Tunes Remote Settings

For an introduction to Tunes Remote, please read: Tunes Remote Introduction

The following settings can be done for Tunes Remote.

Pairing and Status

Pair
In the drop down box your mobile device should appear when you use the pairing function from the mobile device.  Press the Pair button to complete the pairing process and to get your mobile device connected.

Tunes Remote Status
In this field the status of the Add-on is displayed. If there is an error it will be displayed here.

Settings

Songs are only added to "My Requests" Request List
If your mobile device support playlist editing like iPod/iPhone then you can edit your request list using the playlist editing. When you set this option, your song selections will always be added to your request list. No matter if you use playlist editing or not. This prevents that your current AlbumPlayer playlist is broken by song selections. See also Song Request Manager  .  

Hide Playlists (to prevent accidently loading)
When you select just one song from a playlist in iTunes, it has the annoying behavior to load the whole playlist. This might be unwanted, because you can accidently clear the Now Playing playlist while not intending to do that. Set this option when you dont want playlists to be loaded. All playlists will be hidden then except your Request List and the Now Playing playlist. 

User Permissions for player control and editing playlists.
This option you can use to give yourself more control on the AlbumPlayer then your guests. Useful when running a party.

  • Everybody can control and edit - Everybody can control the AlbumPlayer by his mobile device
  • Only one can control and edit - Only the device listed in the field to the right, will have full control. All other devices are limited to add songs only to their own Request List. More info about the Request List see also Song Request Manager . The listed device is identified by the IPAddress. Just connect first only your own device, to find its address in the drop down box.
  • Nobody can control and edit - Everybody is limited to use only songs to their own Request List.

Category Assignments

In the Remote application of the iPhone and iPod you have several buttons to show albums based on a category like Music Videos, Movies, Composers. In the AlbumPlayer you can assign what type of albums to show when you press these buttons.

Composer
You can select here to show all your composers, but you not limited to that. If you dont use the composer attribute often, you might decide to show here for instance your Custom Collections instead.

Music Videos, Movies, Rentals, Audiobooks, Podcasts, iTunes U
You can assign here one of the Album Types. In that way you can for instance easily show all your Vido Clips, Bootlegs when you press one of the buttons. Note that the iPod/iPhone presents this data all in different ways, you have to decide yourself what info to appear where to have it presented in the way you like.

License

To have the Tunes Remote Add-on fully functional you need a license. More information here: Ordering Tunes Remote


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