Remuco is a duplex remote control system for Linux media players and mobile phones equipped with Bluetooth or WiFi.
With Remuco, you can remotely control your favorite media player. You can switch to the next, previous, or any other media within the current playlist, browse your media library and activate other playlists, rate your media, adjust volume, and more. On the mobile phone it displays information about the current media, including cover art.

Remuco can be used with Amarok, Audacious, Banshee, Exaile, MPD, MPlayer, Rhythmbox, Songbird, Totem, TVtime, VLC and XMMS2.

Remuco has both the server side and the client side installation. the server is installed on the PC (and is available in the repositories of every major Linux distribution), and the client is installed on the mobile device. Currently the client side is written in java and can only be installed on j2me supported phones


Features of Remuco

Remuco allows you to control:

* Playback

*Seek forward or backward in current playing item

*Set the playlist to repeat or shuffle

*Control volume

*Rate,

*Tag Media being played on your PC from your mobile phone

It also Displays:

*Current playing songs including album art

*Volume level

*Progress level of current playing song and its current rating

Media browser features includes:

*Browse Currently active playlist and apply actions to them

*Browse the play queue and apply actions to them

*Browse the players media library and apply actions to them

*search for items in the player’s media library and apply actions to items in the search result

*browse the local filesystem and apply actions to files



Update= The client code has now been ported to python but still need a GUI part to make it run on maemo

The project is GPL v3 so am I dont think licensing would be an issue.

I used it on my E71 and it was the killer app








Not sure if it would be easy to port to say python or C (am not a programmer ) but it would be nice to have such an app on the N900 and maemo in general In case anyone is interested here is the link to the project page

http://code.google.com/p/remuco/

and here is a post i wrote about it a while back

http://bigbrovar.aoizora.org/?p=750