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The original was posted on /r/rust by /u/frstyyy on 2025-04-25 09:48:02+00:00.

So, I had an extra tablet laying around, it’s not really that performant to do anything and so I wanted to use it as a media visualizer/controller for my pc.

I looked for apps or anything that would allow me to do what I wanted, I didn’t find any (Okay I didn’t really research extensively and I thought it would be a cool project idea, sorry for the clickbait ig) so I built a server in rust which would broadcast current media details in my pc over the local network using socketio and exposed a client webapp in my local network as well. I made it a cli tool such that users can bring their own frontend if they want to as well.

Currently, it only works for windows btw. Rust newbie here so I’m open to suggestions.

Repo: Media Controller