Description:
A Pocket PC - based remote control for foobar2000.
Features:
- Control foobar2000 from your Pocket PC.
- Access all playlists and tracks in your collection.
- Currently playing track is highlighted in the playlist.
- Display album art for currently playing track.
- Change volume and playback order.
- Skinnable user interface.
- Supports UTF-8 encoding.
- Supports QVGA (240x320), Square QVGA (240x240), VGA (480x640) and Square VGA (480x480) resolutions.
Installation:
- Download PocketBar using the link above.
- Open the zip file and run setup.exe (you may need to extract the contents first).
- Open foo_controlserver-1.0.2.zip and extract "foo_controlserver.dll" to "C:\Program Files\foobar2000\components\" (or wherever you installed foobar2000). You don't need the other files in that archive.
- If foobar2000 is running, restart it.
Note: You need this version of foo_controlserver. Other versions will not function properly with PocketBar.
Displaying album art:
Put your album art images in "/Program Files/PocketBar/AlbumArt/". The filenames should be in the format "Artist - Album.jpg". Invalid characters should be replaced with an underscore. For example, the album art for "Megadeth - Still Alive...And Well?" should be named "Megadeth - Still Alive...And Well_.jpg".
For display on a normal 240x320 device, the images should be 95x95 pixels in size. For display on a VGA device, the images should be 190x190.
This software is provided free-of-charge. If you like it, please consider donating a small amount.
Update Description:
v1.2 (17-10-2008):
- The currently playing track is now highlighted in the playlist.
- Added horizontal scrollbar to the search result box.
- Added reconnect menu item, which appears when connection to the server is lost.
- Fixed a bug where the play and pause buttons wouldn't work when no track had been played since foobar2000 was started.
v1.1 (21-07-2008):
- Added album art support (see AlbumArt/ReadMe.txt for more info).
- Added horizontal scrollbar to the playlist box.
- Fixed a bug that kept PocketBar from realizing the server had gone down.
v1.0.3 (31-05-2008):
- Fixed a bug where PocketBar would not realize the track had changed.
v1.0.2 (13-05-2008):
- Added UTF-8 support in client.
- Added a 1.5 second delay after connect before requesting playlists, to make sure the request isn't lost.
- Fixed a localization problem where the time and volume trackbars wouldn't update correctly on some configurations.
