Webmc - A Web Based Controller for Windows Media Center

Webmc is a simple touchscreen based music controller for Windows Media Center. The UI is simple by design - I just want to browse my music collection to play albums without having to turn my TV on. The toughest requirement is that my wife has to be able to use it! Webmc has three parts:

The screen shots below show the main features of the UI:

  • Volume down/up/mute buttons
  • Output sound to TV, Speakers buttons
  • Play/Pause
  • Playing media status
  • Close popup
  • Scroll artists left
  • Jump to artists starting with these letters (multiple presses cycle through the letters)
  • Scroll artists right
  • Albums arranged by artist
screen dump 1

Album popup

  • Album details
  • Track Listing
  • Play now button
  • Queue button
screen dump 2

Download and Installation

Download the windows installer. After installing, re-start Windows Media Player. Then point a web browser at localhost host port 40960. I only have Windows 7-64 bit machines, and do not guarantee that this works on any machines other than mine! Please send me feedback on your experiences using Webmc. Be aware, that this is just a hobby project of mine and I am not necessarily able to repond quickly to problems.


Information for hackers


Previous Versions

A older version that is based on VMCController and requires a local PHP server, is available here. It works, but is slower and not as polished as the version above.