Stuart On 20 Sep 2007 at 10:01, stuart wrote:
> Why? Well, say you were listening to music somewhere in the house and > you walked into the den and decided to stay and... read your e-mail. > You start up some new music but still can hear what you left playing > somewhere else in the house. Simply take control of that other > slimserver client and shut it down. Handy. > Ok, as you were reading your e-mail, it follows you could have done the > above w/your browser instead. So... turn everything around and say you > started in your den and ended up somewhere in the house w/o a computer. Personally, I don't think I'd use this feature since I have a wifi pda which I use say when I am in the kitchen and don't want to walk over to the living room. However, the WAF for such a thing would be high, especially when we add several of the hardware slimdevices (or equivalent) in other rooms.... > Getting to the point - what would make this feature useful? > That is, would you use it if all you had was the "REMOTE CONTROL MODE" > message at the top of the screen? Including the name of the remote client, in conjunction with or instead of "remote control mode" would be my preference, since this is similar to how you'd do it in the browser. > > Or would you need one or more of the following?: > 1) State of the remote client (i.e. STOP, PLAY, PAUSE...). Yes > 2) Two line widget as seen on the remote client (the classic slimserver > two line display). maybe > 3) Image of the album (if available) as displayed on the remote client. nope > 4) List of titles in play list (this may be difficult) as seen on the > remote client. nope, as long as I can see what's currently playing > 5) Listen to what is playing on the remote unit (may not be as hard as > one might think). Sounds cool, yeah! -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
