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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Shiftee742 said 9:38PM on 3-12-2009
An awesome new name for something I continue not to use.
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TheCheapGeek said 9:55PM on 3-12-2009
I think this is an awesome new feature, I did a video demo and walkthrough on my blog. http://thecheapgeek.org This feature really shows the power of the iPhone/iTunes combo.
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Alex said 10:09PM on 3-12-2009
What if you have an encrypted wireless network? How do guests get on the same network without having to input the encryption key or wireless network password?
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Bloobie said 12:13AM on 3-13-2009
They wouldn't.
Jon said 5:34AM on 3-13-2009
The new Airport Extreme can set up a guest network where people can get on the internet without having access to your private data. You could use this with iTunes DJ to protect your private network.
Anthony Diana said 10:17PM on 3-12-2009
As a dj/someone who generally runs the music at the party, this is a horrible idea. If someone is deemed the dj or its their party, just go and ask. Someone could have a setlist created, and you can have a group of a people who have horrid taste in music come and ruin a party with their phone/ipod. Thank god I only use Remote when im having people over and using a playlist.
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Bloobie said 12:18AM on 3-13-2009
You can turn the guest DJ feature off, as it is by default. You could also enable voting so that the most voted songs play, and require a password for access.
Pierce said 10:18PM on 3-12-2009
Another idea, if many of your friends don't have iPhones, is to have a centrally accessible iPhone connected to the network so your friends can enter their requests via the one device. Just a thought.
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PhysicsGuy said 10:27PM on 3-12-2009
The Wired review is actually completely wrong. Whoever wrote it didn't spend hardly ANY time actually working with DJ.
If you're not an authorized remote of the library, you get an entirely different mode to connect. You can't make the song change. Your vote/request is automatically put at the *end* of the list of already-voted/requested songs. I would assume more votes would move a song up the list, although I only have one device and so I can't vote more than once. If you are authorized, then you have full control over the playlist, and of course tapping on a different song would interrupt it.
Wired really needs to get it together.
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Tom said 11:29PM on 3-12-2009
PhysicsGuy is exactly right, and Wired needs to update its review, quick.
If you just walk into someone's house and you're not an authorized remote for that copy of iTunes, you connect totally differently -- you can request songs only from the currently selected playlist, and all you can do is vote on them to queue them up -- you can't interrupt the current song. But if it's your house, and you're authorized, you can do whatever you want, including flipping it out of DJ mode altogether.
*Very* nicely done.
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Byran Newell said 11:51PM on 3-12-2009
Weird. When songs are picked on my iPhone/iTunes combo, the songs show up NEXT in the playlist, not at the end.
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pojo said 12:08AM on 3-13-2009
I like to picture Steve Jobs in a Tuxedo Shirt, cause it shows that he's formal, but that he also likes to party.
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L3 said 4:12PM on 3-13-2009
VERY well done.
+1
Risto T said 1:22AM on 3-13-2009
I think people are getting confused because they aren't connecting as a guest
To try this out you have to make iTunes forget your remote so you can pretend to be a guest
go to iTunes > Preferences > Devices
and click "forget all remotes"
now you are a guest
go to Playlists > iTunes DJ
press play and click Settings (at the bottom below the playlist)
Check allow guests to request songs, enable voting
add a password if you want
Now, everything works as expected
1) you can queue new songs
2) songs get queued first come first served
3) you can't interrupt the current song
Never mind enabling several guests and the voting and all that noise...
I can see how this would be awesome at a party, where you are the one and only DJ and you want to queue songs without needing to run to the computer.
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David said 12:22PM on 4-02-2009
alternatively you can go back to library select and choose the iTunes DJ instead of the library
Drooling Dog said 1:24AM on 3-13-2009
Very cool integration, but I don't use my Mac to play music at parties. That's what my AppleTV is for. Hopefully this feature will allow people do to the same thing with the AppleTV in the future.
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Pierce said 1:11PM on 3-13-2009
Perhaps you can have iTunes output the audio to your AppleTV with the Speaker function.
Grant said 12:49PM on 3-14-2009
What Pierce said. Controlling iTunes via the Remote app and making it use the Apple TV as its speakers is the ticket. I do it all the time.
Kelmon said 4:31AM on 3-13-2009
Er...OK. I've got to be honest and say that I think this feature is utterly useless and I can't understand why Apple would have wasted time on its development when they have more important issues to address (Cocoa iTunes, for example). Sure, it sounds interesting but it has almost no practical application for day-to-day use of the application.
Put another way, this is what Project Management calls "Gold Plating" and should be avoided.
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Grant said 12:51PM on 3-14-2009
I completely disagree - integrating the Party Shuffle feature with the Remote app is something that's been long overdue, and something I am already using daily, though only for my personal use, not parties. I love having the ability to remotely queue up a song I want to hear without having to interrupt the current song. This is something I've wanted to be able to do with Remote for a long time.