We're currently using Rhythmbox as our audio player on Ubuntu. I'd like to be able to control the music remotely and the logical thing to use is my Android phone.
First I installed (URemoteDesktop) on my phone and the server from GuateDroid on my computer. The server requires Java to be installed, and Ubuntu doesn't include Java so I needed to install that before it would work. I initially installed the restricted extras, which claim they include Java, but it still didn't work so I installed Sun Java 6. URemoteDesktop does allow you to change the volume, skip and pause, as well as things like switching desktop, turning the screen on & off, presentation controls and typing. However it doesn't let me start listening to an album without being at the computer.
As there didn't seem to be many apps around I decided to investigate web control. First up was Rhytmote. This did what I wanted, but the interface is a big table of all the songs. This is just about usable at the moment, but it's not going to be once we've finished ripping all our CDs. It also didn't seem to have any way of playing a whole album.
Next I tried RhythmWeb from here. I got a web page, but no songs showing up. Whilst trying to find a solution I found a newer version. The interface has a powerful search, play queue management, tag clouds (though the tag sizes seem a bit random), and the ability to play podcasts, and most importantly works well in a mobile browser. It also gets bonus points for the music in the screen shots on their website. One problem is that Rhythmbox decides to play Derby Ram (which is the first track if I list all tracks in Rhythmbox) after it runs out of things in the play queue.
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