Remote control feature on Amarok

[Milot Shala]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen <
nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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I am looking at it right now, thanks for the reference :D

-- 
Milot Shala, Software Engineer
www.spartansoft.org | m.shala at spartansoft.org
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