Topic: JRemote for Android -- Now available (Read 274936 times)

stealer · « **Reply #450 on:** November 09, 2015, 06:00:21 pm »

I had flipped through the 9 pages and pretty sure this question had not been asked/answered.
If yes, I am truly sorry I missed it.......
Can JRemote for Android interface with a Mac mini running JRiver21 for Mac.?
..if not, can Gizmo on Android phone interface with the above Mac.

Giving up my iPad in place of Samsung Tab.

Any1 is currently in this configuration?

JimH · « **Reply #451 on:** November 10, 2015, 12:47:31 am »

JRemote for Android will work with MC on any OS that MC runs on.

park · « **Reply #452 on:** November 10, 2015, 09:05:59 pm »

Feature request: Always show the top level media categories in the app drawer.

Castius · « **Reply #453 on:** November 30, 2015, 04:38:26 pm »

Just curious what is the state of jremote development?
Can we get a list of upcoming features or know limitations? Similar to how you handle MC development.

Thanks

Allen Brier · « **Reply #454 on:** December 02, 2015, 05:30:26 pm »

What is the difference between JRemote and Gizmo?

JimH · « **Reply #455 on:** December 02, 2015, 05:40:40 pm »

$10. Gizmo is free.

laerm · « **Reply #456 on:** December 02, 2015, 09:11:15 pm »

Quote from: Allen Brier on December 02, 2015, 05:30:26 pm

What is the difference between JRemote and Gizmo?

For me, it comes down to two things:
1. Play Doctor works on Gizmo
2. Playlists can be edited from JRemote

AndrewFG · « **Reply #457 on:** December 03, 2015, 05:45:54 am »

Quote from: laerm on December 02, 2015, 09:11:15 pm

For me, it comes down to two things:
1. Play Doctor works on Gizmo
2. Playlists can be edited from JRemote

Play Doctor works on JRemote too..

laerm · « **Reply #458 on:** December 03, 2015, 10:54:09 am »

Quote from: AndrewFG on December 03, 2015, 05:45:54 am

Play Doctor works on JRemote too..

Not to the device. At least, not to my Android phone.

park · « **Reply #459 on:** December 04, 2015, 10:25:08 am »

Also, no cast to chromecast on jremote

mwillems · « **Reply #460 on:** December 04, 2015, 12:08:43 pm »

Also no local cache-ahead on JRemote (i.e. gizmo will let you cache 10 songs in advance, so you can "fill up" while still on wifi)

DivBy0 · « **Reply #461 on:** December 22, 2015, 09:28:05 am »

Quote from: mwillems on December 04, 2015, 12:08:43 pm

Also no local cache-ahead on JRemote (i.e. gizmo will let you cache 10 songs in advance, so you can "fill up" while still on wifi)

I love that cache feature in Gizmo, but don't forget JRemote supposedly can stream native audio format to phone (ie: 24bit 192kHz flac, so I am told). Gizmo will always first transcode to mp3, then send to phone. So if you have an unlimited data plan and a high quality phone DAC capable of quality transcoding's, no need to buy a Pono from Neil.....for me this is a big benefit...well maybe more so in up coming years.

blizzard · « **Reply #462 on:** December 29, 2015, 11:38:17 pm »

Hi all

I am new here so hello to everyone! I purchased JRemote about 4 months ago through google playstore and my google account. I have since changed to a new phone but google does not find JRemote as one of my purchased apps so what now as I dont want to have to pay for it again.
Thank you in advance
Blizzard

JimH · « **Reply #463 on:** December 29, 2015, 11:53:56 pm »

The Google store decides whether the app will run on each device. We can't change that.

I'll move this to a new thread. I removed your duplicate post.

stanzani · « **Reply #464 on:** December 30, 2015, 02:54:57 am »

hello
I am a newbie about JRiver so here it is a stupid question: launching JRemote (on Android) how can I exit the program (of course I can going in the application stack and kill it from here but I am asking if there is a smoother way out)
thanks

JimH · « **Reply #465 on:** December 30, 2015, 03:08:52 am »

On Android, you don't exit programs. I find it a little odd, but that's what it is.

stanzani · « **Reply #466 on:** December 30, 2015, 04:56:23 am »

true but, at least, you can hide them (even if they stay alive in the application stack). I can't hide JRemore, though ...)

Hendrik · « **Reply #467 on:** December 30, 2015, 04:58:56 am »

Just press the Home button or the Back button a number of times and you'll get out of JRemote, and if nothing is playing it'll just "hide" itself. If something is playing, its specifically designed to install itself into the notification area.

nebulix · « **Reply #468 on:** January 04, 2016, 07:13:16 pm »

Are you able to view live television channels in JRemote? So JRiver with a TV tuner card and creating a Media View for Gizmo?

Daveyravey · « **Reply #469 on:** January 21, 2016, 02:16:17 am »

any idea when we will get chrome cast support?

somebike · « **Reply #470 on:** January 25, 2016, 09:26:58 am »

I have noticed that JRemote often does not recognize a zone (media renderer) that is obviously visible to JRiver Media Center as I can play to the device using Bubble remote. When this happens, Gizmo also does not recognize the zone.

AndrewFG · « **Reply #471 on:** January 25, 2016, 02:12:20 pm »

Firewall or router issue.

somebike · « **Reply #472 on:** January 25, 2016, 02:21:32 pm »

Quote from: AndrewFG on January 25, 2016, 02:12:20 pm

Firewall or router issue.

Thanks for your reply. Can you elaborate? And why is it that whenever this happens, it is always visible to Bubble remote?

JimH · « **Reply #473 on:** January 25, 2016, 03:40:08 pm »

Different port?

Open 52199.

somebike · « **Reply #474 on:** January 25, 2016, 09:36:54 pm »

Quote from: JimH on January 25, 2016, 03:40:08 pm

Different port?

Open 52199.

I will try that. Thanks.

Reinhard · « **Reply #475 on:** February 03, 2016, 11:10:13 am »

When streaming FLAC-files from JRiver Server to my renderer via WLAN, is it right I don't get full FLAC-quality? Music sounds a bit "narrow" as with 128kbps mp3, although I chose 320 kbps in JRemote.

Hendrik · « **Reply #476 on:** February 03, 2016, 11:13:59 am »

Quote from: Reinhard on February 03, 2016, 11:10:13 am

When streaming FLAC-files from JRiver Server to my renderer via WLAN, is it right I don't get full FLAC-quality? Music sounds a bit "narrow" as with 128kbps mp3, although I chose 320 kbps in JRemote.

If you just use JRemote to control streaming from MC to a DLNA renderer, then the quality settings in JRemote do not affect the playback, you need to configure MC itself.

Reinhard · « **Reply #477 on:** February 03, 2016, 11:58:29 am »

I chose "PCM 24-bit" and "Original" file Settings (FLAC) in Settings of DLNA Server but sound via "air" (WLAN) ist not the same quality as directly out of JRiver MC. Anyway thanks for the hint

somebike · « **Reply #478 on:** February 08, 2016, 07:45:03 am »

Try going to media network and configuring your DLNA settings. They do not necessarily default to your MC settings.

This2ShallPass · « **Reply #479 on:** February 15, 2016, 04:38:55 pm »

Often, I want to play ALL the tracks from a particular artist. I can search the artist on my Android device, but I can't multi-select the albums I see by the artist and choose to play them (random, for instance). Will that functionality come one day? Maybe a "Files" icon under "Audio" would suffice, when the search function could work there.

blgentry · « **Reply #480 on:** February 16, 2016, 08:11:03 am »

^ In Gizmo, if you do a search, one of the matches will be Artist. When you click on the result, you get a menu with a few choices. One is "play", which seems to do a semi-random ordering of full albums. Another is Shuffle, which adds all songs in a full random order (not by album). I actually think that the Gizmo results aren't very useful because you can NOT drill down from search results to find an album or a song. You just get the menu.

I'll bet we could build you a view that does what you want though. Displays Artists, and when you click the artist, displays all songs from all albums. Optionally ordered randomly by album (but sorted within album). If that would be helpful, I think it would be easy to do.

Brian.

This2ShallPass · « **Reply #481 on:** February 16, 2016, 10:45:20 am »

That makes me just a tad giddy... As I start to imagine a life with an Id, and no laptop interface, I'm paying a bit more attention to what I'd use to control MC, and that's my Android phone...

raduschka · « **Reply #482 on:** February 16, 2016, 09:35:27 pm »

Hello, I love jremote from my ios days. So I installed it on my Android Lg G4 smartphone.
Everything seems to work well, except that for an unknown reason, when playing back on the device (the LG) albums are treated as if there was no .cue file. Actually, on one hand all the tracks are DISPLAYED accurately as a list (name and duration etc), but when I select any track the whole .flac file will be played back from the beginning and the only way to advance through it is to move the cursor manually. I have albums that are stored as individual .flac files and some that are stored as .cue+.flac. I believe this problem affects only the latteré I also believe that the problem hits after a certain period of correct functioning. Reconnecting to the server possibly resets the situation and then bang.
Thanks
Raduschka
ps: faulty albums on the device work flawlessly on the pc (remotely controlled through JRemote or otherwise)

lepa · « **Reply #483 on:** February 20, 2016, 06:10:40 am »

Any plans for JRemote? Would like to see picture support, better caching (free Gizmo works better). There are also some bugs that I would like to see fixed. For example playing now doesn't get populated always especially when using Search to add music to playlist.

Hendrik · « **Reply #484 on:** February 22, 2016, 04:11:58 am »

We've just pushed a new version of JRemote for Android that adds ChromeCast and ChromeCastAudio support. Please be aware that this is the initial version of ChromeCast support, so if you encounter any problems with it, please do report them. Those devices can be a bit finicky at times.
You can connect to a cast device on the navigation views from the action bar. The Playing Now screen unfortunately didn't cooperate and didn't get a cast icon yet, but I didn't want that to hold up the release, so it'll get one in the next version.

As always, it'll be a couple hours before the version is approved and available for all devices.

Rodger3876 · « **Reply #485 on:** February 22, 2016, 08:12:40 pm »

Thanks for the Chromecast, Great product, Testing & working great.

JimH · « **Reply #486 on:** February 22, 2016, 09:31:39 pm »

Thank you for the report.

Ekpen · « **Reply #487 on:** February 22, 2016, 10:03:54 pm »

I was able to watch Lionel Richie - Live in Paris and Celine Dion Live in Vegas concerts back to back with no freezing or glitch. Video quality excellent on my Sony XBR75850C 4k TV.
I am using Samsung Galaxy Note 3.

Thanks for updating JRemote.

George

jmone · « **Reply #488 on:** February 22, 2016, 11:23:50 pm »

So how does "casting work" is it:
- JRemote sends a link to the content to the Chromecast that then pulls a stream directly from MC,
or
- JRemote acts a a bridge with the content being sent via the device running JRemote from MC to the Chromecast

I hope it is the first, and if so;
- What determines the Format, Bitrate, etc etc?
- What protocol does it use (eg if it DLNA based, how on earth does it support multi room audio sync)?

Thanks
Nathan

Hendrik · « **Reply #489 on:** February 26, 2016, 04:07:32 am »

The cast device just gets a URL to the media file from JRemote, using the same quality settings as set in JRemote at the time (sans untouched, as that doesn't seem to work very well).

Note that only one track is currently sent to the Cast device, so JRemote needs to keep running to switch tracks at the end.

Google Cast uses its own protocol. It just accesses the media through MCWS (ie. HTTP).

jmone · « **Reply #490 on:** February 26, 2016, 06:24:20 pm »

Thanks.

This2ShallPass · « **Reply #491 on:** February 29, 2016, 02:31:55 pm »

Wow, that's pretty cool! This opens up some possibilities in my setup, thank you!

The only glitch I can report (only using for Chromecast audio) is that if I start music on my phone and then choose to cast, I have to hit start again - the Chromecast seems not to pick up the already-in-progress music, as other services do.

This2ShallPass · « **Reply #492 on:** February 29, 2016, 02:34:38 pm »

Quick question: Is it possible to interrupt anything playing on "Connected Media" using JRemote? My wife always has Pandora on, using MC on our server. If I want to change what's playing, I have to interface with the server directly, I see no way of stopping it from JRemote.

dgm1960 · « **Reply #493 on:** March 07, 2016, 05:10:58 am »

Just a quick congratulations and a thank you for JRemote for Android. Works flawlessly on my Samsung tablet, and the interface is fantastic. If this is to be the basis for Pretty Face, I think you will have a winner.

JimH · « **Reply #494 on:** March 07, 2016, 06:53:41 am »

Thank you.

This2ShallPass · « **Reply #495 on:** March 07, 2016, 07:52:38 am »

hear hear!

Arcturus · « **Reply #496 on:** March 09, 2016, 05:14:47 pm »

Have the ratings not working issue been fixed yet? I really miss that feature, Same problem with Gizmo. Was using that heavily, whenever a song I really liked played.

JimH · « **Reply #497 on:** March 09, 2016, 05:43:23 pm »

Do you have authentication turned on at the server? It's required.

This2ShallPass · « **Reply #498 on:** March 10, 2016, 09:48:41 am »

I'm experiencing a half-second moment of silence immediately after a song starts (every song) using JRemote on Android through Chrome Audio. So, One second into each song, a pause, then resumption.

Anyone else?

Hendrik · « **Reply #499 on:** March 10, 2016, 09:53:39 am »

The Chromecast Audio device uses WiFi to fetch the audio directly from your PC running Media Center. You could try to make sure the WiFi and the PC are strong enough, it sounds like it might be buffering.

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