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On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:22:52 +0100, Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >I've been looking at music controlling on a tablet device. I could >modify the code for a desktop audio mixer to use multitouch on linux >in a day or so and have almost all the alsa effects working in a >couple of weeks . The same task for Android is about 15 man years of >work as everything has to be redone almost from scratch. I cant >imagine how many other apps that already exist are being re-written >from the ground up where ideally they just need a small mod for >multi-touch for small screens. Tom te tom te tom > > Why not just think of the tablet as a controller for your PC audio. GUI on the tablet, back-end on the PC, communicate over Wi-Fi. I use the XBMC remote control app on Android to control XBMC on a Raspberry Pi and it works really well and I don't imagine it took anything like 15 man years to develop. Kevin -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq