I have decided to release some http remotes, written in vb, to you guys.

These apps are not perfect by any means, but they do work.

Most of my coding troubles came when trying to figure out how to get information from the player. I wanted to import /proc/empeg_screen.png into the remote, but it is a nonstandard format for .png, so visual basic would not recognize it as such. (I even tried using the browser control element from in the remote. This worked, but used well over 30% of system resources, so no go!)

I eventually gave up on /proc/empeg_screen.png and ended up just parsing /proc/empeg_notify for track info. It polls the player about every second and is very easy on system resources.

I hope you guys will find these useful. Feel free to modify them in any way. If somebody can get the empeg display into one I'd be really interested in seeing it. I'd also like to see a remote like this done in Java...Jemplode has a very nice Grab Empeg Screen function that could be incorporated.

Have fun,
-Jason