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# Desktop Remote Control
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To control OwnTone from Linux, Windows or Mac, you can use:
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- [The web interface](#the-web-interface)
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- [A remote for iTunes/Apple Music](#remotes-for-itunesapple-music)
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- [A MPD client](#mpd-clients)
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The web interface is the most feature complete and works on all platforms, so
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on desktop there isn't much reason to use anything else.
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However, instead of a remote control application, you can also connect to
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OwnTone via a Media Client e.g. iTunes or Apple Music. Media clients will get
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the media from OwnTone and do the playback themselves (remotes just control
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OwnTone playback). See [Media Clients](../media-clients.md) for more
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information.
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## The web interface
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See [web interface](web.md).
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## Remotes for iTunes/Apple Music
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There are only a few of these, see the below table.
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| Client | Developer | Type | Platform | Working (vers.) |
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| ------------------------ | ----------- | ------ | --------------- | --------------- |
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| TunesRemote SE | | Remote | Java | Yes (r108) |
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| rtRemote for Windows | bizmodeller | Remote | Windows | Yes (1.2.0.67) |
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## MPD clients
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There's a range of MPD clients available that also work with OwnTone e.g.
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Cantata and Plattenalbum.
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The better ones support local playback, speaker control, artwork and automatic
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discovery of OwnTone's MPD server.
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By default OwnTone listens on port 6600 for MPD clients. You can change
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this in the configuration file.
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Due to some differences between OwnTone and MPD not all commands will act the
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same way they would running MPD:
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- crossfade, mixrampdb, mixrampdelay and replaygain will have no effect
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- single, repeat: unlike MPD, OwnTone does not support setting single and repeat
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separately on/off, instead repeat off, repeat all and repeat single are
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supported. Thus setting single on will result in repeat single, repeat on
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results in repeat all.
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