Show HN: Flutter - Control Spotify or iTunes Using Gestures thru Webcam

Re:Show HN: Flutter - Control Spotify or iTunes Using Gestur... by nileshk on Sunday March 11, 2012 @08:28PM (#3691808)

This is very cool. It worked perfectly even in the dimly lit room I am sitting in.

What I've been wanting and have thought about developing myself is a universal play/pause control that pauses whatever you happen to be listening to at the moment, whether it be a desktop client like iTunes, Spotify, Rdio, etc, or if it is something running in a web browser like Pandora, Soundcloud, Youtube, etc.

This app takes a step towards this in the way it handles iTunes and Spotify at the same time, by controlling whichever app had focus last.

I imagine for web browser control a browser extension would necessary. And ideally a plugin architecture would exist to allow 3rd parties to add support for additional apps.

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Re:Show HN: Flutter - Control Spotify or iTunes Using Gestur... by goronbjorn on Sunday March 11, 2012 @09:46PM (#3691989)

A different but functionally similar idea would be an automatic pausing of all other services when you start playing one (i.e. when I start playing a Youtube video, automatically pause iTunes).

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Re:Show HN: Flutter - Control Spotify or iTunes Using Gestur... by Zirro on Sunday March 11, 2012 @10:19PM (#3692083)

There needs to be a way to override those behaviours though, as there are situations where the audio of a YouTube video (for example) isn't very interesting, and you'd rather listen to music. Lack of background-playing in the iOS YouTube-app is still an annoyance to me.

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