Remote control feature on Amarok

[Seb Ruiz]

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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