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iTiR - 1.0

inter-user remote for iTunes

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All Time:	(3.0)
Version 1.0:	(3.0)
Selected Version:	1.0
Release Date:	2003-12-10
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 1.0):	210
Downloads (all versions):	1,565
Price:	$1.00

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Product Description:

iTunes interuser-Remote (iTiR) was written to get around a problem with iTunes and Fast User Switching. When Fast User Switching is used, if one of the users has iTunes open, then the music is paused when that user is not the active user, and the other users can not launch their own copies of iTunes. This can be very frustrating if you are switching users often, but still want to listen to your music.
iTiR is made up of two applications. The "iTiRbase" application and the "iTiRremote" application. The iTiRbase MUST be running in the same user space as iTunes, and it acts sort of like an IR repeater for a TV. Basically, it captures the commands you give to iTiRremote, and passes them on to iTunes. iTiRremote is the interface that you use in all the other user spaces to control iTunes (or to quit iTunes so you can run your own copy).

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3 or greater
iTunes 4 or greater
Multiple users on a system and a desire to listen to must across users
local 'unix group' named iTiRusers (see readme)

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.0:
Overall Rating:	(3.0)	Features:	(3.0)	Support:	(2.0)
Ease of Use:	(1.0)	Quality / Stability:	(4.0)	Price:	(3.0)

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Pause is not pause, but stop - Version: 1.5, 1/9/2004 08:48AM PST

sjonke

I like the concept, but one problem is that the Play/Pause button does not pause, but rather stops. Hitting play again then doesn't continue from where you left off, but starts over again from whatever playlist is currently selected in iTunes, which is not necessarily (and probably isn't) the same as the playlist you had selected in iTiR. Just make it really pause instead of stop and that will solve that issue (i.e. use: tell application "iTunes" to playpause, or individually "play" and "pause" instead of "play" and "stop")

Not for the faint of heart - Version: 1.0, 12/10/2003 05:42PM PST

- - e r i k - -

Well it works. And that's about all I can say about it. The installation procedure requires you to add your users to a group and the documentation just states that you have to, not HOW to do it (it's a rather involved procedure using NetInfo). The GUI just provides you with play back and next, hiding all other options in a menu.

I see this more of a proof of concept than anything. It needs a serious overhall in installation, documentation and not to mention GUI. It should be possible to create a GUI for the remote that closely resembles iTunes. Heck, even my cell-phone can do that via Salling Clicker. And for the love of holyness, make the base application a background app either by making a daemon out of it or just a faceless app.

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Not for the faint of heart