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More details........please.....
LinkRemote will come with the next LinkPlayer release... It needs LinkPlayer to run on the Mac. It automatically connects to LinkPlayer though Wifi.
It works as a 2 way remote for the Beoport. And you can basically do everything you can do with LinkPlayer, but remotely.
Once you start it it displays the sources that are available to be played through the Beoport (same as in the source menu of the on-screen remote).
Once you have selected your source, the remote buttons appear. You click on "Sources" to come back to the source selection.
Song titles, etc... appear in the navigation bar. For other sources, it would display DTV 13 for example.
The buttons will dim in real time if not enabled, like the on-screen version.
The top right button bring the numeric keypad with a nice animation.
And you guessed it, the bottom slider is for the volume.
MENU, EXIT and MUTE work like on the Beo4.
LIST allow selection of rarely used buttons like TURN, RECORD, TRACK, REPEAT, RANDOM, SOUND, STORE.
Now a cool feature... any LinkPlayer on-screen menu (PC, Photo Albums, Web bookmarks, EyeTV Recording...) is pushed to the iPhone screen and you can scroll and select an entry without having to use the arrow keys and GO.
I am planning to add more menus to exiting sources in LinkPlayer to make use of that feature.
Now the cherry on the icing of the cake. Turn you phone on the side and the remote buttons are replace by a view similar to the full screen mode.
No buttons... no problem, in Landscape mode, swipe your finger on the screen horizontally to navigate between songs and vertically between playlists.
Tap once to Play, twice to stop...
Linkplayer is amazing as is the amount of work it must have taken.........now it is even more amazing!
Phil, this is a very exciting development. Thanks for your invaluable efforts. But if I may opine...
1. In my particular case, I have limited interest in directly controlling the Mac Mini attached to the BeoPort via an IR eye.
2. I control N.MUSIC and N.RADIO from ML rooms via several Beo4s strategically placed troughout the house.
3. Beo4 provides outstanding control of N.MUSIC and N.RADIO sources via LinkPlayer/ML.
4. The real issue I face is the lack of sufficient visual feedback in linked rooms... i.e., BS 3000 and BL 3500 have tiny 8-character displays which make it difficult to navigate through extensive music libraries. This has forced me to set up an old iPhone (in iPod Touch-mode) with Remote.App to work as an aide when I need additional feedback functionality to navigate playlists, search for specific music, etc. The issue of course is that Remote.App's interface is dramatically different from Beo4 and furthermore Remote.App is ugly. I guess I would hope for an iPhone equivalent to this (without the ugly blue iPhone VNC client buttons, of course):
5. In addition to 4. above, a few more items on the wishlist:
(a) the possibility of rating with stars a song
(b) the possibility of doing a search by author, composer, song, etc.
(c) most importantly, the possibility of seeding the current song so that iTunes generates a Genius list based on the current song!
Warmest regards,
And that's it!
It does everything that you can do with LinkPlayer when on the mac. It can completely replace an IR eye on the Beoport.
It will always behave as if you are located in the room where the Beoport is, even if you are in another room. You cannot switch on, or control the volume of speakers that are not connected to the Beoport...
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