Remote control feature on Amarok

[Milot Shala]

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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