RiverMote - iPhone/iPod Touch Client for J. River Media Center

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RiverMote is a J. River Media Center Client for the iPhone/iPod Touch and is a native iPhone application that allows you to control J. River Media Center anywhere in your house. I had never heard of JRMC until about a month ago when someone turned me on to it. It is incredibly powerful and has the concept of zones that many other media players do not have. I know Apple has Remote for ITunes but the JRMC user community wanted something similar for controlling J. River Media Center from their iPhones or iPod Touches. Controlling different zones of the house, playing, pausing, skipping, and selecting playlists all from the convenience of their devices. Thus I decided to create RiverMote to hopefully allow people to unlock the true power of J. River Media Center. RiverMote consists of two pieces...a server piece which runs on your PC and the client piece which runs on your iPhone or iPod Touch. The server piece included here is called RiverMote.exe and is critical to using RiverMote on the iPhone.

The purpose of this program is simple: to allow control of your J. River Media Center from your iPhone/iPod Touch with the touch of a finger.

Don't be a slave to your PC anymore, rock out from anywhere in your house!

Requirements

iPhone OS 2.0 or Higher
iPod Touch OS 2.0 or Higher
WI-FI Internet Connection (does not work over 3G)
J. River Media Center 12.0 or higher running on your PC. Don't know what J. River Media Center is? Click Here
RiverMote Server running. Run this EXE instead of the normal J. River Media Center EXE. Download RiverMote Server Here
See the QuickStart Guide for instructions on getting set up and Connection Issues FAQ if you have any problems

Why use RiverMote iPhone Client?

Control J. River Media Center from your iPhone/iPod Touch.
No "line-of-sight" needed to control J. River Media Center which may be stored in a closet or somewhere esle out of the way in your house. Control multiple zones from one spot, a unique feature of J. River Media Center!
While Apple has provided an iPhone remote for ITunes...what about the rest of us that don't use ITunes but want to control J. River Media Center?
You are already using J. River Media Center so now you can take it to the next level.
Hosting a party? DJ it it right from your iPhone/iPod Touch without your partygoers getting their dirty little fingers on your playlist. Ruining your mojo!

What does it look like?

When the application is running you can control J. River Media Center from RiverMote with Player Controls play, pause, stop, shuffle, repeat, mute etc. Single tap the album cover to Play/Pause.

When no device is connected the tray icon will be RED. When you connect with your iPhone or iPod Touch the icon will change the BLUE so you know you are connected.

No connection....

Connected!

From the Settings

application on the iPhone just enter the IP Address and Port of the Windows PC running RiverMote Server you want to connect to.

Navigate your current playlist and immediately start playing any song you select from your playlist.

Turn your phone to the side for cool landscape view. From here you can see song progress and rate songs by clicking on the stars.

You can load any one of your Smartlists from the Smartlist tab. It will immediate load and start playing the first song of that playlist. Due to constraints on resources on the device, we will only load a maximum of 1000 songs into the playlist.

Control any or all of your Zones in RiverMote. It works you are watching a movie or playing music. You can also switch between display modes if you prefer Theater mode for watching Movies or Display mode for playing Music.

The info window just gives you some details about RiverMote Client. You can click the email address to send me an email or bug report.