Not really a solution, just a quick fix for now. May be broken by the next Remote update.

It is just a preview (to tease you guys ).
It doesn’t support compression and encryption yet.
And you cannot control volume on remote speakers.
And there’s also a huge (about 2 seconds) delay comparing to local playback.

And what it does have? Well, a tiny menu item called AirPlay under Playback menu. When you check a discovered station under AirPlay menu, foobar starts streaming music to it.
Also there’s an API for future integration with TouchRemote to allow renderer selection (like iTunes does).
And that’s it, for now

Of course, it requires Bonjour installed. But you already have one, right?
And though it doesn’t support compression yet, it already requires QuickTime Player to be installed.
This time is written in pure C++, so no .NET framework needed. Everything else seems to be linked statically, and no additional references are required.

Got here? Still wanna try?
Here you go: foo_airplay 0.1.0.0!

If you think memory usage is still high, please download ProcessMonitor and watch foobar’s “.NET Performance” page while using Remote:

Take records on how “# Total commited Bytes”, “# Total reserved Bytes” and other parameters change during run time – that would help to resolve your issues.

And a little teaser of 0.2.5:

Features:
- Gets and sets song ratings (foo_playcount required).
- Uses common titleformat strings rather than fixed tags to get track information. They are hardcoded for now, but could be made customizable in the future.

Fixes:
- Memory usage optimized (a bit).
- When shutting down correct statuses are now sent to Remote.
- Less updates are sent when playback state changes.

Download: foo_touchremote 0.2.3

- Fixed occasional JIT error when pairing with device.
- Fixed random foobar crashes.
- Volume and seekbar sliders are quite smooth now.

Download: foo_touchremote 0.2.2.1

Requirements:

• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or higher;
• Bonjour;
• Remote app on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.

Grab and try: foo_touchremote 0.2.1.2

Album view on NP screen finally works, but no rating yet. I’m not sure if writing a value into ‘rating’ field would be enough, especially when the file is locked/read-only. That would be great if it is saved in the metadb and not in file tags.

Sorting is worked almost as expected. Still cannot get numbers to follow latin letters, so there’s no jump letters in this release. Couldn’t find any pre-defined locale which sorts things in that way. Maybe need to add some hacks…

Anyway, grab it to find new bugs

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.