Ah, well, then, yes the Stalk interface will work. You'll mostly be restricted to doing things that you could do from the player's front panel (for instance, alphanumeric searches can't be done from the stalk unless you use Emphatic), but I know plenty of people who deliberately leave the remote at home. A list of front-panel-versus-remote features is here.

Please note that you must have the tuner module in order to have the stalk interface.