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I've just had a major success with the
Phillips
Pronto and automating MusicMatch Jukebox - a proof of concept
anyway.
Following on from my girder post the other day
(free windows automation software at www.girder.nl), I managed to automate the
basic
music functions (play/stop/skip/shuffle/repeat/etc) so I can use them from
my
pronto (or punto as my mate likes to call it :-)
Tonight, I also managed to automate playing
albums/playlists using my IR keyboard. Just to prove the concept I
knocked
up a quick pronto panel containing three album names, learned from
key-combinations on the IR keyboard.
Hey presto - access to my albums/playlists
from the
punto - all *without* having to put the TV on!
How it works:
I have based the IR on loading a 3 or 4 digit
number into the registers in girder - each time a new number is sent the
registers are shifted along to make space for the new number.
Thus if
you have previously entered 12 and you press 3; 1 and 2 get left-shifted
and 3
gets added to the end to make 123. I have then setup another command
(Add
to playlist) to grab that number and construct the name of a playlist from
it -
playlist123.m3u for example. This playlist and corresponding number
will
be auto-generated from the directory listing of my MP3s.
Thus the playlist listing on the pronto simply
aliases the correct number for the playlist 1 - 2 - 3 for example and
follows it with an "add to playlist" IR command.
It should now be a simple task of scripting
all of
my MP3s to generate playlists so I can update numbers/title when I add new
albums or music. I have already seen tools on remotecentral.com for
auto-generating ccf panels for playlists - hopefully this should be pretty
easy
to accomplish.
So, the result is that I can use my punto to
control my jukebox as if it were a CD player and also provide
album/playlist
selection - wahoo!
After figuring out how to use the girder
software,
I am very pleased with the results. I am sure this is just the tip of
the
iceberg since just about anything can be automated - next is to provide a
pronto
button to turn off my lounge PC.
-Dan.
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