A friend of mine wants to use the HTPC for, well, everything, including playing music over his soundsystem (I mean instead of, say, using a dedicated Squeezebox or some UPnP Player). It would be nice if browsing (and playing or enqueuing) the music works like on an iPod, iPhone, or like in the 'Vanilla Music Player' on Android, if you know that App.
[Android] aMPdroid - Android MediaPortal Client (2 Viewers)
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A friend of mine wants to use the HTPC for, well, everything, including playing music over his soundsystem (I mean instead of, say, using a dedicated Squeezebox or some UPnP Player). It would be nice if browsing (and playing or enqueuing) the music works like on an iPod, iPhone, or like in the 'Vanilla Music Player' on Android, if you know that App.
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check out AudioGalaxy for now if you want streaming music from your PC to your Android device.
I'm hoping that this is something that ampdroid will be able to do as well as this app does, sometime in the future
Do I need to do anything else than check out the code from SVN and build it if I want to try it out? The reason I ask is because I tried that and got a build error that I fixed (in the manifest), but I got FC when clicking on any of the buttons using the emulator.
Hi, what software did you use to develop this android app??
I need to make a dead easy app that reads a bluetooth device and displays a value so im looking into start learning how to program android.
thanks
I need to make a dead easy app that reads a bluetooth device and displays a value so im looking into start learning how to program android.
thanks
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You shouldn't have gotten a build error in the first place (What was the error?). Without at least a logcat output I can't guess what went wrong with your build.
It's pretty easy to setup a development environment with eclipse, see Installing the SDK | Android Developers
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I think what people want most in the music section is to be able to control mediaportal without actually having to turn on the monitors.
So you should be able to:
- control the running track (seek, start/stop, volume, ...)
- browse the collection and start a track
- manage (create/delete/edit) playlists
- have a nice now-playing screen
Some additional functions:
- preview (stream) the track on the device
- download a track/album to the device
More ideas?
It was something in the manifest file. Don't remember exactly, but I think it was referencing an activity that it could not find, so I removed that entry. I will have a closer look when I get back home, and also look at the logcat output.
EDIT: Eclipse complains about "Class com.mediaportal.ampdroid.activities.StatusBarActivity does not exist" in AndroidManifest.xml.
Indeed, that's how he would use it as well.
As for additional suggestions: regarding the browsing, it should work like in the aforementioned players. For instance, if you have 3 tabs like in Vanilla Music Player (I think the other Android remote for MP has it too), Artists, Albums, Tracks, if you are on the Artist Tab you can either Enqueue (or play directly) all tracks from that Artist by clicking on it (or long clicking), or you can choose to select that Artist and "go deeper" and then only see the Albums of that artist and so on.
In Vanilla Music Player it works like this: If you click directly on an Artist, it plays (or enqueues, depending on the current setting) all tracks from that artist directly. But for each artist you also have a "go deeper" icon. If you click on that, it will go into the Album tab and filter the Albums according by Artist and so on.
I would love if you could do it like in Vanilla Music Player, just have a look at it
.hey I wonder if it is possible to get TV steaming, than just to control the TV server. all communication to the TV server seem to be there. but maybe it's a lot of work to get it to receive data stremingen.
it would be really nice to be able to use the android as a TV client instead of HTPC
it would be really nice to be able to use the android as a TV client instead of HTPC