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silkshadow:
I've got another computer connected to speakers in the closet, but spend time on a desktop without speakers. I can use a remote to control the music with Vista MCE (not using MC), but having the TV on is really distracting, not to mention a waste of electricity. I'd like to be able to run MC server on it instead and fully control the music it plays with access to my library and playlists.

So, anyone know how I can control MC on another machine on the lan? I searched and the webUI is not what I am looking for. Besides being extremely primitive, I am looking for a non web based way to do this. I'm looking to be able to open a "client" MC on the local machine, which plays, queues up songs, has access to playlists and so forth but on another computer on the same LAN. So I want the full MC UI but that passess commands to another machine instead of trying to play music locally.

I realize I should probably be able to find this easily. MC12 advertises much improved network communication, and there is still no 2-way network communication, so I assume remote control is what they are talking about, but I just can't figure it out.

Thanks!

JimH:
Remote Server
NetRemote from promixis.com
MusicLobby from cinemaronline.com

More on servers here:
http://wiki.jrmediacenter.com/index.php/Servers

silkshadow:
Thanks for the reply! The remote server is the WebUI, right? I played with it and its pretty primitive and it requires running a web browser all the time if I want to, for example, just skip to the next track. The others are 3rd party programs, clearly kind of unreasonable to require me to buy those (considering the cost of them :o) just to do remote control, something freeware players do. Again, thanks for the reply. I guess this is a feature request.

Can I inquire what were the network improvements from MC11 to MC12? I can't seem to find any new network features.  ?

Thanks again.

Does anyone have any workarounds they are doing to accomplish something near what I am looking for? Thanks for any advice in this matter!

AndyCircuit:
I'm not sure if I got you fully right...
First a question: where are your music files? On your desktop or the closet machine? (or a home server?)
Perhaps my config is of help for you:
my desktop is a laptop with MC and VNC viewer (VNC is a free remote desktop software, you could use the Windows build in mstsc as well)
my closet machine is with MC and VNC server
Files are on a server with Windows shares.
So, if I don't want to use the TV (connected to the closet machine) I use VNC to control the closet machine with it's MC from my laptop
I can backup my (laptop) library and load it to the closet machine
I can create MC mpl playlists (or m3u) on my laptop and copy them to a folder on the closet machine that is monitored by auto import.
I can control MC in the VNC window like it is on my local machine  (only the 3D visualizations show up very slow ;)  )
This works very well but only because the media files are accessible with the same \\path on both machines
If your files are on the closet machine it's not that easy anymore but still doable

Not really what you was looking for, I know, still a working solution

oias.heeda:
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