Reality Jockey

Are you working at the Lovely HQ or another open space office?

Do you like listening to music when working?
Are you sick of your colleagues (especially people like manfred) shouting at you when you have your headphones on?
Here is something for you.

I just added a page to download the RJ aka Reality Jockey application. The Lovely office is an open space office and we have a couple of people who are more productive when they are listening to music (bernd, armin, me, me, and me again) and we have others who are totally ineffective with music (jürgen, manfred, manfred and manfred again).

So we solved the problem. Using RJ you can now listen to your favorite music via your headphones and at the same time staying connected with the world around you.

Lovely people, get your headphones out now!

From breidenbruecker (36) posted on July 3, 2007 in Home and Mac OSX and music | Meet breidenbruecker on Google Talk
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14 Responses to “Reality Jockey”

J1m says on July 3rd, 2007 at 8:42 pm

Benji and I had a lot of fun with this. :)

Sven says on July 4th, 2007 at 12:53 pm

haha, this is brilliant! exactly what me in my colleague need in our shared office space…

justin says on July 10th, 2007 at 7:46 pm

lovely earme!
:-)

mathias says on July 11th, 2007 at 10:13 am

strange, it just doesn’t work on my imac.
I’m not able to start the program, it crashes every time…

breidenbruecker says on July 11th, 2007 at 10:51 am

hi mathias
what version of osx are you using and what imac are you working on?

mathias says on July 11th, 2007 at 2:40 pm

it’s 10.4.10 and a intel 2ghz core duo.
i have the same problem with my macbook pro core2duo and 10.4.10

breidenbruecker says on July 11th, 2007 at 4:02 pm

mathias
make sure the file is called RJ. Sometimes filenames get extensions when they are downloaded… e.g. when you have more than one copy of it on the download location (like RJ_2). RJ won’t work when the file does not have the same naming as the application.

mathias says on July 11th, 2007 at 4:17 pm

i have the RJ.app in applications, when i start the app i can see the “splash-screen”. but after that the app doesn’t respond and i see the lovely mac-spinning-wheel.

flo says on August 11th, 2007 at 8:23 pm

it’s not working for me - it tells me to install support for objects from older versions of max (i’m using 4.5) - the RJ app starts but i am not able to choose input and output destinations. any idea?

i was wondering whether it’s stitll possible to hear from which direction people are calling you when using RJ.

michael says on August 24th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

hi flo
you don’t need to have max installed. its all on the max runtime…. so i guess your problem is that you installed an older (newer) version of max than the rj was compiled and you are trying to open the runtime in max… or someething like that.

Christian Scholz says on October 26th, 2007 at 4:01 pm

That’s nice but somehow I couldn’t change the output to my USB headset, it wanted to stay on the default output..

Anyway, cool tool! :-)

Manfred says on August 22nd, 2008 at 9:31 am

for anyone who is asking “what means rj?”. here is the answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fxQFly1BQA

michael says on August 22nd, 2008 at 10:07 am

Hey everyone. Here is an update on realityjockey. We have a new home at http://www.rjdj.me Would be great to meet you all there.

Lovely, goodbye and thanks for all the fish ;-)

Lovely Systems » Blog Archive » Lovely, goodbye and thanks for all the fish ;-) says on August 24th, 2008 at 9:57 pm

[...] … quoting Michael on the last comment on the Reality Jockey post of July 3rd, 2007. [...]

J1m says on July 3rd, 2007 at 8:42 pm

Benji and I had a lot of fun with this. :)
Sven says on July 4th, 2007 at 12:53 pm

haha, this is brilliant! exactly what me in my colleague need in our shared office space…
justin says on July 10th, 2007 at 7:46 pm

lovely earme!
:-)
mathias says on July 11th, 2007 at 10:13 am

strange, it just doesn’t work on my imac.
I’m not able to start the program, it crashes every time…
breidenbruecker says on July 11th, 2007 at 10:51 am

hi mathias
what version of osx are you using and what imac are you working on?
mathias says on July 11th, 2007 at 2:40 pm

it’s 10.4.10 and a intel 2ghz core duo.
i have the same problem with my macbook pro core2duo and 10.4.10
breidenbruecker says on July 11th, 2007 at 4:02 pm

mathias
make sure the file is called RJ. Sometimes filenames get extensions when they are downloaded… e.g. when you have more than one copy of it on the download location (like RJ_2). RJ won’t work when the file does not have the same naming as the application.
mathias says on July 11th, 2007 at 4:17 pm

i have the RJ.app in applications, when i start the app i can see the “splash-screen”. but after that the app doesn’t respond and i see the lovely mac-spinning-wheel.
flo says on August 11th, 2007 at 8:23 pm

it’s not working for me - it tells me to install support for objects from older versions of max (i’m using 4.5) - the RJ app starts but i am not able to choose input and output destinations. any idea?

i was wondering whether it’s stitll possible to hear from which direction people are calling you when using RJ.
michael says on August 24th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

hi flo
you don’t need to have max installed. its all on the max runtime…. so i guess your problem is that you installed an older (newer) version of max than the rj was compiled and you are trying to open the runtime in max… or someething like that.
Christian Scholz says on October 26th, 2007 at 4:01 pm

That’s nice but somehow I couldn’t change the output to my USB headset, it wanted to stay on the default output..

Anyway, cool tool! :-)
Manfred says on August 22nd, 2008 at 9:31 am

for anyone who is asking “what means rj?”. here is the answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fxQFly1BQA
michael says on August 22nd, 2008 at 10:07 am

Hey everyone. Here is an update on realityjockey. We have a new home at http://www.rjdj.me Would be great to meet you all there.

Lovely, goodbye and thanks for all the fish ;-)
Lovely Systems » Blog Archive » Lovely, goodbye and thanks for all the fish ;-) says on August 24th, 2008 at 9:57 pm

[...] … quoting Michael on the last comment on the Reality Jockey post of July 3rd, 2007. [...]

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