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Gearlux / GDeskTunes

Desktop Player for Google Play Music™
http://gearlux.github.io/GDeskTunes/
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Remote control #29

Open Vivahex opened 9 years ago

Vivahex commented 9 years ago

Is it possible to get apps for remote controlling the current playing song?

Do any exist that I can connect to this somehow; or can a dedicated app be created

Gearlux commented 9 years ago

If I understand your question correctly, you are looking for a way to use a remote controller to control GDeskTunes ?

I general I would say that it must be possible, although I don’t have any experience with this.

Which remote controller on which OS do you want to use ?

On 21 Dec 2014, at 19:31, Vivahex notifications@github.com wrote:

Is it possible to get apps for remote controlling the current playing song?

Do any exist that I can connect to this somehow; or can a dedicated app be created

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/Gearlux/GDeskTunes/issues/29.

Vivahex commented 9 years ago

Yeah you got it.

Currently I use this on my android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.steppschuh.remotecontrolcollection

However, if there was a way a standalone android app could be made that would work great too. Kind of like how Spotify allows you to play songs/playlists and skip tracks on the app, but play them on the desktop. Yatse (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.leetzone.android.yatsewidgetfree) has a way of locally showing all media in the library and playing on the computer, that may be help.

If I can be of any help on this please let me know, though I've only the most basic knowledge in Android applications

(P.S. I just found out about this project, I was using Google Music Desktop player before but that was pretty buggy, yours works and looks so much better)

Gearlux commented 9 years ago

Sounds cool. So a dedicated android/iphone app to control the music app playing on the desktop. You definitely triggered my attention. This would also be an interesting test case to checkout Qt development for mobile devices. It should be relatively simple to build a basic android application which communicates with the desktop app. If the desktop application is stable, I will have a look at it. In the mean time, feel free to explore yourself

On 21 Dec 2014, at 20:18, Vivahex notifications@github.com wrote:

Yeah you got it.

Currently I use this on my android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.steppschuh.remotecontrolcollection https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.steppschuh.remotecontrolcollection However, if there was a way a standalone android app could be made that would work great too. Kind of like how Spotify allows you to play songs/playlists and skip tracks on the app, but play them on the desktop. Yatse (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.leetzone.android.yatsewidgetfree https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.leetzone.android.yatsewidgetfree) has a way of locally showing all media in the library and playing on the computer, that may be help.

If I can be of any help on this please let me know, though I've only the most basic knowledge in Android applications

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/Gearlux/GDeskTunes/issues/29#issuecomment-67781029.

Vivahex commented 9 years ago

Thanks a lot :) Yeah I hope it can get working. I'll try creating a basic app with media controls, see how that turns out. I've got time off uni for Christmas. It'll be a fun learning project!

Thanks for the program :)

Gearlux commented 9 years ago

Getting closer ...