Re: Remote touchscreen for audio delivery at dance studio?

["Gene" <no_one@xxxxxxxxx>]

I did a situation similar to yours and simply used an Ipod with a FM Griffin
transmitter plugged into it and used a FM receiver with speakers to play the
music. Select, play, pause and control the volume at your fingertips right
off the Ipod without any goofing around with a computer or CD changer. Of
course you have to load up the Ipod but a couple of hours of work and your
set plus the music is portable. We did use two Ipods to insure always having
one ready to go.


"D.R." <gisdsuaho1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We are working with a dance studio to make it a bit easier on the
> instructors.
>
> Currently they have their various music burned onto cd's and loaded
> into a Sony 5 disk changer.
>
> As you can imagine, while the class is there an instructor has to walk
> over to the audio setup, cue up the song after locating it on the
> desired cd and the desired track, and walk back and work with the
> students.  If necessary to pause or stop the music, it's another trip
> over to the audio gear, pause it, shout over to the students (or walk
> back) then start the music again.
>
> My desire is to convert their music over to mp3 and have a reasonably
> sized touch panel at the edge of the dance floor.
>
> They have computers in the office with the music on them which I can
> wire to any point (the audio stack or the touch panel, or both).
>
> So my question is a call for suggestions for the remote panel, and
> what would deliver to it.  Is it necessary to have Media Center on a
> computer to deliver?
>
> In a nut shell, here is what we have around the rectangular dance
> floor.  Audio gear in one corner, office with computers with music on
> hard drive in diagonal corner, desired control point for instructor
> half way between.
>
> Thanks in advance