Hello all,
i know this topic is old but there doesnt seem to be much movement on this front, and id like to renew the push
- are there any apps that can accept commands and send key-strokes to MB?YES! For Android and Windows Phones there is a paid app ($4.95) called GRemote (
http://gbmsoftware.com), ive used this extensively with Winamp and VLC and it is very, very good. The instal does come prepacked with configurations (keymaps) for many of the main players out in the wild including WMP and XBMC and all of that, sadly MusicBee is absent but it is very easy to (like suggested) change the config to use Global Hotkey keypresses which MusicBee is farmiular with.
- are there any apps that work with winamp? Its possible to make MB advertise itself as winamp and accept winamp commands (the only way at the moment is to set the Instant Messenger type to 'Fake Winamp' but i can make a better preference setting if this is a viable approach)No need, with the above software you can start off with the template for Winamp or Foobar, re-jig the congif and rename it as MusicBee
- musicbee now has an API, so someone could develop a MB pluginfor basic functions like play/pause, stop, next, previous are just monkey banana kind of stuff, very easy.. Something which i would like to see implemented is GRemote has the ability to view and use the active playlist, out of the box this works with Winamp and Aimp2, it may be something you need to talk to the developers of GRemote, this link to their page can explain it better then i can:
http://gbmsoftware.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80&Itemid=26