Foobar2000 controller app

2020-02-20 15:24:35

Hi to all,

I am new to foobar and the forum and I would like to enlist the help of members please.

I am running foobar (v1.5.1.)on a windows 10 Pc and it works great. I would like to control the player remotely from an Android device. I have down loaded the ‘Foobar2000 Controller’ App and installed the executable file (v2.0.1.) on the PC from the app developer’s webpage. I have followed all the installation advice and double checked everything.

Unfortunately I am unable to get the app to connect with the PC. The app says it cannot connect with the PC and suggests the IP address is wrong, which it isn’t. The foobar console displays the following error message: foo_httpcontrol error: couldn't load
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\foobar2000\foo_httpcontrol_data\foobar2000controller\config

If I access the foobar preferences dialogue box - HTTP control and click on http://127.0.0.1:8888, I get the following:
Something went wrong: no templates found!
Possible explanation: you forgot to get yourself a template, or extracted it into a wrong place.
Check foobar2000 console (View/console) for path where templates are expected to be found.
Get templates!

Is anyone able to decode these messages for a beginner and tell me what I am doing wrong and what I need to do? Sorry if this has been asked before but most relevant posts relate to more than a few years ago and do not address my issue.

With kind regards

Re: Foobar2000 controller app

Reply #1 – 2022-08-05 11:22:48

You should download "UPnP MediaRenderer Output" for PC and "BubbleUPnP" for Android. In foobar2000, select BubbleUPnP as the output device. "File > Preferences > Playback > Output".

Re: Foobar2000 controller app

Reply #2 – 2022-08-05 17:35:25

Try FoobarCon, this is what I use and it's working. https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,122649.msg1012378.html#msg1012378

Re: Foobar2000 controller app

Reply #3 – 2023-06-08 12:37:45

Hi!
Foobar2000 Controller has been working great for me up to version 1.6.16 of Foobar.
Now I tried to update Foobar to v2.0 that works fine but the plug-in.
I tried every possible variations: 32-bit, 64-bit, refreshing, clean installation... without success.
Everything seems to be ok, but the (Android) phone cannot communicate with Foobar (on the PC).
If I revert to v1.6.16 it works again.
Where is the rub?

Re: Foobar2000 controller app

Reply #4 – 2023-06-08 13:08:21

@Tiller2000

Because the "foo_httpcontrol_data" folder is not in the determined path.
foobar2000 controller - Home
http://foobar2000controller.blogspot.com/
PC installer (v2.0.1)
foobar2000 controller [PC-side setup] v2.0.1.exe
foo_httpcontrol_data
foo_httpcontrol.dll: Do not use this component as it is obsolete
・Since it is not installed in the setting folder, place the folder yourself.

foo_httpcontrol_data (tenplate and setting data) folder
Standard installation
- \AppData\Roaming\foobar2000-v2\foo_httpcontrol_data\foobar2000controller

For your reference: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,124266.msg1028547/topicseen.html#new

Re: Foobar2000 controller app

Reply #5 – 2023-06-09 04:31:56

Worked : Tiller2000
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,124266.msg1028565.html#msg1028565