MusicPicker device client allows remote music playback and database collection on a computer or smart objects. Client scans its local music library, establishes connection with Musicpicker and submit its metadata database.

MusicPickerDevice acts as a tray icon and provides user controls for service login, signup and music path's selection. Music is played in background, playback can be managed on musicpicker.net.

Precompiled binaries configured to access musicpicker.net are available on Github Releases.

MusicPickerDevice implements features essential to music playback and remote control.

• User login and signup
• User account and device name switching
• Multiple music library paths selection
• Local database metadata caching
• Support for MP3, WAV and FLAC files
• Database submission to webservice
• Webservice remote control via SignalR

MusicPickerDevice is a Windows Forms project built in C# on .NET Framework 4.5.

It relies on the following dependencies to properly work:

• NAudio for music playback.
• LiteDB for local metadata database.
• Taglib# for metadata reading.
• SocketIoClientDotNet for WebSocket communication.
• Json.NET for JSON (de)serialization.

Dependencies should be retrieved by calling Nuget's restore command.

nuget restore

Whereas precompiled binaries are built to reach musicpicker.net, source controlled app is configured to access service at http://localhost:3000, which is the default bind for Musicpicker in source control.

Service URL is bundled in MusicPickerDevice's source code, in MusicPickerDevice.cs.

You can change it to another URL as you need.

player = new Player(library);
client = new ApiClient(new Uri("http://localhost:3000"));
hubConnection = new HubConnection("http://localhost:3000");

© 2015 Hugo Caille, Pierre Defache & Thomas Fossati.

Musicpicker is released upon the terms of the Apache 2.0 License.