foo_touchremote 0.1.1
Here’s a small update for all of you, people.
Now you can browse and play your library music. Selected albums or search results are now loaded into auto-playlist on the foobar’s side.
Also compression of data was added. Almost all output traffic is gzipped, so loading large numbers of tracks should be faster now. Album art is not compressed, but it is now resized as requested by iPhone app.
Known bugs:
- Currently playing track list (those you ‘flip’ on the NP screen to set ratings) is not working.
- No shortcut letters in the lists. Seems Remote supports only latin letters, making anything else to be ‘#’. That require me to change sort order (latin letters first, numbers and all other letters next), and it is not so cool. Need to think on how to override that behavior.
- Any library changes are reflected only after foobar restart. That should be fixed soon.
As it is usable somehow, download link is posted to the product page, so grap it there.
Patrick on January 31st, 2010 at 05:39
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is so good!
I am trying to figure out how the tagging works. In places where “Artist” and “Album Artist” are different, which tag is it going to use?
I will get it sorted.
Only one problem i am running into other than the issues you already mentioned. And that is, when choosing an Album in the “Album List” it sorts the tracks alphabetically rather than by track order. Is this correctable? It would be great to see them in order here.
Really nice job POS. It is getting so close. As it stands now it is very usable though.
Thanks again!
pieceofsummer on January 31st, 2010 at 05:57
“Album Artist” is used in case it is present, “Artist” otherwise. “Artist” has priority only in the track list and NP screen title. Search is performed across both fields.
I’ve already thought about sorting tracks according to theirs track numbers, but that makes sense only when they belong to the same album. Anyway, there are some sorting hints from client, which should be respected (that is one of the to-do items).
Patrick on January 31st, 2010 at 09:33
POS,
I think that in album and artist view it really needs to follow track listing order. OF course that just like my opinion man, sincerely Lebowski.
But seriously, when else would you not want the songs in order, even if a custom playlist?
Thanks again POS. This is the best component ever. It is totally adding to my music experience.
More $$$ coming your way. I try to put it where my mouth is….
Patrick on January 31st, 2010 at 09:34
Also, is it unreasonable to want it to you Artist first then Album Artist? What do you and others think?
thanks. -p
Patrick on January 31st, 2010 at 13:28
POS,
I am very intrigued at your mass tagger comment? What is your suggestion? Should I copy all of my “artist” tags to “album artist” so they match?
My artist tags are FULLY dialed throughout. I have spent most of the night verifying this? E.g., I made sure the “Artist” was AC/DC for every album. Then reloaded foobar. My remote app still showed:
ACDC
AC-DC
AC/DC
Two albums were not “AC/DC”, Highway to Hell and Back In Black. All of the others showed in “AC/DC”. It turns out there were “Album Artist” as something else for those two albums. I have alot of these it seems. For all of my classical I have “Artist” as “Mozart” and “Album Artist” as “London Philharmonic” I am guessing this is backwards from the norm.
In all of my years of ripping and occasional retagging, I have never changed or specified “Album Artist”. I have “Album Artist” in about 20% of my music (if that) and most of them are the trouble items.
I click on “Artist” in Remote App and I see things like “1996″, “4″, “FLAC”, where for some reason “Album Artist” was not correctly specified. Yet ALL of my “Artist” tags are perfect.
That being said…. is there a way of making the setting such that “Artist” is used before “Album Artist”??? If not as the default, maybe it could be a setting option we could choose?
I am guessing, pure conjecture, that most files out there are tagged correctly by “Artist” more often than “Album Artist”. Unless it is a various artist, tribute, or other album where someone carefully tagged.
I always thought that if it was, e.g., Yo Yo Ma playing Bach, that the “Album Artist” was YoYoMa, and the “Artist” was Bach. That way all Bach is found under “Bach”. I see how I could have been backwards on that. But nevertheless, I think “Artist” is ALWAYS used whereas “Album Artist” is not and is often wrong….
Just a thought…. too many beers and too much wine…. and some tequila.
loving the component,
p
Patrick on January 31st, 2010 at 13:29
pieceofsummer on January 31st, 2010 at 05:57
“Album Artist” is used in case it is present, “Artist” otherwise. “Artist” has priority only in the track list and NP screen title. Search is performed across both fields.
AHHHH. Thats why I was so confused regarding priority. It looked right on the NP screen but not in Artist List.
Juan on January 31st, 2010 at 15:00
Great improvements with this build, the network trafic is almost none and the NP animations are fluent, in this regards there is no difference with itunes.
Terrific
pieceofsummer on January 31st, 2010 at 15:40
Patrick, you asked about directory structure, so I guess you have it correct. So just use masstagger to guess Album Artist (and possibly genre, year and others) from file location. Also that would make all artist’ names to look in the same manner.
Sort order is a thing to reconcider.
Patrick on February 1st, 2010 at 01:03
POS,
I see that the “tag and rename” program can copy the tags from one field to another.
I will have it copy all of my “Artists” over to “Album Artist”. That should take care of things.
thanks again POS.
you rock!
Urs on February 1st, 2010 at 01:41
What a great plug-in! Hats off! I have waited for something like this since months. It’s very, very useable in it’s current status. I hope the bug you already described (Currently playing track list (those you ‘flip’ on the NP screen to set ratings) is not working.) is close to the top of your priority list. Many thanks for your excellent work, it’s very much appreciated!
Juan on February 1st, 2010 at 08:09
There is a funtion that I`ve always missed also in the itunes version, and that maybe can be implemented: controling the volume of the remote with the iphone left side volume bottons.
Juan on February 1st, 2010 at 08:50
When clicking into an album, the order of the songs seems scrambled
ET on February 3rd, 2010 at 01:11
Great plugin. I cannot wait for future updates. Will it ever be possible to see the %rating% tag and re-tag the song via the Apple remote? Also, on the “now playing” screen which shows the album art, there is a small button on the top right. When clicked its proper behavior shows all tracks from the now playing album. However, it just seems to show random songs with foo_touchremote.
Patrick on February 4th, 2010 at 18:37
ET,
he is working on it right now. Check out the newer thread.
Littlesloth on April 3rd, 2010 at 14:23
Hey great tool
Just two comments:
a) bug? directly after selecting a play list and pressing “random order” (displayed on top of the list content) foobar crashes (0.1.2.1 foo_touchremote, foobar 1.01, already has random order selected)
b) search results are much less than in foobar’s search. maybe because “title” or “filename” is not included in search? Hint: missing files are ape, wav or flac or titles given within a cue sheet only.
Anyway, absolutely great and I certainly will continue donating… Thank you.
pieceofsummer on April 3rd, 2010 at 17:19
Littlesloth, filename is definitely not included in search. Apple’s way is to completely ignore file names (and even rename them when added to the library) and rely only on tags, so there’s no way to make Remote app think other way.
But titles should definitely be searched for. Please double-check titles from cue files are not searched, because the other users (including myself) seems not to experience such a trouble.
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