Remote app showing album artwork with RPI

Audirvāna Remote App
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I’ve got used to having a Raspberry Pi running RopieeeXL, with a small touchscreen attached to display the track I’m playing in Roon all the time.

The good news is that I am migrating away from Roon to Audirvana! I wonder if there is any way to replicate the functionality I have, which is a display showing the album art & track info sitting on my hifi rack. It has a touchscreen too, so if I want to pause or skip tracks while I’m standing, I can.

I can see that an iPad on a stand would be one expensive way to do this but I’ve spent all my money on a new local setup to get the best out of Audirvana, so wonder if there’s a cheaper way, somehow.

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Hi @gingerbrown,

I’m not familiar with RopieeeXL but can it run a remote display program like Teamviewer to connect to your Mac or Windows computer?

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Hi Antoine, thank you for your reply! It looks like Teamviewer could work, thank you.

Jason

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Teamviewer was a non-starter actually, as the remote screen was too small & pixelated when viewed on the Pi touchscreen.

I’ve thought about buying an iPad & putting it on a stand on my hifi rack but when I tested this last night, the portrait Mini Player view is not optimised to show a nice big view of album art & track title. Rather, it is scaled to a size which will make it unreadable on a 9.7 iPad screen from across the room.

Is this the only Mini Player view available?

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Can you do a test and go on the album when you are using the Remote on iPad and tap on the album cover? Do you now see the album cover this way?

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Thank you for replying Antoine. I just tried this & the album cover is not active so nothing happens when I tap it.

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In case my previous message was not precise , here are screenshot of it:

The album view

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after a tap on the cover

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“Now playing” view, to be useful to me, shows track info & progression as well as album art.

I was using the Mini Player view as a starting point for this in my test.

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So is the feature I’m looking for not available?

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It is not available but I genuinely thought it was :sweat_smile:

I will ask our dev about it.

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Thanks Antoine! It would be awesome if the app behaved in a similar way in the Mini Player mode as it does on my iPhone. In this case it shows album art, track information and the track progression.

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Hi @Antoine,

Did you get an answer on this?

Best wishes,
Jason

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Hi @gingerbrown,

Sorry for the late reply. I sent the request to our dev and since we have one big project for the Remote currently ongoing, we can’t deviate from it. However i can assure you we will add a way to better see the album art in the Remote.

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Hi @Antoine,

Thank you for your reply about this.

I’ll wait to buy a 9.7 iPad Pro for this purpose until later then…

Jason