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

All future releases of foo_touchremote will use the following sort rules:
1. Inside single album view songs are ordered by song number. Songs without song number would come before the others in alphabetical order.
2. In all other places (search results, all albums view, all tracks) songs are ordered alphabetically despite song number, album and other fields.
That’s all. It is what Remote expects from server.

The only question is how to treat non-letter characters (numbers, special symbols) when sorting. Should they prepend latin letters or come after them (like iTunes does)?
And what to do with non-latin letters? The options are to use navigation letters and let all non-latin characters appear as ‘#’, or just keep it as is without any letters at all.

Wanna to hear what you think of all that things.

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.

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and post your results in this topic.

Plugin is built with a new SDK, so it will run only on foobar2k 1.0 or later.

Here’s a download link for you: foo_touchremote 0.1.0.0.

Also I’m going to use 1.0 SDK for foo_touchremote, but it would break compatibility with older foobar versions. So I’d like to ask if you really need that 0.9.x support? If you don’t, 0.9.x support will be dropped, so vote in the comments!

I have also updated to the latest foobar version, so made a fix for the plugin and named it 0.2.9. You could get it at the download page, as usual.
It is built with the new SDK and works only on foobar 1.0 (or later). Those of you who is still on 0.9.x branch should use previous versions of the plugin.

Also I have a request to those of you who has a MacBook and a not-Touch iPod (i.e. Classic, Nano, etc.). Please post in the comments how does the player appear in the Mac OS X. Is it mounted to some directory (which exactly?) as a removable drive just like in Windows?

BTW, the first alpha build of a foo_touchremote is almost here. There’s still a lot of things to do (it doesn’t even support a library yet), but there should be something to start with, right?..

P.S. Setting version too old produces such a nice message