The Troll-Range » bluetooth http://blog.trollgod.org.uk Ghworg's wibblings and geek projects. Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:31:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Control your Music player via bluetooth http://blog.trollgod.org.uk/2009/05/control-your-music-player-via-bluetooth/ http://blog.trollgod.org.uk/2009/05/control-your-music-player-via-bluetooth/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 22:36:28 +0000 Ghworg http://blog.trollgod.org.uk/?p=341 I don’t need no steenking iphone with its fancy apps. I have a fairly low end phone, a Motorola RIZR Z3 but it can run Java J2ME apps. The other day I found an awesome one that lets me control my music player MPD via bluetooth, with a nice little GUI and everything (it . . . → Read More: Control your Music player via bluetooth]]> I don’t need no steenking iphone with its fancy apps. I have a fairly low end phone, a Motorola RIZR Z3 but it can run Java J2ME apps. The other day I found an awesome one that lets me control my music player MPD via bluetooth, with a nice little GUI and everything (it also apparently works for XMMS and Winamp).

I was going to twitter about it, but it is so frickin awesome that it deserves more than 140 characters about it. The app is called JAM SE and it looks like it will run on just about any phone that supports J2ME and has bluetooth.

There is a Debian package for the computer-side which makes installing on Debian/Ubuntu a doddle. For others you can grab the program from its own site Bemused-MPD bridge.

With a little bit of extra work I can even get it to control the other music playing computers in the house (all running MPD), mpdproxy on the laptop with the bluetooth connection will redirect all MPD clients to my currently active server.

It is so cool to be able to control my music playback from anywhere in the house just by whipping out my phone, geektastic. :-)

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