jeudi 11 septembre 2008

Remote app for Rhythmbox

Rhythmbox is the default mp3 player for the Gnome environnment ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/ ). I'm on Ubuntu and I've had the idea ( before Apple ^^ ) to make an App to control my favourite player from my iPod Touch...

I did it on old firmware (1.1.4) with jiggy but with the new Firmware i've had to port (completely rewrite actually) it to iPhone-Java (easier for me). The Rhythmbox part is a little python plugin (basically a small web server).
Features:
  • Browse thru Albums
  • Browse thru Artists
  • Search for songs (live search)
  • Play/Pause/Next/Prev/Volume control
  • See Playlist
  • A tap on a song to add it to playlist
  • Swipe style navigation to browse back (Albums<-Tracks)
  • Left Swipe on a nav window to clear playlist
  • Left swipe on cover to see playlist

Screenshots:



I have still to do :
Covers retrieve
many more things...


Installation:
download these two zips:
plugin
app

unzip the first one in ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins
install iphone java package from cydia
unzip the second archive to /Applications folder
restart springboard
set your computer ip in the .properties file (in /Applications/JRemote.app/ )
Launch rhythmbox
launch JRemote
enjoy :)

8 commentaires:

TW a dit…

i am very interested in your application as i have been looking for something that does just this...however, after following your instructions, the app crashes as soon as it loads. i see the rhythmbox logo and then it cuts back to the homescreen. what is wrong? any help will be appreciated! thanks!

Abolitionist What? a dit…

Unfortunately, I have the same problem as Tstar, running on firmware 2.2.1.

Has there been any new work on this project?

Unknown a dit…

Did you guys modify permissions to 775?
should do the trick!

Guillaume a dit…

I think you need to create a simlink named Java in the app folder.
$cd /Applications/JRemote.app
$ln -s Java /usr/bin/java

rob a dit…

You should actually finish this properly and sell it on the appstore, or at least put it in a cydia repo.

Brewster a dit…
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Brewster a dit…

same problem with the automatic closing. all JRemote.app (and all subdirs at 755), files at 644.

this will be a great cydia addition when its finished.

Unknown a dit…

Any movement on this app?