MonkeyMote Music Remote Lite

Obsidium Software

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About this app

MonkeyMote gives you a full-fledged wireless music remote control for your Android phone.

It fully supports the popular foobar2000, MediaMonkey 4, Winamp, AIMP 2 & 3 and JRiver Media Center media players.

The app connects to the media player running on your Windows PC via your WiFi network and allows you to view information about currently playing tracks and control every important playback feature.

Key features:
• Playback control
• Display song information and cover art
• View and control the current playlist
• Load playlists from your library
• Browse and search your media library and queue songs
• View and set song ratings
• Save multiple connection profiles
• Small, fast, low resource usage, minimal permissions
• Easy to setup and use

All you need to do to get it working is to download and install the plugin installer for your media player from www.monkeymote.com

In case you run into problems when setting up the app or plug-in, please visit the support page at www.monkeymote.com first.

Please note that the automatic server discovery feature requires at least Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) and is not supported by all devices. It is disabled by default on devices that are not running at least Android 4.4 due to an operating system bug that can trigger reboots on some devices.

A 100% ad-free paid version is available as well: MonkeyMote Music Remote

Ratings and reviews

I'm being extremely generous in my 4 star rating. This delivers a bare bones way to play music on my computer using my phone. Minimal ad intrusion, easy setup, works. Downside: I was looking at Playlist options, and accidentally selected "clear Playlist". The Playlist, which had 5,000 entries, was cleared AND DELETED by a slight mistake with my finger. I'm lucky that I use a backup service. But replacing the Playlist was still a huge pain. "Do No Harm": programming rule #1.

Congratulations! It's far better than the AIMP Remote. I love it! One suggestion: it would be cool if we could slide the screen from right to left to see the lyrics for the song playing. There's no need to locally cache the lyrics. Just search it on the net and make it ready to show in case we slide the screen 😉

It may be misssing some functionality, but it is reliable and it just works. Even though free version works just fine (ads are there, but they do not interfere with app functionality), I'm buying it to support development of this app. Highly recommend, keep up the good work!

What's new

The app now asks for confirmation before deleting or clearing playlists.