Songbird Remote not working

I installed all the latest editions this morning from the website. I clicked the "i" and its not showing and "Songbirds." What port is it trying to connect through, although it shouldn't be an issue as they are in the same network/router. It does the same for either the windows or Linux versions though.

The port is currently 10666 but that could possibly change in the future.
Are you running firewall software on each machine?

Thanks. I don't have any firewalls running on any machine inside the network. It started working a little bit ago though. I didn't change any settings or anything, but its working now on both machines. I wonder if something was down in the network I didn't catch. Anyway thanks for the help and its nice to have a way to remote control my music since its mostly on Linux.

Great, glad to hear its all working.

excellent !!!
but it worked the first time but after a few minutes, it doesnt work... :(
the iphone can not connect to the computer.
any ideas ?

yop :)
it would be easier if you'd have speak french :)

Ok, i run windows xp sp3, songbird 1.0.0, i download songbird remote today so i think it's the last version. i've an iPhone3G 2.2

after a long time the remote re-works, but a few minutes after, it doesnt work... again.
i tried restarting the iphone, no effect.

hey, i've just restarting songbird and it works now... !!! great !!!

but i guess in five or 15mins the problem will re appear...

for information, the application blocks with the message "connecting" (just after "looking for my computer")

ok, it's re-blocked... when the iPhone keybord is locked, and when i unlock it, it stop working... i use alicebox in wifi and my PC is connected with ethernet cable

it re-works instantanely when i restart songbird and songbird remote

(in fact, when the keybord of the phone is locked, it can works when it's always connected to the wifi... i think that in order to save the battery, the iphone lose the wifi connexion after a while... and it try to recover it, the problem appear

Hi,

I had the same problem on Ubuntu 8.10 with a Songbird Night Build version for Beta testing purposes. My Iphone was connection for ever. I solved this problem by just start playing a song in Songbird. I realized in my task manager that Songbird was in sleeping mode when not being used. You can solve this by just playing a song.

Regards,
Rogier

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There is a beta release available with playlist and album art support.

Email your iPhone identifier use iTunes, click on serial # to get 40 digit hex identifier string displayed (copy command works, you don't have to type it).

Copy and past into email to sBirdRemoteBeta24 at 779Media dot com

Also please email your songbird environment information as well (Operating System and bit size (32 or 64) )

Please try a new extension at

http://www.779media.com/SongbirdRemot...

and please post how it goes. Thanks.

I had the same issue. A hot tip would be for you to be very prominent about making sure the port 10666 is open to the PC you want to remote as all have either a software FireWall or a router to provide WiFi with that need to forward/open this port. It worked well as far as the default functionality counts. Pack the app full of features like Ajax-like search and genre sorting of songs etc. and you've got yourself a paying customer.

snuttemjuk what OS were you using?

Hey. No worries. I resolved the issue myself and issue was with my WiFi Router with built in firewall stopping any traffic over any other port than those I've manually allowed. If you're curious to know, I'm using Windows XP 64-bit version. I can't even begin to tell you what a hassle it was to install Itunes on it, having to hack the .cab-files etc to work around the built in limitations of the installer. This works like a charm though. Keep it up.