slimfx is a Flash-based control application for SlimServer. It installs and loads like a skin, but talks to SlimServer via the CLI.
Here's what it looks like:
To install it, unzip slimfx.zip to your skins directory (e.g., C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\HTML on Windows).
Access it like any other skin in your browser, i.e., "http://servername:9000/slimfx/". You should access it this way rather making it your default skin, since there's a lot of missing functionality compared to the normal skins (including a way of changing the skin).
There's no help within the app yet, but most of the functionality should be pretty obvious. Some less obvious features:
- Drag and drop works in various places (though dragging to a specific location in a playlist can only be done with an individual track).
- Clicking on an album art thumbnail will show the artwork full size. (Hit any key or click the artwork close box to dismiss).
- The filter boxes for Artists, Albums, and Playlists have some keyboard shortcuts: the Up and Down arrows change the selection in the list they're filtering, Enter plays the selection, and Control-Enter adds the selection to the playlist.
- You can only see "now playing" playlists when the players are turned on.
- The application doesn't yet track everything you do with the remote control or normal web interface, so many changes won't be reflected under "now playing".
slimfx is written in Adobe Flex (free SDK available from Flex.org). If you're interested, here is the source code (available only with disclaimers about how it doesn't meet my normal professional standards and is in many ways not the best example of how to write a Flex app).
Send comments, questions, etc. to slimfx@solaristics.net
Version history
| 0.6 | 2-3-2007 | Initial release, numbered quite arbitrarily. |