There would be a lot of advantages to having the Empeg output the song information to the serial port. For instance, there's a remote-control applet that you can run on your PC that remote-controls the Empeg from the serial port. This applet requires you to export your song database to the hard disk so it can display song titles- but it wouldn't need this step if the Empeg just output the song data on the serial port.

There are probably dozens of applications for such a capability. I think that making a character generator interface for your Alpine TV screen would be a LOT of work for very little benefit, but I like the idea of putting the song data out on the serial port for other reasons. It could be enabled/disabled in config.ini or something.

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Tony Fabris