Foobar2000 Copilot Lite
v1.1.0.0 -- available in the Microsoft App Store February 7, 2018
This is the free version of the app. The flashlight feature was removed from the app, since most people already have a flashlight app. Windows 10 mobile includes a flashlight option built into Settings. I originally put that option into the app since many times I listen to my audio system while sitting on my sofa in the dark.
The Microsoft Advertising ad component was also removed from the app. Only the cross platform advertising adDuplex component is used. You will see an adDuplex ad now at the top of the Search page of the app, there are no other ads used anywhere else in the app.
Removing the flashlight feature and the Microsoft ad control allowed removing almost all the store permissions needed for the app.
The flashlight option needed camera permissions since the LED light on Windows phone is a part of the camera module. Hence why all flashlight apps in the Windows Phone store require camera permissions. I may take out the flashlight option the next time I update Foobar2000 Copilot as well.
Because the app uses your Wi-Fi connection to communicate with and control your Foobar2000 server, it still needs network permissions
Also it needs Internet access if you view the online user manual thru the app using Wi-Fi. The user manual in the old version v1.2.0.0 was removed from the app and placed online on this website. The user manual is online so it can be edited without having to get the app re-certified by Microsoft for each edit. The online manual uses the Google translation widget to provide different language translations.
Foobar2000 Copilot App
v1.3.0.0 -- available in the Microsoft App Store January 12, 2018
This is a major release with significant changes :
Display of album art and library searches have been added.
The entire user interface has been recoded and streamlined for a cleaner look.
The Spanish language is supported in this version. All text strings in the app are no longer embedded in the app, but rather are table based, so supporting additional languages in the future should be easier -- mainly entailing providing translated versions of that table.
This version requires use of the updated Foobar2000 control server component (foo_controlserver) v1.1.5 or higher.
v1.2.0.0 - has no album art or library search.
V1.0.0.0 - initial release
Foobar2000 Control Server (foo_controlserver) Plug-in
All versions of this component, including the full source code for each version, are archived in Github.
See: https://github.com/audiohead/foo_controlserver/releases
v1.1.5 Jan 2018 - updates by Walter Hartman
- Updated socket message sending due to potential performance issues, optimized code for larger album art and playlist messages.
v1.1.5 is backwards compatible with the original v1.0.2. So you can use it with all prior versions of Foobar2000 Copilot.
However, if you want to see album art and perform media library searches in Foobar2000 Copilot version 1.3.0.0, you will need to use this version of the component (v1.1.5).
v1.1.4 Oct 2017 - updates by Walter Hartman
- Added track title and album title to the 'now playing' album art msg response
v1.1.4 is backwards compatible with the original v1.0.2. So you can use it with all prior versions of Foobar2000 Copilot.
v1.1.3 Sept 2017 - updates by Walter Hartman
- Rebuilt using newer VS2015 Community Edition
- Rebuilt with the new Foobar2000 SDK version 2015-08-03
- Updated preferences dialog to use the new foobar2000 SDK APIs
(you will no longer see the 'this is a legacy preferences page' warning)
- Added IP address display of local PC to preferences screen
- Added get album art command, returns image (jpg or png), encoded as a base64 string
- Added media library search command
- Fixed some bugs related to the 'now playing' track
v1.0.2 2007 - foo_controlserver baseline version by Jason Poloski, the original developer of the component