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Support of the Mac remote control.
It would be great to add the support of the Mac remote control. It is sooooooo useful.
I’m undecided
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Inappropriate?Yeah, that would be cool. In fact, it would be cool to support any PC/Mac based remote. Of course, support for media keys is probably all that is required, since the OS handles the commands from the remote (just like a wireless keyboard). Media Keys is something we want to work on for a future release.
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Inappropriate?i agree, i liked the player from the start. but when i fund out that the MAC-remote didn't work i felt handicapped.
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Inappropriate?Hoping for support, too
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Inappropriate?Um, I don't really think that "the company implemented this idea"... an Addon does not official support make.
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Inappropriate?Actually in this case it does. Kreeger, the author of the add-on, is a Songbird employee.
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Inappropriate?Aha, well that is different, then. Is there any way to just build it into the program? It might have some advantages, for example using the remote with an apple product that is running windows or linux, but still being able to use the control? I suppose this is more of a feature request at this point than a concern, but if it's easy to do that it might be helpful to some.
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Inappropriate?It wouldn't do any good - unless the hardware has support for the remote control (which, only Apple products do), it would just be code and feature bloat.
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Inappropriate?Well yes, but what I was saying is that many people run other operating systems on their macs, so while running those operating systems they might want to use the remote, but I realize the concern, maybe the addon could just be modified to install on all systems?
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Inappropriate?It relies on OS support for the remote control too.... the add-on uses Mac OS X APIs in order to hook into receiving calls generated by the remote. Getting it to work on any other OS would require a complete rewrite, which... to be honest, nobody else has requested.
This isn't to say it's impossible... but it's not something that is high priority for us.
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Inappropriate?Ah, I see. I wasn't aware it was that tightly integrated with the OS and yeah, it sort of seems like a waste now that I know that.
I’m informed.
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Inappropriate?It seems that you can get the mac remote support via an add on? Which add on is it? Where do I find it?
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