Android Music Pump XBMC Remote

(2012-08-12 19:20)Millencolin007 Wrote:  I have enabled this in my development build and will try this out a couple of days to see if the connection is more stable than using the normal wifi lock which existed in pre honeycomb.

Great! I'm sure you'll work it out :-)

There is an update in the play store.

- Made some changes to prevent music playback from stopping
- play/pause buttons in the notification bar for ICS and Jelly Bean
- Added movie and tv show images in now playing screen
- Fixed some force closes

Great work! I've always wanted to be able to stream music to different zones in my home. This has solved my problem. I actually just finished writing about it on my blog. You can check it out here:

http://www.insanehtpc.com/2012/08/18/how...lay-style/

Keep up the great work!

Wow! App of the year man! Seriously amazing work.

Within 30 seconds of reading this thread I am streaming music to my phone. Works so perfectly. Just when I thought it couldn't get better, I realized I don't even have my WIFI turned on. I always enter in my xbmc box with its dyndns address, and it just worked, first try.

Streaming quality and consistency is perfect over 4G.

How much harder is to to get it to stream video?

(2012-08-19 05:10)vinistois Wrote:  Wow! App of the year man! Seriously amazing work.

Within 30 seconds of reading this thread I am streaming music to my phone. Works so perfectly. Just when I thought it couldn't get better, I realized I don't even have my WIFI turned on. I always enter in my xbmc box with its dyndns address, and it just worked, first try.

Streaming quality and consistency is perfect over 4G.

How much harder is to to get it to stream video?

The problem with video (and audio as well) is that the stream which is returned by xbmc is not seekable and does not play at all or only a couple of seconds on android media players.

(2012-08-19 04:11)ajcast5201 Wrote:  Great work! I've always wanted to be able to stream music to different zones in my home. This has solved my problem. I actually just finished writing about it on my blog. You can check it out here:

http://www.insanehtpc.com/2012/08/18/how...lay-style/

Keep up the great work!

Thanks for the review ;-)

In step 1) of your setup guide you can also enable "announce this services to other systems via Zeroconf" then music pump can autodetected the running xbmc instances and you don't have to manually configure it.

Streaming the same song to multiple xbmc instances is not something I am going to implement in the app. I think there are some addons like XSqueeze which let you to stream the same song to multiple xbmc installations.

Thanks for the info! I'll make those changes.

An update is waiting to be published in the play store

Some new things:
- Support for Raspberry Pi. You have to enable "Raspberry Pi Mode" in the settings
- File browser for music / video / files. If you add musicdb:// and videodb:// as file source (go into the file manager inside xbmc and add the two sources) you are able to browse Movie tags, Movie sets, Recently added... the way you are used to do it from xbmc itself
- Added some additional buttons to the remote.
- Addes support to browse through your music and video addons and play / queue items (does not work on all addons but addons like youtube, radio, vimeo, vevo, ... seem to work fine)
- Added support to play a playlist in party mode
- Browse your upnp/dlna sources visible from xbmc and start playback on xbmc
- Probably other changes not listed...

Hi there,

just wanted to thank you for this app. I have been using XBMC headless for music listening for some time and this makes it perfect. Also with a screen to be finally able to browse addons from the remote is a huge plus.

I'm facing some issues with the queue not working properly on Eden. On the Android side i'm using ICS on a Nook Color. Any ideas? XBMC would play one or two songs but then suddenly stop though other songs have been added to the queue.

MB

Edit: It appears to be an issue on nightlies. I have Eden with PVR but possibly this is already the reason?

The play queue for music is managed on the android device and not on xbmc itself. Since I don't want to poll xbmc for the playback status every second the app relies on the notifications (play, pause, stop,...) received from xbmc to detect that a song finished in order to play the next one. On some xbmc builds the notifications are broken which may be the case with the build you are using.