A remote-control for your music: Play, pause, and skip tracks in your favorite music player from any application.
Enso Media Remote Control
You know the feeling: You’re writing away on an email, listening to some music, and a song you really don’t want to hear starts playing. You want to change it, but you’re in the middle of a great sentence and don’t want to lose your focus by fidgeting with windows just to bring your music player to the foreground. Don’t you wish you could just say "next" to make your music player jump to the next song, no matter what you’re doing?
That’s what Enso Media Remote Control is all about. It lets you control your favorite music player from anywhere, without taking up any screen-space whatsoever.
For now, you’ll have access to commands like next track, previous track, play track, pause track, and the ability to set the volume. And if you happen to be using iTunes, you’ll also be able to command your computer to play songs by name, artist, album, or genre. More features are on the way. And because it’s an Enso command, you’ll have these commands anytime and anywhere.
Don’t know what an Enso command is? Then read this tour, or watch this related Enso Words demonstration .
Media Remote Control works with almost any music player out there, but we haven’t had time to test them all. We know it works with recent versions of iTunes, Winamp, and Windows Media Player. As time goes on, we hope to add support for more players. Leave a comment below to let us know which player you use.
Enough talk. Try it out — it’s free.
What's New
v0.2.0 (Wed, Oct. 10 2007): Added the Mute, Unmute, Play Song, Play Artist, Play Album, and Play Genre commands.
Keeping Up-To-Date
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Enso Media Remote Control v0.2
Why Beta?
Humanized is committed to world-class customer support. Even people who don't love Enso love our support. This product is in beta, which means we can't guarantee full support. But that doesn't mean we won't try.
Chad Hunter
September 17th, 2007 6:52 pm
RE: Enso Launcher’s “Unlearn” command.
Fantastic product! The more I use it however, the more I wish there was a GUI interface allowing me to see all commands and quickly delete or disable any that I do not want.
While the text interface is superb for launching, it is painful for unlearning. Whenever I use the “learn” command I find that there are several existing entries that will make launching suboptimal if not removed. I find myself manually entering five or six unlearn commands for any new command I wish learned. This would be far easier with a GUI interface.
Congratulations on a great product that has been well received.
Appreciatively,
— Chad
I haven’t tested thoroughly, but so far, foobar seems to be working too.
Chris Pratt
September 18th, 2007 1:06 pm
I love the Remote Control, but it seems to have some trouble (at least with Pause Track) with MusicMatch. Keep up the good work.
(*Chris*)
Diogo Chaves
September 19th, 2007 8:08 am
Amazing! This one must become a full product (not only beta)!
Congrats for this!!
hmm, Yahoo! Music Jukebox doesn’t respond to Enso commands (under Vista at least)
Truly fantastic product (as always)!
The only thing missing is a way to fire off music. Obviously, I can do OPEN ITUNES, but I’d love a one step method for firing off my music player and starting music. In your above example, I’m in the middle of an email and I’m more likely to sigh a heavy sigh and think, “well, this is going to require a more detailed explanation…” and then I think, “I’m going to need some tunes to make writing this email bearable…”
Just my thoughts.
Thanks for the great products!
-LW
Doesn’t seem to work with Finetune.com either. Although, I wasn’t really expecting it to work with browser based players, it would be a nice addition.
Doesn’t seem to work with VLC media player.
As I remember, on my old computer with a multimedia keyboard, VLC did respond to the play, next track, etc buttons just like Media Player and Winamp.
I therefore think you can make Remote Control work with VLC fairly easily.
Cheers!
This may be related to the VLC issue, but: support for Songbird would be lovely.
Thanks so much for Enso!
Hi, congrats, I love your products, however, it would be nice:
-to show the current song name (as a non-default behavior feature) in the center dialog transparent window, or in a mini dialog in the lower corner.
-Another cool feature would be able to have a command named “song” that could look for a specific song in your current iTunes library.
-I think you should drop support for another media players and focus on the most used, lets say, iTunes, WMP and Winamp.
PS. Do you have remote developers openings? ![]()
SeB.fr
November 16th, 2007 4:12 am
This seem promizing but…
I will wait until web base players such as the Netvibes player or Deezer.
this must be a dream…
wolkam
November 27th, 2007 4:08 am
Very good product first !
Question, I used windowd media player, and it seem it don’t work with play artist or song, all are unknow, is there a system to learn artist name ?
Carl Bolduc
January 14th, 2008 10:58 am
Media remote works nicely with iTunes… almost. When you play a track with Enso, the little speaker does not appear beside the track in iTunes library, strange.
Also, being able to rate songs using Enso would be perfect. Having to change mode, locate song and rate it is a real pain.
Bye bye!
ziczac
January 16th, 2008 6:33 am
I’m new to this Enso-thing but can someone please explain me, how I can use that “play artist” or “play song” etc. command? When I type in “play artist” a message pops up that I need to specify the album, genre, artist, etc. When I type in “play artist coldplay” then I get a message “play artist coldplay is not a command”. If I select an artist name in firefox eg., and type in “play artist” I get the same message that I have to specify the name. What can I do? Thanks.
I recommend you implement “resume” as a way of returning from “pause”.
Michael Klein
January 17th, 2008 5:57 am
Nice work. I could really see this Enso thing taking off in conjunction with voice-recognition software. To avoid giving false commands you could just preface every command with “Computer:” just like in Star Trek The Next Generation :).
Jim Yates
January 18th, 2008 1:05 am
Hey, your own online player playing a playlist doesn’t respond to Enso Media Remote Control. That might be the best demo of all.
I’d like to put in a request for a “song info” command that would display the name, album and artist of the current track. I often find myself wondering what’s playing, and the addition of such a command would mean I would rarely need to manually use iTunes.
Enso is great! I’ve just downloaded and installed your launcher and I’m really impressed how humane it is ![]()
BTW - I use foobar2000, so I’d be really grateful for adding some support in your EMRC.
Max Weir
February 13th, 2008 3:32 pm
I downloaded the standard enso software for launching programs etc. But at first it was a bit fiddly, I wanted it to remember my entries rather than telling it to. The awkwardness of the using the caps lock when typing still bothers me, its ok for short entires but to frustrating for longer words and if you make a typo during the entry it becomes real combersome. To me nothing beats the mouse, it really comes down to how users organise themselves on their PC’s and what steps they take to make their experience as easy as possible. Enso’s a great idea but forces a new approach and for the non-keyboard typing pro it would be too hard to grasp.
It’s not only a music player, but it would be great to control LightAlloy or Media Player Classic that way ![]()
Great product.
Using with iTunes, but how do you stop it from selecting a random track when using ‘next track’ function??
Amarok, Rhythmbox, Banshee and Songbird support would be nice.
OH, and LINUX support!
ateologu
April 5th, 2008 5:56 pm
“I could really see this Enso thing taking off in conjunction with voice-recognition software. To avoid giving false commands you could just preface every command with “Computer:” just like in Star Trek”
If you hadn’t said it, I would’ve.
One problem though: if you tell it to start playing music it’s suddenly going to get much harder for it to distinguish your voice from all the sounds getting to the microphone. (Lord knows I can’t even get mine to understand me in silence all the time.)
scheflon
May 13th, 2008 4:57 am
Great Stuff!!
unfortunately the plugin doesn´t work with foobar2000 database…. please implement that. It would be also great when i could choose my soundcard so that the mute and volume commands work too.
Adarsh
June 1st, 2008 6:12 am
great product!
may i suggest an OSD for itunes that we can turn on/off ?
DanyDanman
June 16th, 2008 6:41 am
Billy support need to be implement http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
Tnx
I’d like to echo support for MediaMonkey as well. I really want to use this program but I just can’t give up MediaMonkey! Great work on everything!
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