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Main => Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Forum => Topic started by: Taborious on January 04, 2006, 01:25:43 pm

Title: Jukebox Apps and Remotes
Post by: Taborious on January 04, 2006, 01:25:43 pm

Just in the planning stages for my jukebox and I was wondering are there any widgets out there that will allow you to use a remote control with your PC? Some USB infared device or anything???

Title: Re: Jukebox Apps and Remotes
Post by: sollyscomputers on January 04, 2006, 02:28:39 pm

If you use windows XP Media Centre edition, you can use a remote control if you buy the infra red unit.

Title: Re: Jukebox Apps and Remotes
Post by: Taborious on January 04, 2006, 04:05:30 pm

Do any of the jukebox apps out there support this infared device or is it windows supports it so the app will recognize it...???

Title: Re: Jukebox Apps and Remotes
Post by: NinjaEpisode on January 04, 2006, 04:20:44 pm

There is one device that is Media Center specific, and other third party devices that have been known to work using different tools.

Medio will use the same controller.  And there are Grid products that will take third party controllers and convert them to be used with Medio.

My advice, find yourself a good RF Mouse Pointing device and a Jukebox software that supports Mouse Interaction, which is pretty much all of them.

Otherwise, I'd probably be looking at something like a streaming media device like the Audiotron or the Omnifi from Fosgate.

Title: Re: Jukebox Apps and Remotes
Post by: Roughy on January 04, 2006, 06:52:46 pm

Or, bypass the entire jukebox thing and get a SlimDevices player...

www.slimdevices.com

Title: Re: Jukebox Apps and Remotes
Post by: Taborious on January 05, 2006, 11:19:33 am

The SlimDevice wouldn't be nearly as fun to put up. Plus you really can't "look" at the music and scroll through a selecetion or view album covers, etc...

I'll have to see if I can get a copy of the windows media center and play around with some things...

Title: Re: Jukebox Apps and Remotes
Post by: GoldnRd on January 05, 2006, 12:44:32 pm

i used this  (http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=316)with girder (http://www.promixis.com/).

Title: Re: Jukebox Apps and Remotes
Post by: SalmonKing on January 05, 2006, 05:29:16 pm

Quote from: GoldnRd on January 05, 2006, 12:44:32 pm

i used this  (http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=316)with girder (http://www.promixis.com/).   It looks like newer versions of girder are not free, but the older versions were.   I got my remote off ebay for around 5 dollers so the whole thing was about 10 bucks with shipping.

I could never get this sucker working, so if you can let me know how you have it setup, that would be nice!  I tried every combination of settings, but even the remote that comes with the unit would come up as the exact same command every time, no matter what button I pushed.

Title: Re: Jukebox Apps and Remotes
Post by: GoldnRd on January 05, 2006, 07:02:17 pm

I attatched my girder control file.   Just rename to GML

Plugin's I used in girder

Internet Event Client
Internet Event Server
Send Message
Keyboard
Keyboard Driver
UIR/IRman/IRA/CTInfra/Hollywood+ Plugin

Title: Re: Jukebox Apps and Remotes
Post by: SalmonKing on January 05, 2006, 09:01:42 pm

Quote from: GoldnRd on January 05, 2006, 07:02:17 pm

I attatched my girder control file.   Just rename to GML

Plugin's I used in girder

Internet Event Client
Internet Event Server
Send Message
Keyboard
Keyboard Driver
UIR/IRman/IRA/CTInfra/Hollywood+ Plugin

Thanks, will give it another go when I get some time!   :D