Description
With Remote you can control the music on your computer or Apple TV from your iPod touch or iPhone.
Play, pause, skip, shuffle. See your songs, playlists, and album art on your iPod touch or iPhone as if you were right in front of your computer.
Remote works with your Wi-Fi network, so you can control
playback from anywhere in and around your home.
FEATURES
- Control the music on iTunes or Apple TV
- See the album artwork on your Remote
- Create and update Genius playlists
- Edit playlists in iTunes
- Search your whole iTunes library
- Control your AirTunes speakers
- Control your Apple TV with simple finger gestures
What's New in Version 1.3.3
Remote 1.3.3 provides bug fixes and compatibility with iTunes 9 and Apple TV 3.
Customer Reviews
Works great after you fix your firewall
If iTunes lets you enter the passcode, but then seems to go dumb and won't let your iphone/ipod connect, change your Mac/PC firewall to allow incoming connections for iTunes. On a Mac: from the menu select System Preferences/Security/Firewall then pick "Set access for specific services and applications". Then click the "+" and find/select iTunes in your Applications folder and click "Add". Then make sure the setting next to iTunes says "Allow incoming connections"
Very cool use of iPhone "iPod" persona as remote control
Very clever! This appears to re-use a lot of the interface already worked out to support the iPod features of an iPhone or iPod touch, but modified to remotely control an instance of iTunes in your local network. The controls are obvious and intuitive because they are the same controls you're already used to with your iPhone.
Requires iTunes 7.7 or later to recognize the remote as a new item in your DEVICES category in iTunes, and then a simple randomly generated PIN code links the iPhone/touch to the iTunes. Interface features like album art are sent to the iPhone/touch from itunes to complete the user experience. There is little if any network latency, and all the controls (with the exception of coverflow mode) appear to work just as you'd expect, but remotely controlling your iTunes (or Apple TV) system rather than the "onboard" music library.
This just couldn't be easier to use. I will admit to being late to work because I found this application to be too much fun to play with.
"Works" is not entirely accurate
All the reviews make it sound great and it looks great in theory, but it doesn't work for everyone apparently. The support articles are useless for fixing whatever is causing this not to work for me. Same wi-fi network - check; system requirements - check. Operational - NO. Apple needs to post some more detailed troubleshooting articles. Clearly the set up is more complicated than simply downloading and installing. The app is free, the 6+ hours I have spent trying to investigate the reason it doesn't work is frustrating. Trying to blindly reconfigure firewall settings and resetting routers is a little beyond the average user. Especially without any useful technical assistance.
- Category: Entertainment
- Updated Nov 20, 2009
- Current Version: 1.3.3
- 1.3.3 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 1.6 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
- Seller: Apple Inc.
- © 2008-2009 Apple Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.2 or later.
