplayer-l10n-svse 6.0+r7611+0m5 language files for mediaplayer (sv_SE) ii mediaplayer-restore 1.2-9+0m5 restore mediaplayer original settings ii mediaplayerhomeapplet 1.2-10+0m5 Fremantle Media Player Home Applet i mafw-dbus-daemon 0.2.2010.06-1+0m5 MAFW UI library ii mafw-gst-renderer 0.2.2010.07-2+0m5 MAFW gst renderer plugin ii mafw-iradio-source 0.2.2010.06-1+0m5 MAFW internet radio source ii mafw-iradio-source-bookma 1.3.2010.07-1+0m5+10.2010 MAFW internet radio bookmarks ii mafw-playlist-daemon 0.2.2010.06-1+0m5 MAFW Playlist daemon ii mafw-tracker-source 0.2.2010.06-1+0m5 MAFW source based on tracker ii mafw-upnp-source 0.2.2010.07-2+0m5 MAFW UPnP source plugin ii gstreamer0.10-nokia-speech 1.0-0maemo11+0m5 Provides GStreamer wrappers for p ii gstreamer0.10-ogg 0.10.23-0maemo4+0m5-tk1 GStreamer ogg plugin from the "ba ii gstreamer0.10-openmax 0.10.0.6~1-0maemo17+0m5 gst-openmax is a GStreamer plug-i ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.14-git265-0maemo10+0m5 GStreamer plugins from the "bad" ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-extra 0.10.14-git265-0maemo10+0m5 Extra GStreamer plugins from the ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.25-0maemo14+0m5 GStreamer plugins from the "base" ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-camera 0.79-1+0m5 GStreamer plugins for camera appl ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.16-git276-0maemo18+0m5 GStreamer plugins from the "good" ii gstreamer0.10-rm 0.10.10.2-1maemo2-5 Realmedia gst plugin from the ugl ii gstreamer0.10-theora 0.10.23-0maemo4+0m5-tk1 GStreamer theora plugin from the ii gstreamer0.10-tools 0.10.25-0maemo2+0m5 Tools for use with GStreamer ii gstreamer0.10-vorbis 0.10.23-0maemo4+0m5-tk1 GStreamer vorbis plugin from the ii gstreamer0.10-wma i
Just to note that before PR1.2, I had used tracker-processes -r many times to clean up the list of my music (almost all Ogg) and that always worked fine. Since PR1.2, this is the first time I have run tracker-processes -r. Also of note is that I now have a 32GB microSD card in my N900, formatted to ext3 (type 83) and it automounts just fine. This all works as the trackerd lists the Ogg files in the verbose debug 3 log as being indexed ok. I also put an Ogg file on the main MyDocs/ folder just in case, and trackerd doesn't add that one as Music either, so it's not the microSD card. So, I think something in PR1.2 caused the problem, as a guess. Thanks.
(In reply to comment #12) > Which mime type do these ogg files have? > application/ogg? audio/ogg? Something else? How do you find out the Mime type of a file on the N900? Anyway, I used Nautilus file manager on my Ubuntu PC to look at the file properties and that says the Mime type is: Ogg Vorbis Audio ( audio/x-vorbis+ogg ) I have looked and looked for Mime type display on the N900 but still cannot find anything to tell me the mime type on the N900. I'll keep looking. Any more ideas? Btw, I have made tracker ignore my directory of Ogg files and have copied just one of them to MyDocs/ in case there was a corrupt one somewhere causing the problem. However, even with just the one Ogg file, Media Player still doesn't show it because the trackerd does not call it Music, it calls it Other. Filemanager on the N900 just says Ogg Vorbis audio when I click and hold on the file and then choose Details.
It MUST be trackerd that is the problem. I have just used Media Player on the N900 to browse the Ogg files on my PC via MediaTomb UPNP server and they show up fine on Media Player. I'm really stumped now and just want to listen to my music. Any suggestions on how I can get it all working again?
Finally, I used file --mime to get the mime type (had to install it first): ~/MyDocs/Music $ sudo gainroot /home/user/MyDocs/Music # apt-get install file /home/user/MyDocs/Music # file --mime 01-keep_on.ogg 01-keep_on.ogg: application/ogg So, that looks fine to me. What next?
(In reply to comment #16) > (In reply to comment #12) > > Which mime type do these ogg files have? > > application/ogg? audio/ogg? Something else? > > How do you find out the Mime type of a file on the N900? Problem is that there is no global way for checking mime type. Applications use different methods for that. For remote locations (like UPnP or HTTP), the server reports the mime type, so that cannot be affected locally. "file" command has its own database, so does gstreamer. GnomeVFS uses the information in /usr/share/mime/ where ogg-support adds its mime types (/usr/share/mime/packages/00_ogg-support.xml). I think Tracker gets its information from there as well. You can ask Tracker to print out the metadata and mimetype with this command: /usr/lib/tracker/tracker-extract -v 3 -f <file.ogg> This prints something as well (not sure if that's taken from the database or extracted from the file): tracker-info <file.ogg> You can list all files in Music category: tracker-files -s Music Or you can list all files having the ogg/vorbis mimetype: tracker-files -m audio/x-vorbis+ogg
Thank you very much Tuomas! :) So, it turns out that tracker really does think my Ogg files should be put into the category 'Other' rather than 'Music'. I wonder why? Anyway, here are the output results of me running those commands: ~/MyDocs/Music $ tracker-info 01-keep_on.ogg Defaulting to 'files' service Results: 13 for '/home/user/MyDocs/Music/01-keep_on.ogg' 'File:Name' = '01-keep_on.ogg' 'File:Path' = '/home/user/MyDocs/Music' 'File:Mime' = 'audio/x-vorbis+ogg' 'File:Size' = '6855014' 'File:Modified' = '1276200702' 'File:Accessed' = '1276128000' 'File:Added' = '1276280597' 'Audio:Title' = 'Keep On' ... ~/MyDocs/Music $ tracker-files -s Music Results: 25 /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/Closer To Where You Want Me.mp3 /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/Waiting For The Time.mp3 /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/Love Sounds.mp3 /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/Total Fantasy.mp3 /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/10brief-gain5.mp3 /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/15-any_second_now-ph.mp3 /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/You Think You Want It.mp3 /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/oldPhone5.mp3 ... NOTE: Limit was reached, there are more items in the database not listed here ~/MyDocs/Music $ tracker-files -s Other Results: 512 /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/Cc.note.html /home/user/MyDocs/trackerd03.log /home/user/MyDocs/trackerd02.log /home/user/MyDocs/trackerd01.log /home/user/MyDocs/Video/playmovie.sh /home/user/MyDocs/Video/playmovie.sh.bak /home/user/MyDocs/Music/01-keep_on.ogg /media/mmc1/music/OggEncodeAFLACAlbum.sh /media/mmc1/music/james_morrison/undiscovered/11-how_come.ogg /media/mmc1/music/james_morrison/undiscovered/03-wonderful_world.ogg /media/mmc1/music/james_morrison/undiscovered/09-this_boy.ogg /media/mmc1/music/james_morrison/undiscovered/05-one_last_chance.ogg ... NOTE: Limit was reached, there are more items in the database not listed here ~/MyDocs/Music $ tracker-files -m audio/x-vorbis+ogg Results: 512 /home/user/MyDocs/Music/01-keep_on.ogg /media/mmc1/music/abba/gold/01-dancing_queen_1976.ogg /media/mmc1/music/abba/gold/02-knowing_me_knowing_you_1977.ogg /media/mmc1/music/abba/gold/03-take_a_chance_on_me_1978.ogg /media/mmc1/music/abba/gold/04-mamma_mia_1975.ogg ... NOTE: Limit was reached, there are more items in the database not listed here The above output proves the problem is with tracker then, I'd say. So, my next question is, how do I configure tracker to place Ogg files in the category Music rather than Other? Rename them all to *.oga? Surely not. :) Thanks in advance! P.S. Please excuse the taste in music, I never listen to those particular songs pasted above, tracker just happened to find those first. :)
Oh, and the first command I accidentally omitted reports this: ~/MyDocs/Music $ /usr/lib/tracker/tracker-extract -v 3 -f 01-keep_on.ogg Initializing tracker-extract... Setting IO priority Setting process priority Loading extractor modules Adding extractor:'/usr/lib/tracker/extract-modules/libextract-xmp.so' with: Specific match for mime:'application/rdf+xml' Adding extractor:'/usr/lib/tracker/extract-modules/libextract-playlist.so' with: Specific match for mime:'audio/x-mpegurl' Specific match for mime:'audio/mpegurl' Specific match for mime:'audio/x-scpls' Specific match for mime:'audio/x-pn-realaudio' Specific match for mime:'application/ram' Specific match for mime:'application/vnd.ms-wpl' Specific match for mime:'application/smil' Specific match for mime:'audio/x-ms-asx' Specific match for mime:'application/x-ms-asx' Adding extractor:'/usr/lib/tracker/extract-modules/libextract-tiff.so' with: Specific match for mime:'image/tiff' Adding extractor:'/usr/lib/tracker/extract-modules/libextract-ps.so' with: Specific match for mime:'application/x-gzpostscript' Specific match for mime:'application/postscript' Adding extractor:'/usr/lib/tracker/extract-modules/libextract-vorbis.so' with: Specific match for mime:'audio/x-vorbis+ogg' Specific match for mime:'application/ogg' Adding extractor:'/usr/lib/tracker/extract-modules/libextract-mp3.so' with: Specific match for mime:'audio/mpeg' Specific match for mime:'audio/x-mp3' Adding extractor:'/usr/lib/tracker/extract-modules/libextract-oasis.so' with: Generic match for mime:'application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.*' Adding extractor:'/usr/lib/tracker/extract-modules/libextract-pdf.so' with: Specific match for mime:'application/pdf' Adding extractor:'/usr/lib/tracker/extract-modules/libextract-png.so' with: Specific match for mime:'image/png' Specific match for mime:'sketch/png' Adding extractor:'/usr/lib/tracker/extract-modules/libextract-gstreamer.so' with: Generic match for mime:'audio/*' Generic match for mime:'video/*' Generic match for mime:'image/*' Adding extractor:'/usr/lib/tracker/extract-modules/libextract-jpeg.so' with: Specific match for mime:'image/jpeg' Adding extractor:'/usr/lib/tracker/extract-modules/libextract-abw.so' with: Specific match for mime:'application/x-abiword' Adding extractor:'/usr/lib/tracker/extract-modules/libextract-html.so' with: Specific match for mime:'text/html' Specific match for mime:'application/xhtml+xml' Setting memory limitations: total is 239.8 MB, virtual/heap set to 121.6 MB (100.0 MB buffer) OOM score has been set to 15 <--- [1] Command line request to extract metadata, path:'/home/user/MyDocs/Music/01-keep_on.ogg', mime:(null) ---- [1] Guessing mime type as 'audio/x-vorbis+ogg' for path:'/home/user/MyDocs/Music/01-keep_on.ogg' ---- [1] Extracting with module:'/usr/lib/tracker/extract-modules/libextract-vorbis.so' ---- [1] Found 12 metadata items ---- [1] Found 'Audio:Title'='Keep On' ---- [1] Found 'Audio:Genre'='Other' ---- [1] Found 'Audio:ReleaseDate'='2005' ---- [1] Found 'Audio.Samplerate'='44100' ---- [1] Found 'Audio:TrackNo'='01' ---- [1] Found 'Audio:Album'='Keep On' ---- [1] Found 'Audio.Bitrate'='192' ---- [1] Found 'Audio:Artist'='Will Young' ---- [1] Found 'Audio.Duration'='284' ---- [1] Found 'Audio.CodecVersion'='0' ---- [1] Found 'Audio.Channels'='2' ---- [1] Found 'Audio.Codec'='vorbis' ---> [1] Success, no error given ~/MyDocs/Music $ It seems to be guessing, but otherwise looks ok to me. Any suggestions on how to fix my Ogg problem? Thanks in advance.
(In reply to comment #20) > Thank you very much Tuomas! :) > So, my next question is, how do I configure tracker to place Ogg files in the > category Music rather than Other? Rename them all to *.oga? Surely not. :) Files are registered to categories by mimetype, not by extension. The following command should do it and it's run by the ogg-support's postinst script: tracker-register-mimetype -c Music -a audio/x-vorbis+ogg -a for add and -d for delete.
Thanks! Unfortunately this did not fixed the problem, I don't know why not. Hang on may be I need to reboot, but first let me try again... Ah, second time it worked!!! Not sure why I needed to run it twice, but the first time it did not touch any files. I ran it first as user user by mistake then I ran as user root btw. But the first time I ran as user root the command ran ok but clearly did not work. I just ran it again as root (without needing to reboot) and this time it works and this time it touched files too So I had to run it twice as user root. Thanks a million!!! Fantastic support and really quick too!!! Thank you so much. Wouldn't get this level of support with iPhone I bet. ;) So, I now have almost 3000 songs in Media Player! Phew! :) For the record, here is the output: ~ $ sudo gainroot Root shell enabled BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. /home/user # tracker-register-mimetype -c Music -a audio/x-vorbis+ogg Found 165 pids... Found process ID 2320 for 'trackerd' Terminated process 2320 NOTE: Limit was reached, there are more items in the database not listed here touch /media/mmc1/music/abba/gold/01-dancing_queen_1976.ogg touch /media/mmc1/music/abba/gold/02-knowing_me_knowing_you_1977.ogg touch /media/mmc1/music/abba/gold/03-take_a_chance_on_me_1978.ogg touch /media/mmc1/music/abba/gold/04-mamma_mia_1975.ogg touch ... tracker-update-ontology -c Music -a audio/x-vorbis+ogg Tracker status is 'Idle' /home/user # So, I don't know why this Ogg problem occurred for me (it doesn't occur for my friend who has an almost identical installation on his N900) but I am wondering if perhaps it is a permissions problem because I have set a password for user user. I did this a few weeks ago, but Nokia said it was safe to do so. I set the password for user so that I could ssh in as user user and also disallow ssh in by user root, for security reasons. Anyway, it's probably not that but there would appear to be a bug somewhere as running the following command has fixed it: tracker-register-mimetype -c Music -a audio/x-vorbis+ogg I can only assume it did not get run successfully by the ogg-support's postinst script for me, for some reason, during the PR1.2 upgrade. I do recall the extra codecs package being installed in addition to PR1.2 at the time, which I thought was odd as it was for PR1.1, but I have reinstalled it since anyway and still no joy. Perhaps it need to run twice like it did for me just now, not sure why the first time failed to work. Anyway, all working now, thank you VERY much for all your help!!! :)
And finally, just in case it helps anyone... After all this I noticed that some of my music (a lot of it, about 2000 songs) had been placed in artist 'unknown' as shown in Media Player. All I needed to do to fix this was to run again the command: tracker-processes -r wait 10 minutes for it to index the lot, and then ALL my ogg file were properly listed in Media Player. :) Hope that helps someone.
Will, glad that it works for you now. Closing this bug report as the issue could not be reproduced. Please feel free to reopen this report if you can provide better steps to reproduce this. :-/
Hi! Just to say I have just updated to PR1.3 over my WLAN today. And unfortunately my 3000 Ogg Vorbis music files are no longer listed in Media Player. Yep, trackerd thinks they are 'Other' rather than 'Music', again. So, I've just fixed this (again) by doing the following: > sudo gainroot > tracker-register-mimetype -c Music -a audio/x-vorbis+ogg > tracker-processes -r Finally, click on Media Player and then wait while it spends 10 minutes or so Retrieving information on the new media files... I now have my 3066 Ogg Vorbis songs back :) Phew! :)
Hi Thanks for the solutions posted here. After the PR1.3 release all of my oggs showed up in Media Player as "Unknown - 1 album / 603 tracks" ! even though tracker-info etc was correctly identifying them as oggs and showing the album/track metadata. My music is on an SD card. I went through all the solutions posted but what worked for me was: 1. associate the mime type with Music as posted (audio/x-vorbis+ogg) - just to be sure. 2. tracker-processes -r to completely rebuild the database and let trackerd reindex your files. 3. be patient with the reindex, espec if you have thousands of oggs. use tracker-status and tracker-stats to show how the indexing is going. These should be run as user, *not root* (because you run Media Player as user). As root I was getting all kinds of segmentation faults. Thanks James