Download from Google Play.

We need the following information:

• Country?
• What spotify plan?
• What device ? (as much information as possible)
• What android version? (as much information as possible)
• What computer and what computer operative system?

The beta test will require you to:

• Install remoteless on your device (this could require some technical knowledge).
• Use remoteless.
• Take some screenshots.
• Give us feedback, and follow up on problems we find.

We will probably start with 5-10 testers and then expand, so hurry up!

Thanks for your help!

-Anders and the Remoteless Team.

The browser is done, and so is Remoteless for Android beta! YAY! Did not expect to finish it in 5 days, but we did and we are extremely happy to have arrived at this remoteless milestone.

Now remember, this is the first beta, and when we got version 1.0 of the ground, we will continue to add stuff and improve it. The android version does not have any web integration, and our planned premium integration on the iOS version is not possible in java. Hopefully signup for beta will start today, and hopefully we will send our little app to google play next week. My conclusion on android development is as follows: Sometimes Android is great, and sometimes android sucks. The java language and the development tools are great. The Activity architecture is also a great enforcer of model view controller, and the web is filled with examples and tutorials. What sucks with Android is the different screen sizes. Remoteless for Android is developed on a 240 x 320 screen, and I’m sure it will look really bad on a tablet or anything big. I simply don’t know how it will turn out, and I guess a lot of future development will be to improve for bigger screens. I’m sure I will port all of my future apps to android, no doubt about it.

Update: Day 4, 15. march:

Day 4 was a little slow. At 11.10 our old couch was picked up by the buyer, and at 11.40 our new couch arrived. A nice upgrade to our living room / office, but not a productivity booster. To the left is my todo-list / bug-list which you can see is almost completed. The numbers written around on the page indicates prioritisations done while checking those boxes. The second screen shows that I finally managed to load those playlists! Java (which is the development language for android) is great since you don’t need to think that much about memory, and because of this you get elegant code. My message pipeline is pretty nice and works well for small status messages. However when i tried to pump 4-5 megabytes of play lists trough it, the java garbage collector killed the load performance. Elegant code is often slow code, and I miss some byte array operators I have in c++ / Objective-C. After some optimizations the pipeline can now handle that load without any problem, but I probably have to do some more work in speeding up this process. The code will hopefully fly on devices with a little more RAM, my test device is the cheapest android I could find. With that problem out of the way, the browser is getting better, and I will hopefully have both playlists and search done tomorrow. Remoteless for Android is so complete now that a release is near, even if i have to spend some time next week finishing it. We really hope you will like it!

Update: Day 3, 14. march:

9 screens from todays work. A lot of small stuff have been fixed today, like crashers and smooth handling of lost connection. The Menu overlay is also working now, with songslider, sharing, shuffle and repeat. Whats left for tomorrow is the Manual Connection screen, and the browser with playlists and search. The remote is really stable now, so we are pretty happy. Looking forward to get the beta out!

Update: Day 2, 13. march:

We managed to connect to the helper! Great! Adding state and button controls was easy after that. Finally we did cover art which was pretty easy due to included jpeg libraries. Tomorrow I will add playlists and search + fix some small issues related to switching orientations and lost connections. Progress is way above expectations, and the beta will probably be finished this Friday. I will try to add the menu with sharing + shuffle / repeat / time slider on Thursday, and then add the Web stuff on Friday. Hopefully full beta testing can start next week, and then we should have release in a couple of weeks (with a big ‘IF everything goes smoothly’).

Day 1, 12. march:

Basic gui pluss helper detection is now done. Hoping to establish a full connection with the helper tomorrow. Really fun to start from scratch, and hopefully we will have a fully working version by the end of this week.

Please tell us if its better or worse

Download from: remoteless.no.

Hi!

We have been working hard on fixing the ‘play all…’ bug where the ‘play all…’ simply does not work. If you have a mac with 10.6 or better, and have experienced this problem, please try to:

• Download THIS mac 1.1.3 beta helper to your desktop.
• Shut down your already running Remoteless.
• Unzip and start this new beta helper.
• Start some playlists and see if the bug is fixed.

Any feedback is welcomed! Thanks for your patience and help!

- The Remoteless Team

Link: http://www.remoteless.no/helpers/RemotelessHelper_1_1_3_beta.zip 

We need your help!

For a pretty long time we have developed our html 5 remote. Its finally fully working, but since nobody on the team is either a javascript or a css guru, it still have a long way to go. So, anybody our there that can help us get this done a little faster then we can do ourselves? The current version is available, and fully working, but we also want the following:

• Cross browser compability
• Phone optimalization (should look great on an android!)
• Tablet optimalization (should look sweet on a tablet)
• Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger!
• Volume slider

So do you know your css? Is ecmascript your friend, and jsonp your weapon? Contact us and we make a deal! We are willing to pay 500$ for a finished html5 remote. Remember, its already working so its not a ton of work, and this could be a cool spare time project! Also, we will list your name, and we could be a cool reference.

To check it out; download and install the helper from remoteless.no. Enable and open the html remote from the helper dropdown menu. There it is! This is your challenge!

Do you have a friend that might want to help is? Please send a link to this page!

Help us!

We are constantly trying to improve, and we really want Remoteless to be the best, so: What do you want us to do?

We currently have the following ideas, but nothing is decided yet, and we are always listening for feedback!

• A basic wimp extension, allowing you to prev/next/play/pause + coverart + volume your wimp client.
• Full throttle on the Html player, opening for all platforms to use Remoteless (via PayPal).
• A queue system, where Remoteless opens a separate queue window to override Spotify’s queue (only way to do queuing)
• A standalone player (not sure if legal and only for premium) so that you can run Remoteless without the Spotify client (gives better queuing, better control, and smaller setup).
• We have discussed our own audio streaming solution like airfoil, so that your audio could play in sync from all your devices.
• Simplification? Maybe less is better?
• Some sort of social integration where you can access your friends “Now playing” music?
• Harder, better, faster, stronger? Just improve what we have?

A question we often ask ourself, and that was the origin for the web integrations is: “What else do I want to do while listening to music?”

Any feedback is welcome, and we are happy to discuss different use cases, and different ideas! As our users, you are the experts! Help up make Remoteless the best remote ever!

Here is Remoteless and its new gui:

Lets start some music:

Scroll up to access the menu:

Scroll down to access the web:

Go directly to the Last.fm page for the currently playing artist:

Find similar tracks to the current playing with moretrackslikethis.com (no typing required):

Click any spotify link, and it will start on your computer (instead of opening the Spotify App):

Go directly to the photo album of the currently playing artist at Last.fm:

Browse and start top lists from many countries with Topsify.com:

Play Spotify radio with Echoifyapp.com:

Explore the music you are listening to or discover new music, right from your Remote-less remote!

We also want tips on more pages to add, they should load nicely in iPhone Safari, have Spotify links to click, and have to be searchable for direct lookups (We are also trying to include direct lookups at Lyrics.com for lyrics ).

-The remoteless team!

• United States: 73
• Sweden: 72
• United Kingdom: 68
• Norway: 60
• Denmark: 45 -WELCOME DENMARK!, WE LOVE YOU AND YOUR ROSKILDE FESTIVAL: WE GO THERE EVERY YEAR SINCE 2005!!!-
• Netherlands: 17
• Finland: 6
• Germany: 5
• Canada: 2
• Spain: 2
• Mexico: 2
• Australia, Belgium, Estonia, Greece, New Zealand, Slovenia: 1 each
• France: 0

What is strange about this list is that we sell apps in Germany, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Belgium, Estonia, Greece, New Zealand, Slovenia where Spotify ISN’T available.

What is even stranger is that we DON’T sell any apps in France and Spain, where Spotify IS available.

So our big question to you is: France and Spain, Where are you? What are we doing wrong?

A possible explanations could be that Spotify just isn’t big in those countries. Another explanation is that we need to localize Remoteless into French and Spanish. Not a huge effort, but will it help?. Thirdly; well, you tell us!

Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

-The Remoteless ‘international’ team (same old team, but now international )

Update 1:

This list compares the iTunes rating of the free Spotify client and Remoteless for all countries, on 15.10.2011. The lower the ratio the better, the Spotify rating should give some sort of baseline for how popular Spotify is in that country, so the ratio is somehow a normalized way of looking at the popularity of Remoteless.

 Its a clear difference here between Group 1: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherland and  Group 2: Spain, Finland and France. The US is so different and so big that we cant know if it belongs in group 1 or group 2. The quest for an answer continues!