I am building a home automation system in which one of the sub systems is controlling amarok over a web interface .... What I am trying to do is to play a playlist on a remote computer by making a user click on a link on a webpage . the remote server will be hosting the webpage ..... is it possible in amarok or any other player in linux

Hi,

In first, controlling VLC is easy to do because he implements a web remote control (I don't know how exactly it's works...)

But controlling Amarok 2 with a web frontend interests me because I've buyed a HTC Hero with Android. I've found a program who can control Amarok 1.4 with a special web frontend (REST like), but it doesn't work in Amarok 2.
I'm trying to develop an equivalent script for this, but I don't know how making a REST like frontend with QTScript...

I think that a solution for your problem can resolve mine

http://jsharkey.org/blog/2008/08/20/ama ... coppython/
I've already adapted the Android program for cupcake.

thomas.dub wrote:But controlling Amarok 2 with a web frontend interests me because I've buyed a HTC Hero with Android. I've found a program who can control Amarok 1.4 with a special web frontend (REST like), but it doesn't work in Amarok 2.

Well, it can't, Amarok 1.4.x used dcop, Amarok 2.x uses D-BUS. See also this page:
http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/Media_Player_Interfaces

Hi,

I just published my Amarok web frontend. I have Amarok running on a kind of media center PC and I use this frontend to control Amarok from my notebook, netbook and hopefully soon from a WLAN enabled mobile phone.
Have a look at it: http://webarok.sourceforge.net