Originally Posted By: tfabris
By the way, anyone have any docs of all the serial commands you can send to the empeg player to control playback?

For instance I know that "n" <cr> will go to the next track. But what about play/pause and previous track? Are there any others, like for FF/REW that sort of thing?

I would look in the FAQ but it's down. smile


No idea if current but Google found me this at Roger's blog, http://blog.differentpla.net/blog/2003/04/02/empeg-serial-port-commands :

2003-04-02 10:29:00 +0000

You can send the empeg player commands using the serial port. This is a list.

Case is ignored. Some commands do different things, depending on state. Each command usually needs to see LF afterwards.

Menu Navigation
Command Action
M Open menu/select menu item
* Cancel menu
N Next menu item
P Previous menu item

Track Navigation
Command Action
Space Play
C Play
W Pause
N Track Forward
P Track Back
F Start Fast Forward
B Start Rewind
A Cancel FFWD/REW

Visuals/Info
Command Action
V Next Visual
S Next Info
D Next Info
Quitting/Restarting
Command Action
Q Quit the player.
R Restart the player.

Volume Control
Command Action
+ CONTROL_VOLUMEUP
- CONTROL_VOLUMEDOWN
K CONTROL_LOUDNESSDOWN
L CONTROL_LOUDNESSUP

Input Selector
Command Action
[ CONTROL_EMPEG
] CONTROL_TUNER
= CONTROL_AUX

Tuner
Command Action
] CONTROL_TUNER
` CONTROL_RADIO_STORE
; CONTROL_TUNEUP
. CONTROL_TUNEDOWN

Miscellaneous
Command Action
* Mark Track
0-9 CONTROL_NUMBER0-CONTROL_NUMBER9
\ CONTROL_SLUMBER
| M_COMMAND_CACHE_NOW
#_fid_ REPLACE
#_fid_- ENQUEUE
#_fid_+ APPEND
#_fid_! INSERT
~ SuggestDiskSpinning
@ EnsureDiskSpinning
% CONTROL_SHUFFLE
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/Michael