Remote control feature on Amarok

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

Have you had a look at this script?

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/WebUI?content=114438

- Nikolaj

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
> Milot,
> This is very cool. Would be awesome to see something like this exist
> in Amarok -- could it be done as a script?
>
> I'm also wondering why you chose to implement a plugin point in
> Amarok; why didn't you use MPRIS and dbus?
>
> Seb
>
> On 18 March 2010 19:28, Milot Shala <milot.shala at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear fellow developers,
>> I have created my personal video manager and player about a year ago and I
>> was working on it periodically because I was the only user, now as I want to
>> be a part of Amarok team and help develop it I have a suggestion for a
>> feature.
>> Yesterday I have added very small nice feature to my player just for
>> demonstration purposes here what can be nice feature to add to Amarok, it is
>> for remote controlling Amarok via mobile device; I have recorded a video
>> that shows you how it works and if you are interested on adding this kind of
>> feature to Amarok, and I would be glad to work on this part, the video is
>> located here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY-YiEJfFjM
>> For the demonstration that you are about to see, I've written a very simple
>> application for Nokia using Qt and I have added some lines of code using
>> QUdpSocket on the player side that can listen to a specific port (666111)
>> for income, at the time it receives a message from the mobile device, based
>> on the message that is sent, the player invokes its play, pause or setValue
>> on a slider functions  in order to control the player.
>> IMO this feature can be very useful to Amarok because people can control
>> their music during a party, of course some other functionalities such as
>> displaying the current playlist on the phone and better UI should be
>> implemented, but for now I think you've got the point.
>> Thank you,
>> Sincerely,
>> --
>> Milot Shala, Software Engineer
>> www.spartansoft.org | m.shala at spartansoft.org
>>
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> Seb Ruiz
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