>From my iphone (which i still have despite having a captivate like you) I use rhythmweb to control rhythmbox which works pretty decently. Just set up a book mark on your home page and it should work.
sri On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Michael Bonertz < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am not too concerned about the Apple side of things as I don't have an > iPhone or iTunes. I was just using it as a functioning example of what I > was asking about. I am however using Rhythmbox on Ubuntu 10.04 and I do > have a Samsung Captivate running the Android OS 2.1 Eclair. There are > several DAAP programs for the Androids and I have gotten some of them to > work with Rhythmbox but they are only able to stream from my computer to my > phone. There is no way to remotely control Rhythmbox from the phone. > Basically I am lazy and want to be able to control Rhythmbox from my couch > with my phone. Play music on my computer, switch songs, and adjust volume > from my phone. > > > > Thanks, > Mike > Independent AMSOIL Dealer #1743459 > http://www.nwperformancewarehouse.com > [email protected] > Toll Free: 888-702-6016 > Cell: 509-793-8333 > > On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 15:56 -0500, W. Michael Petullo wrote: > > >> Just wondering if there is a way to remotely control Rhythmbox with an > >> Android phone. Something similar to the Apple Remote for the Iphone. My > >> wife has that installed on her iPhone and is able to control all the music > >> on her computer via her phone she can control Itunes volume, play music on > >> the computer, stream music on the computer, and is also able to play the > >> music on her phone too. > > > We were talking about this recently in the following thread: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2010-October/msg00026.html > > > > The Apple Remote software on the iPod/iPad uses the DACP protocol > > to control an iTunes server. This is related to the iTunes DAAP protocol > > for streaming music to/from iTunes. Alexandre was working on support > > DACP in RB as a Google Summer of Code project this year. I'm not > > clear how much of this work is already included with Rhythmbox: > > http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2010/AlexandreRosenfeld_Rhythmbox > > As he has explained, Alexandre's Google Summer of Code effort focused > on two things: Rhythmbox and libdmapsharing. All of his libdmapsharing > work was merged (I am the maintainer of libdmapsharing) and is available > in libdmapsharing 2.1+. The Rhythmbox side of his work is available > athttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625214, along with comments > from Alexandre, Jonathan Matthew and me. > > > Note that Apple changed some things in v2 of their Remote application, > > and I understand that on the iPad it now requires "Home Sharing" support. > > Yes, and as a result, the Rhythmbox code mentioned above does not > work. Furthermore, DACP work has come to a standstill because neither > Alexandre nor I have time to continue work in the face of these > major(?) changes (we had anticipated only small changes being required > this fall). What we need is someone to step up and continue the effort > that Alexandre began over the summer. He did a lot of good work and I > would like to see DACP support completed. > > > There are probably several Android apps with DACP/DAAP support > > for controlling/streaming iTunes (or a 3rd party server which supports > > these protocols). I don't have an Android device so have no suggestions. > > > > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel > >
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