Posted on Jan 31st 2010 by pieceofsummer.
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.
Posted on Jan 14th 2010 by pieceofsummer.
Hello people!
Many of you have probably updated to foobar 1.0 and noticed artwork configuration available. This is really cool, but API is a little different from the old one, so foo_w7shell couldn’t use benefits of new album art extractor.
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.
Posted on Oct 17th 2009 by pieceofsummer.
First public build. No library support, no search, possibly buggy 
Posted on Sep 22nd 2009 by pieceofsummer.
iPhone Remote support plugin (foo_touchremote) is an implementation of DACP server for foobar2000. The key feature of Apple’s version of DAAP is using Bonjour for discovery, so you need Bonjour Service (usually you already have one installed with iTunes).
Version 0.1 introduces initial library support.
Quick Start: go to the plugin settings page and pair with your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Try foo_touchremote 0.1.2.1 now!
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Posted on Sep 21st 2009 by pieceofsummer.
iTunes has a brilliant feature to browse local library and control playback using iPhone and WiFi. The only thing is that I like foobar, not iTunes. The question is why not to use a free iPhone client to control it as well?..
So I’m starting a foo_touchremote project to make love between foobar and iPhone running Remote. Stay tuned!
Posted on Aug 30th 2009 by pieceofsummer.
You wanted Aero Peek and Flip3D? Well, you’ve got it.
Personally I think these features are useless for foobar. And a bit buggy:
- Image of the same size as thumbnail looks ugly in Flip3D (I have no idea why MS decided to show thumbnail instead of live preview there).
- Window must to be shown at least once to make Aero Peek working. It’s a common issue for any app.
- Too frequent painting of a live preview image drains a lot of CPU, so it is made not so “live” as it should.
- When window is maximized, there are some glitches with its frame size in Peek mode.
Blame MS for all that stuff
P.S. I’m still on RC, so someone should test it on RTM. I wanna to know if something changed.
Posted on May 1st 2009 by pieceofsummer.
Looking at Google Analytics I’ve found out that somebody came to this site looking for solution of WASAPI issue. Well, maybe it should be here
On builds before 7068 WASAPI was working as expected. But all newer builds (up to RC1 7100) cause it to throw “unrecoverable playback error: could not open device 88890020″.
I don’t know what exactly does it mean, but I know how to fix it. The default 1000 ms buffer size does not fit for some reason, so you should decrease it – 500 (and less) ms buffer is ok. Note that this number could vary for different hardware.
Well, maybe it’s not a perfect solution, but it does work for now!
Posted on Apr 28th 2009 by pieceofsummer.
This is almost a complete code rewrite.
It should have better performance and no stupid glitches (I hope) of previous version.
Go to product page to read more.
Quick download: foo_cuefilter 0.1.7.
Posted on Mar 29th 2009 by pieceofsummer.
This release introduces new experimental feature: playlist list in jumplist (OMG! A lot of “lists” around.) Now you can change playlist without opening main window – just choose one from foobar’s context menu.
Also there are two new icons for “play” and “preferences”. Hope they’re not very awful…
Go to product page to read more.
Quick download: foo_w7shell 0.2.7.0.
Posted on Mar 17th 2009 by pieceofsummer.
This is minor release. It should solve an issue with thumbnail flipped vertically in late betas (7057).
It also doesn’t crash anymore on foobar2000 update/reinstallation, when foobar runs without creating a window.
Go to product page to read more.
Quick download: foo_w7shell 0.2.6.2.
