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Enso Media Remote Control

You know the feeling: You’re writing away on an email, listening to some music, and a song you really don’t want to hear starts playing. You want to change it, but you’re in the middle of a great sentence and don’t want to lose your focus by fidgeting with windows just to bring your music player to the foreground. Don’t you wish you could just say "next" to make your music player jump to the next song, no matter what you’re doing?

That’s what Enso Media Remote Control is all about. It lets you control your favorite music player from anywhere, without taking up any screen-space whatsoever.

For now, you’ll have access to commands like next track, previous track, play track, pause track, and the ability to set the volume. And if you happen to be using iTunes, you’ll also be able to command your computer to play songs by name, artist, album, or genre. More features are on the way. And because it’s an Enso command, you’ll have these commands anytime and anywhere.

Don’t know what an Enso command is? Then read this tour, or watch this related Enso Words demonstration .

Media Remote Control works with almost any music player out there, but we haven’t had time to test them all. We know it works with recent versions of iTunes, Winamp, and Windows Media Player. As time goes on, we hope to add support for more players. Leave a comment below to let us know which player you use.

Enough talk. Try it out — it’s free.

What's New

v0.2.0 (Wed, Oct. 10 2007): Added the Mute, Unmute, Play Song, Play Artist, Play Album, and Play Genre commands.

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Enso Media Remote Control v0.2

A remote-control for your music: Play, pause, and skip tracks in your favorite music player from any application.

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COMMENTS

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RE: Enso Launcher’s “Unlearn” command.

Fantastic product! The more I use it however, the more I wish there was a GUI interface allowing me to see all commands and quickly delete or disable any that I do not want.

While the text interface is superb for launching, it is painful for unlearning. Whenever I use the “learn” command I find that there are several existing entries that will make launching suboptimal if not removed. I find myself manually entering five or six unlearn commands for any new command I wish learned. This would be far easier with a GUI interface.

Congratulations on a great product that has been well received.

Appreciatively,

— Chad


I haven’t tested thoroughly, but so far, foobar seems to be working too.


I love the Remote Control, but it seems to have some trouble (at least with Pause Track) with MusicMatch. Keep up the good work.
(*Chris*)


Amazing! This one must become a full product (not only beta)!

Congrats for this!!


hmm, Yahoo! Music Jukebox doesn’t respond to Enso commands (under Vista at least)


Truly fantastic product (as always)!

The only thing missing is a way to fire off music. Obviously, I can do OPEN ITUNES, but I’d love a one step method for firing off my music player and starting music. In your above example, I’m in the middle of an email and I’m more likely to sigh a heavy sigh and think, “well, this is going to require a more detailed explanation…” and then I think, “I’m going to need some tunes to make writing this email bearable…”

Just my thoughts.
Thanks for the great products!
-LW


Doesn’t seem to work with Finetune.com either. Although, I wasn’t really expecting it to work with browser based players, it would be a nice addition.


Doesn’t seem to work with VLC media player.

As I remember, on my old computer with a multimedia keyboard, VLC did respond to the play, next track, etc buttons just like Media Player and Winamp.

I therefore think you can make Remote Control work with VLC fairly easily.

Cheers!


This may be related to the VLC issue, but: support for Songbird would be lovely.

Thanks so much for Enso!


Hi, congrats, I love your products, however, it would be nice:
-to show the current song name (as a non-default behavior feature) in the center dialog transparent window, or in a mini dialog in the lower corner.
-Another cool feature would be able to have a command named “song” that could look for a specific song in your current iTunes library.
-I think you should drop support for another media players and focus on the most used, lets say, iTunes, WMP and Winamp.

PS. Do you have remote developers openings? :P


All these great comments, guess I have to try it out.


This seem promizing but…
I will wait until web base players such as the Netvibes player or Deezer.
this must be a dream…


Look great~ but… no Mac version..@@?


Very good product first !
Question, I used windowd media player, and it seem it don’t work with play artist or song, all are unknow, is there a system to learn artist name ?


Swapnil Brahmbhatt
November 28th, 2007 6:00 am

Oh My Gush!!!!!!!!! this web is amazing…………….


We have Limewire so please could you add it to that


Media remote works nicely with iTunes… almost. When you play a track with Enso, the little speaker does not appear beside the track in iTunes library, strange.
Also, being able to rate songs using Enso would be perfect. Having to change mode, locate song and rate it is a real pain.
Bye bye!


I’m new to this Enso-thing but can someone please explain me, how I can use that “play artist” or “play song” etc. command? When I type in “play artist” a message pops up that I need to specify the album, genre, artist, etc. When I type in “play artist coldplay” then I get a message “play artist coldplay is not a command”. If I select an artist name in firefox eg., and type in “play artist” I get the same message that I have to specify the name. What can I do? Thanks.


I recommend you implement “resume” as a way of returning from “pause”.


Nice work. I could really see this Enso thing taking off in conjunction with voice-recognition software. To avoid giving false commands you could just preface every command with “Computer:” just like in Star Trek The Next Generation :).


Hey, your own online player playing a playlist doesn’t respond to Enso Media Remote Control. That might be the best demo of all.


I’d like to put in a request for a “song info” command that would display the name, album and artist of the current track. I often find myself wondering what’s playing, and the addition of such a command would mean I would rarely need to manually use iTunes.


Enso is great! I’ve just downloaded and installed your launcher and I’m really impressed how humane it is ;)
BTW - I use foobar2000, so I’d be really grateful for adding some support in your EMRC.


MediaMonkey


Zune v2 support would be nice.


MediaMonkey support please!


I downloaded the standard enso software for launching programs etc. But at first it was a bit fiddly, I wanted it to remember my entries rather than telling it to. The awkwardness of the using the caps lock when typing still bothers me, its ok for short entires but to frustrating for longer words and if you make a typo during the entry it becomes real combersome. To me nothing beats the mouse, it really comes down to how users organise themselves on their PC’s and what steps they take to make their experience as easy as possible. Enso’s a great idea but forces a new approach and for the non-keyboard typing pro it would be too hard to grasp.


musikCube support would be awesome! :-D


It’s not only a music player, but it would be great to control LightAlloy or Media Player Classic that way :-D


hi
awesome product.
but why can’t i choose by artist????


Great product.

Using with iTunes, but how do you stop it from selecting a random track when using ‘next track’ function??


Amarok, Rhythmbox, Banshee and Songbird support would be nice.
OH, and LINUX support!


“I could really see this Enso thing taking off in conjunction with voice-recognition software. To avoid giving false commands you could just preface every command with “Computer:” just like in Star Trek”

If you hadn’t said it, I would’ve. :D One problem though: if you tell it to start playing music it’s suddenly going to get much harder for it to distinguish your voice from all the sounds getting to the microphone. (Lord knows I can’t even get mine to understand me in silence all the time.)


Great Stuff!!
unfortunately the plugin doesn´t work with foobar2000 database…. please implement that. It would be also great when i could choose my soundcard so that the mute and volume commands work too.


great product!

may i suggest an OSD for itunes that we can turn on/off ?


Billy support need to be implement http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
Tnx


MediaMonkey please!


I’d like to echo support for MediaMonkey as well. I really want to use this program but I just can’t give up MediaMonkey! Great work on everything!


Hi!
I don’t know how Enso Remote actually works, but maybe it’s worth a try for those who experience problems with VLC, foobar etc - try changing the key commands in these programs to match winamp or something that works.

Just a guess…


1. I like the way that the launcher prototype works it’s far easier to type and just as simple it doesn’t slow me down at all. in fact it speeds me up since i don’t have to force myself to hold down caps lock and type really long commands distracting me from the task at hand while having to type in an abnormal way

2. I love the media remote control beta it’s great. i like how you can select a genre, artist, or song, if you are using itunes. but i prefer to use windows media player and i wish it had these features for it as well.

3. the Developer Prototype has great intentions. i love the idea. i’ve managed to create a simple command by editing some source code provided on the website that teaches you how to use this beta. however it took me a long time to actually figure out how the code worked(i still don’t understand most of it) and the examples were not very clear and difficult to understand. i especially dislike the fact that you have to have command prompt open in order to use the commands you create. this, to me makes this product deficient or nearly so due to the fact that by the time i open command prompt, type in the name of the file in which the command is stored, open it to make it available to enso, it defeats the whole purpose of enso.
i think it would be great to be able to register the command with enso once you create it but not every single time you want to use it.
i understand that this may be difficult or even impossible, but by eliminating the use of command prompt over and over again and the need to register your commands like this every time you use them, this product would be nearly perfect and very simple to use and be a great addition to enso.

4. as for the other enso betas, they’re great!


Hey,

It would be great to add VLC player and also Songbird from Mozilla. ;-)

Thanks.

Dominique


[…] and use Enso. You’ll know why after a day. Edit: also install Enso Media Remote Control. Edit 2: navigate to WINDOWS_DIR/system32/drivers/etc/hosts and give Enso the command learn as open […]


Hey, Media Player is awesome. Is there any chance of getting the ability to call up playlists, as well as artists, songs, genres and albums? I’d love that.

Anyway, no complaints here. You guys are awesome.


Would be great if it worked with the Last.FM player. (Not the web version but the downloaded player)


When I read that you could us the media remote to select songs to play by name with iTunes, I thought it was a great idea. Except for the fact that I hate iTunes. =P

It’d be nice if you could just teach enso to play any audio file on your computer by just typing the name of it, and have it open in the default media player (as well as having the ability to select an alternative player, but it seems Enso Launcher 2.0 should take care of that).

You see, I don’t use any program to organise my mp3’s or anything. I’ve got them sitting in a folder in Windows XP, which does just fine for me. But I want to be able to type the name of any song in that folder, and have it play in WMP 11.


enso on songbird would be very lovely.


Would be great with songbird support, really good otherwise.


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