imclab/reign-for-spotify

The Spotify remote for friends, colleagues, housemates and yourself that works in any browser.

Overview

Reign for Spotify is a remote for friends, colleagues, housemates and yourself that works in any browser. It's available for download at reignalot.com and in the Mac App Store.

What makes Reign unique is that it uses a web page to feed commands to Spotify. Making any device with a web browser a potential remote; iPhone/Android phones, tablets, but also Playstation Vita's, e-Readers etc.

Compiling

Opening the project

• Double click the SpotifyRemoteWorkspace.xcworkspace to open the project in Xcode.

Quick look around

• The workspace consists of two projects: Reign and a Helper. The Helper is used to launch Reign on startup;
• There are build schemes for App Store and Non App Store distribution;
• Some code (like the preferences window) differs between App Store and Non App Store (mainly because of Sparkle);
• The Server opens a http socket using CocoaHTTPServer, broadcasts it using Bonjour and feeds commands to Spotify using AppleScript;
• The Client uses CocoAsyncSocket looks around for other Reign servers;
• Comments are minimal, sorry, might fix that later.

Things you need to add

• The App Store build uses Receigen for receipt validation, remove the build step and code in main.m if you don't have it;
• The dsa_pub.pem file for Sparkle is obviously missing.

Purpose and pull-requests

• For us, this is a pet project, but we'll try our best to merge additions to our code;
• Bug-fixes and other stuff we can learn from are awesome;
• New features are great.

Credits

Robbie Hanson - CocoaAsyncSocket

Robbie Hanson - CocoaHTTPServer

Robbie Hanson - CocoaLumberjack

Ahmet Ardal - DisableSubviews

Vadim Shpakovski - MASPreferences

Alex Zielenski - StartAtLoginController

Andy Matuschak - Sparkle

Contributors

Boy van Amstel - boyvanamstel

Dan Gilbert - daentech

License for the rest of it

New BSD License, see LICENSE for details.