So, I'm wanting to use an old 2008 iMac running El Capitan to be a media station (or something), but be able to control it with my voice, via my Android phone.
I was thinking that I could use Tasker to set up a custom Google Now command, so when I say something like "Computer, play music," the iMac will open iTunes or whatever and start playing music. (My current rig is that I have it set up in an apartment so that it'll play music and it's loud enough to cover the entire apartment.) If I could do that, I'm sure I could make it do other things. But I'm not sure where to start after the Tasker step. Any suggestions?
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Hi,
Just wondering if anyone knows of a remote control application that can Control Spotify that's running on a workstation - Over bluetooth or wireless...
Just like Salling Clicker does for iTunes - shame it don't work on Android!
Windows or Mac? On a Mac Spotify responds to the same shortcuts as iTunes, so I think an iTunes remote would work.
Windows
Sorry, forgot that detail..
Windows
Will give it a go though You never know...
Zero Luck :|
I'm using an app called Tunes Remote which is very handy.
Connects over your wireless network and lets you control iTunes, it brings back the album art as well to display on your phone.
Hello
I have installed Remote Tunes and everything went fine except that it doesn't find any tracks. It does displays the artists and albums, but when I do a search it keeps searching but doesn't return a result.
If I click play then ITunes starts playing the current selected playlist. It also shows the current track playing on my Hero. So the communication with Itunes is working.
I use WinXP and the latest ITunes 9.0.1. I also have 2500 tracks in my ITunes
Update : If I long press an artist or album I can play the "invisible" tracks.
Anybody any ideas?
Thanks in advance
How are you folks organizing your music. On SD card, external sd card, in folders..all mp3s in one folder? Mines kind of mixed at the moment where some are organized in folders and others are just here and there. What are some good tricks to sorting out everything especially automating...Im not in the mood to creating folders for individual albums and artists.
I use MediaMonkey (free version). I create playlists and have it export the playlists to my sdcard and it creates the folder structure of \sdcard\Music\<Playlist>\<ABC>\<Artist>\<Album>\<Track>. I have it setup this way so when I use my phone on my car stereo, I can sort music by playlist, but also find the music I want to listen to from that playlist. It's not the best, but it works.
If you aren't using your phone to hook up to a car stereo or something, get btunes. It looks and feels like the iPod app on iPhone/iPod Touch and reads .m3u playlists.
Well my music collection is organized into:
\Music\<Artist>\<Album>\<Track Number> - <Title>
Ex: Music\Megadeth\Rust In Peace\01 - Holy Wars.mp3
So I just made a folder on the phone called Music and dragged and dropped the artist folders I wanted onto it. Simple.
I used MediaMonkey way back when once to get it organized like that, and now I just do it manually each time I add an album or two.
asshopo said:
If you aren't using your phone to hook up to a car stereo or something, get btunes. It looks and feels like the iPod app on iPhone/iPod Touch and reads .m3u playlists.
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Why do you only suggest this one if you do not have your phone hooked up to the car stereo? Also, I'm curious what method you use to hook it up? I am thinking about getting a Captivate and using BT to connect to my head unit.
ScottyNuttz said:
Why do you only suggest this one if you do not have your phone hooked up to the car stereo? Also, I'm curious what method you use to hook it up? I am thinking about getting a Captivate and using BT to connect to my head unit.
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Meaning, if you were going to use it as a regular portable music device... at the office, jogging, etc, use btunes. If you are going to go bluetooth, apparently it btunes supports bluetooth commands (I don't have bluetooth on my car stereo so I haven't tried it).
I use my phone as a music device in the car via usb and at work as a regular music player with headphones. Using a 3.5mm audio jack sounds like crap with this phone so I stick with usb where the radio decodes the mp3.
EDIT: Just realized exactly what you were asking. btunes (for me) works the best because I come from having an origional iPod, iPod Touch and an iPhone. btunes looks and feels exactly like the ipod in terms of navigation.
I have always kept a meticulous Artist - Album folder structure on my computer (with the help of mediamonkey), and I run every new album through their auto-tag, so I can just drop anything on my SD card and the default music player does a good job with it.
I was thinking of making this a generic discussion thread on what the going media players are. There are a couple of subjects I'd like to bullet-point:
1) (HD) video players
2) Music players
3) music/video streamers
4) Remote control functions for media players
To elaborate, and I'll start of with asking questions so people can add their comments/suggestions/questions/et al to the thread. If we can keep it tidy maybe we can turn this into a sticky at some point.
1) I guess there are plenty of (HD)video players around. Could someone tell me which ones are the more popular ones currently?
2) Same question for music players
3) This one applies to both points 1+2 I guess: Are there any players that can stream directly from your shared music/video folders wirelessly?
How about iTunes integration? I'm kinda considering an Apple TV kind of approach, where you can play all your music and videos stored somewhere on your network. This may require additional hardware though if the gTab is to be used as remote. Though another option would be to hook up the gTab to your TV and have it function as the Apple TV, and use for example your iPod/iPhone, or better yet, your Android phone, as a remote.
Another option would be to use the Viewsonic VMP75 (or similar media player) for the desired functionality (web browsing/streaming music/streaming video on your TV) and use the gTab as remote control. However, I actually did look around and couldn't find an app that allows an android device or apple device to control the VMP75 from Viewsonic.
This leads us to the final point:
4) Remote control functions: Are there any apps that allow this unit to control for example iTunes
So any thoughts/ideas/opinions/etc will be welcome...
Can't answer much.
2) I've tried these so far:
winamp
mortplayer
simple player
I actually like the widget that comes with tntlite, since it just works and doesn't take up a lot of space. On my phone I like to have more than one program so my music listening doesn't throw off my audiobooks.
I haven't messed around with winamp much but it is supposed to have some type of music integration with winamp on windows. I think it will sync wirelessly somehow.
3)upnpplay, might not have the spelling correct. I've gotten a few things to play, but don't think the interface works too good on a larger screen. But again I will admit to not trying it much.
4) someone on here had a post on reconfiguring the XBMC remote for use with the bigger screen. I don't use itunes so can't comment on that at all.
Hope that helps.
I have tried winamp and realplayer beta. I like the realplayer better and it scans pictures/movies/music from a SDCARD2 (micro SD card).
Does anyone know of any apps that you can remote into the gtab from another pc? like for instance with logmein you can remote from you gtab or from a computer to another computer and control the screen remotely. Wondering if anyone has found any app that can do that but from Computer TO gtab. Like control the gtab screens with your computer.
or even if someone knows of anything that can be used as a remote to control the songs playing or the volume on the gtab from say your phone or computer.
I know there is a program called webkey that i've used to control my droid from my pc not sure if that would work ill give it a try tonight on the gtab.
There's also Paw Server, if you can get that from Market.
If you just want to control music, there's a Gmote app. It's not a full on RDP type thing, but gives you controls for playing media that's on the Android device.
Jim
P.S. I would think that Webkey, that you mentioned, would also work.
jimcpl said:
There's also Paw Server, if you can get that from Market.
If you just want to control music, there's a Gmote app. It's not a full on RDP type thing, but gives you controls for playing media that's on the Android device.
Jim
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Ill have to look into Paw Server, i know of gmote i use that all the time to control the music on my computer via my droid. I try my best not to store music directly on my gtab since the memory isnt too too big trying to save some room and there and not clog it up, but it would be awesome if i could control the songs playing say on pandora from my phone.
My current phone's headphone jack is broken, because of that I want to use my friends htc one. I used to own myself, but sold it a long time ago.
Anyway, I don't want to save my music on my friends phone. What I want to do is to open a playlist on my computer with a player like vlc or winamp, and then have the music play on my phone with the ability to control the current playlist. Is there a way to do this?