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foo_touchremote 0.1.1

pieceofsummer — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:56:44 +0000

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.

foo_w7shell 0.2.9

pieceofsummer — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:35:31 +0000

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.

foo_touchremote 0.0.5 alpha

pieceofsummer — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:26:30 +0000

First public build. No library support, no search, possibly buggy

iPhone Remote support

pieceofsummer — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:02:54 +0000

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!

History

Feb 7 2010: Version 0.1.2.1.

Fixes XP compatibility issue of 0.1.2

Feb 6 2010: Version 0.1.2.

Sorting according to client hints
Search makes no difference between letters with grave, acute etc. (requires Vista or later)
Album tracks when flipped from Now Playing screen (but no rating yet)
Pairing now uses foobar’s built-in http client (and doesn’t rely on WinInet and IE settings anymore)

Jan 31 2010: Version 0.1.1.

Library support
Autoplaylist from library selection
Traffic compression
New (foobar 1.0) album art configuration support

Nov 04 2009: Version 0.0.7.1.

Better pairing
Fixed crash on exit on WinXP

Oct 30 2009: Version 0.0.6.

Some minor fixes
Ability to control process or system-wide volume instead of foobar’s built-in one

Oct 17 2009: Initial public build 0.0.5 alpha.

iPhone Remote App + foobar2000

pieceofsummer — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:58:19 +0000

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!

foo_w7shell 0.2.8

pieceofsummer — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:46:28 +0000

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.

foobar2000: WASAPI on Windows7

pieceofsummer — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:18:11 +0000

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!

foo_cuefilter 0.1.7

pieceofsummer — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:20:05 +0000

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.

foo_w7shell 0.2.7.0

pieceofsummer — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:56:05 +0000

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.

foo_w7shell 0.2.6.2 released

pieceofsummer — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:20:48 +0000

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.