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[ama_mmmc]

I am using the latest version of MC9, and absolutely love it.  I am just finishing up 18 months of treatment for a Brain Tumor, (all is going well) but I need a vacation, so I am planning on driving up and down the east coast with my laptop providing a temporary solution rather than bringing all my cd's.  

Here is my question.  I have to log in to the computer anyway, so I don't mind having some interaction with my laptop, but I would like to have a simple way to do a couple of things.  Next, previous, Play/Pause, Stop.  Any playlists that I create, I will create and load after I boot up the machine for the day.  I mayb fill the 6gb of space that I have in the playing now, and let it fly.  Volume will not be a problem either as that can be contolled through the stereo.

The quesiton is, can I use a 10 key keypad, and map funtions to it, and could someone point me in the write direction?  I am no programmer, so I was hoping to get somthing that was not to tough.  I do not have the 10 key yet, but maybe it will be come apparent when I bought it.  The idea is I don't want to spend a lot of money on this, as it is only a 3 month trip, then I need to think about returning to work with my laptop.

Thanks  Drew

[JimH]

Hi Drew,
Glad you're done with treatment.  The drive sounds like fun.

My two thoughts would be using a mult-media keyboard (something small?) or an IR receiver and a remote.  UIRT2 (USB IR receiver) is supported.

Here's a little more:
http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/remote.html

MC Options has a remote section.  Any universal remote could be programmed.

[bspachman]

You can also use Girder (http://www.girder.nl) with the bundled GML.

You would find the functions you wanted to control within the GML and learn the keypress you wanted to use to activate the function. Any keyboard/keypad should work with this setup.

Best,
Brad