Signal - The Ultimate Remote Control for Your PC's Media Player

Signal 1.0.2 was released last week, this version includes full support for the iPod Touch, an updated view for the playlist, a software update notification interface for Windows, and several stability and performance fixes. Full details are available in the releases notes.

In particular, the iPhone version is now much better at handling situations where the iPhone initially wakes up on EDGE and transitions to Wi-Fi. Signal will now automatically detect that it does not have a connection and queue up commands to be sent as soon as the iPhone re-joins the Wi-Fi network. This means you can wake up the iPhone and tap pause/play, next track, etc without having to worry about whether or not the iPhone is on the cellular data network – Signal will take care of getting that command sent as soon as there is a connection.

There have been some questions about whether or not Signal will support the newly-announced iPod touch. Since the new iPod includes Mobile Safari just like the iPhone it’s very likely that the iPhone version of Signal will run identically on the iPod Touch. Of course we can’t make any promises until the device is released – as soon as it’s available we’ll grab one and post back here with our findings.

Update: It works! A couple of tweaks were needed to redirect to the iPhone/iPod interface properly and to support some minor changes that have been made in the newer version of Mobile Safari. These were included in the 1.0.2 update, which is now available.