RJH wrote:
I mostly found myself controlling it via a web browser, which was not
nearly as irritating as I expected. Still, I think I will find some way
of setting up proper hardware controls on it, because jabbing at a phone
or having to go to my MacBook is no way to control what's playing.


I don't mind using a smartphone to control things. App permitting, I use
a simple 'what's playing' interface - VLC works pretty well on Android
and iOS. But horses/courses etc.

VLC is one of the "least worst" but it's still far from good.

.... and for a lot of us using a smartphone is far from ideal too, my
eyesight means I need to search for my reading glasses to see what I'm
doing and the 'keyboard' is not handy either.

There is surely quite a large (and relatively well off) oldies market
for this sort of thing.

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Chris Green
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