Play

Fully functional Apple remote control

Bug #341740 reported by Stephen F. Booth on 2009-03-12

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Play	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The Apple remote control only works with Play if Play is the active foreground window (example: the remote won't work if the screensaver or a web borwser is the current active application).
Even if Play is the active application, only the "back" and "forward" buttons will work. The "play/pause" and "volume up/down" buttons don't work.
One more thing. The "back" and "forward" buttons act in an abnormal way. Instead to go to the very previous or next track, when those two buttons are pressed, Play skips one track and plays the next song in either way.

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bubbalouie (ryan-gossink) wrote on 2009-07-05:

Same problem here, it is the sole issue with what is truly a great program. If skipping etc worked properly & play stole the remote regardless of what app had focus I'd say it'd be as close to perfect as any one is likely to get with such a media player.

If there is any testing I can do or anything else to help solve this I'd be more than happy to help. For what it's worth I am running leopard on a 13" aluminium macbook.

Cheers

Ryan

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bubbalouie (ryan-gossink) wrote on 2009-07-05:

AppleRemote.m Edit (5.1 KiB, text/plain)

I've made a small tweak to the ThirdParty/RemoteControlWrapper/AppleRemote.m file from the bazaar package, I removed the line which sent a second button press event (around line 85 off hand). I've attached the relevant file, objective C isn't my thing though so I am unsure of how to make play 'steal' the remote regardless of which app has focus though.

Cheers

Ryan

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locojohn (loco) wrote on 2009-10-26:

Confirm the problem on my MacBook (Feb2008) running Mac OS X 10.5.8. Play/Pause button doesn't work and the rest works only when Play is active app.