Idea: Rdio remote control
After a recent hard drive failure I switched from iTunes to Rdio and I’ve really enjoyed the experience so far, and not just because I have friends that work there.
In addition to a few artists not on Rdio, I’m really missing the ability to control the music playing on my home stereo from my phone. Apple’s ‘Remote’ app worked brilliantly - I could pause the music as I’m leaving the house and skip bad tracks from the dinner table. As it stands, I have to pull out my laptop, share the screen of the mac mini playing the music and change it up there. #firstworldproblems
Ideally such an app would allow me to:
- discover devices nearby capable of being controlled
- play / pause / skip
- browse my collection and everything else available
- add stuff to my queue
Unfortunately, without some help from the Rdio guys it’s not even really possible for someone else to build this - the mac client isn’t yet Applescript-able and there are god-knows how many other platforms Rdio runs on and few of of them have any programatic control.
Update: it looks like the Rdio app is now Applescript-scriptable
