mmm72392

screenshot please?

Can't test right now, but it's an awesome idea so keep working on it! Good work!

kyods

Excellent idea, does not work in its current shape though. Tried several different ports apart from the standard 8080, getting 'Bad request' message all the time while accessing from both the LAN and the WAN.

Wayne

I look forward to the future of this. Will have to try it out later.

kyods

Cerial, works like a charm after setting the hostname. I'm looking forward to your further releases, great work.

Hiromacu

@Cerial: Hi. I tried it with Firefox 3.5 in Windows XP but doesn't work to me. The port is '8080', the hostname is 'localhost' and the password is set. Then in Firefox: http://localhost:8080/, come up a window for authentication, username is 'admin', password what I set before. [Enter] and nothing happen. The authentication window come up again with empty fields. Did I something wrong? I don't understand! :(

pepercut

The passsword is "none" in the firts time

Rolle

Whoa! This is just awesome!! Thanks.

euphonic

I know this isn't entirely related to the add-on, but what Firefox theme are you using in the screenshot? It looks really cool! A lot like Firefox 4.0.

Hiromacu

@Cerial: Still doesn't work to me! :) I can't pass through the "Authentication Request" window. There is no "Bad request" error, just the "Authentication Request" window come up again and again always.
I tried it in Google Chrome, Safari and Firefox, but nothing! Google Chrome was especial bad, because the "Authentication Request" window cyclically disappeared and come up again and again with empty fields without clicking any button (OK or Cancel). So it was impossible to fill the User Name and Password fields.
Cookies were enabled, firewall didn't block it. So I don't understand!!! :(

boosh

HOLY FREAKIN COW! The whole library now! You are officially my favorite person ever!!!!!!

Thank you soo much! When I was able to play that first track through the browser, a tear almost came to my eye.. haha. but for real. yaa...

Songbird can now rule the world! lol.

I don't know why, but on Firefox, the volume controls is getting hidden below the screen below the player control buttons??
Also can you add an option to change the username too? And while on that, add an option to disable username/password protection... cause I really don't care for it too much..
And for beginners/non-advanced-computer-ists, it might be hard for them to figure out how to get this all working without reading all of the above description...
Maybe just simply adding text below the options saying: "Open your browser and enter <hostname:portnumber> into the URL bar. The username is admin."

And if you had an option to change the username or disable the password protection all together that might cut down on confusion ;-)

Thanks sooo much Cerial!!

boosh

Also, it can never load my whole library of about 19k songs, ill get a 'stop script' message in songbird and FF will go up to about 1.5 GB of memory. (its not too big of a problem since i use playlists mostly) I see a lot of error in the error console too, not sure if you are aware of them though..
One more feature request would be a Now Playing List integration type of thing (but i know that would be reeeaaaallly hard though) cause I see myself using this at a 'party' type scene... ;-) (Basically it would replace a HTPC)

w0lf42

Very cool!

Unfortunately, I can't load my entire library (~17GB) either. I tested with a couple of playlists, and those work great. THX.

pabloneruda

This is a great add on, thx

jomaweb

I really can't get the point of this add-on.
Playing your library on the browser? why don't use songbird itself instead?
Or

you're meaning it acts as a media server?

jomaweb

Similar to Subsonic Streamer??

Otherwise is a Webrowser with a player with a webbrowser........

Recursive thing, ah?

dakial

Can I access it thru the internerds? Or only inside my LAN? Or neither?

jonoisawitness

sorry im a noob, but how do you set this up? help please :D

TheOneRing

Great but could you implement a support for the daap extension, currently there don't appear any songs if I click on the daap node in web remote and I don't have any music stored on my laptop.
Or is this a problem in Songbird Daap Client

I have Webremote set up and working, but only when on this computer. For settings, I have port as 8080 and hostname is my ip address (typed out as xxx.xx.xxx.xxx; that is the right format, isn't it?). I'm able to access it in either chrome or firefox by using localhost:8080. This obviously won't work on other computers, but I really want to be able to change the music remotely, as compared to just in the browser of the same computer. Going to http://xxx.xx.xxx.xxx:8080 just gives a "This might be a broken link" page, though. Am I doing something wrong? Some information about the network: I switch between wifi and ethernet on my college's network. Does the fact that it's a college network or that I switch between the two mean I won't be able to get it to work?

Razorus

Is there anyway to find out why I can't log in ?
I tried the defaut "admin/none" combo or "admin/passwordsetwithGUI".

Where is stored the password hash or something like that ?

I need this add on ! please ^^

J-C

Just giving some feedback: It works great (Songbird 1.5.0a build 1339, and Chrome 4.0.237)

astrakid

@Razorus: Just remove the password from the addon-settings within songbird, restart songbird and try it again without password. that should work

@Zach511: what is the IP-address of the machine running songbird? use that IP for Webremote, as port use simply 80. Restart songbird (it is necessary to get the changes applied), and try again from your remote-machine. If you have a firewall running, stop it on the songbird-pc during the test.

Marko

Great idea.

Is it also possible to transfer or view only the "Playbar" (showing play-controls, song infos and rating) without sidebars and without Playlist?
It takes years for building the playlist in Firefox.
Something like a mini player that only takes one line would be perfect.

Best would be to implement it as a "toolbar" within Mozilla products like Firefox or Thunderbird.

Marko

jakeahearts

It worked great on 1.2 - I hope you're going to update it for the latest version (1.4+)
Thanks.

superbird

Installed on Kubuntu music server in our office environment. Works great on mac clients with Firefox and Safari.
One request, now if I rearrange the playlist in remote client for examplet based on album, Songbird continues to play songs in alphabetical order. Is it possible to get the player to recognice the order of songs from remote interface. Also is it possible to get more speed to songlist creation.

carbide20

Same issue as zach511

I can connect locally with localhost:8080
but not from a remote computer on the same network. No firewall is running. I just get a bad request on the remote machine. I have the host set to the ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

any help appreciated!

carbide20

Nevermind! I forgot to restart it after setting the hostname to the ip instead of 'localhost'

Hope this helps somebody else!

veeeee

Great add-on!

Any plans to add the ability to modify playlists?

Wilco

Typical, I spend a month writing my own web remote script, and then I find this (I looked around loads at first!)

Mine is based with a mobile web interface, If you want I can help port it over to this? Look up Telescope in this addon directory :)

Horazont

Here an example what you can do with this extension: http://sandboxedmind.sotecware.net/tuning-songbird-with-webinterface/

al3x

I tried to login but it was unsuccessful. In the settings i set 1.) none unsername and none pw - i tried it - nothing 2.) a username - none pw - nothing 3.) both - nothing. But i get a connection, so i saw the log in screen that wasn´t the problem.

kraeuter

Hey Cerial! Thank u for this awesome plug-in. Keep Rocking!

jdefranco

Where do I change settings? From the post above, I can see that I need to set hostname and password but I don't see where I'm supposed to do that in songbird.

I'm using XP SP2, firefox 3.0.3 and songbird 1.7.3.

jdefranco

I figured out how to change the settings so now I can see the app from other machines. What API set did you use to make this? I don't see any references on how to create an extension that can accessed via browser.

yoss15

this is awesome!

Can I ask what kind of support you are working on for phones? I am in a weird situation, I want to use my EVO as a remote for music but cannot be on the same network as the computer because I am at school and the phone doesn't seem to support the wireless here. I also cannot just make an adhoc network because that doesn't seem to work either.

I tried using it on my phone but it would never load.

If I could access this from anywhere on my phone that would be awesome!

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jchamb2010

Is there any plan for a search function? I think that this is perfect, but it'd be nice if there was a search function of some type.

Thanks,
-John

daibutsu

seems like just what I need. But alas - I'm new to songbird and downloaded the latest version, of course, which is 1.8.0 and which refuses to install WebRemote, and I'm reluctant to switch to an earlier songbird version.
Any chance for a compatible WebRemote version soon?

xavier_

Can you update it with the 1.8.0 version of SongBird ?

Echoes

Hi guys! Please bear with me on this...

I'm not a techie and I don't understand how to use this add-on... if I'm not mistaken, this add-on allows you to use Songbird through Firefox? Please tell me how I can do this. I'm using Songbird 1.8 and Firefox 3.6.10. Thank you!

filledvoid

This is awesome! Truly elegant to get it looking exactly like Songbird!

Feature request: it would be nice if the "filter pane" feature was also supported. I typically create playlists on-the-fly using the "genre" and "artist" filters.

ihavnoclue

If I try this on my computer it works fine, but if I try controlling my songibrd from a different computer I get bad request. Any ideas? My hostname is my IP address.
Also I like the idea of filter pane, search and a mobile version.

volongoto

Hi,

Thank you for this great add-on. I've downgraded my Songbird just to be able to use this add-on. But I think it lacks an important feature: it only has the list view for the library. It's not very handy when the library is big (which is the case most of the times). So, I think implementing the "filter pane view" would be a great addition to its current features. It takes less time to load and would be faster to navigate as well.

In short: +1 for "filter pane view"

anero79

Hi, are you planning to release a new version with support for Songbird 1.9.3? Thanks!

Mama70

Hi,
just downloaded Songbird and this addon. I have Android tablet so I would like to have a decent remote for playing the music. But this one does not support same kind of filter view (artist, album, titles ) that Songbird has. So it loads the whole list at first. I have about 5000 songs from ripped cd so using a single list is not possible. Also, I cannot find version 1.9.0 of Songbird which seems to be the last version your addon supports. There seems to be a gap of versions it's possible to download, 1.8.0 and then the next one is 1.9.3. Would be nice to use this but I need to have the same kind of filter interface Songbird has.