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#5836 - 24/08/1999 00:27 Remote Freedom!
jfranke
member

Registered: 09/06/1999
Posts: 124
What would help me a lot: to have full control over the IR-buttons. E.g. i will probably never listen to radio - so i do not need the preset 1-9 buttons. What i really would like to control instead would be, to jump from a playlist to the next with just a keystroke. I mean, i organize my tracks in CD's, so i do have a playlist for each CD. That would give me the possibility to jump between my CD's. Thanks! AO


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#5837 - 24/08/1999 05:18 Re: Remote Freedom! [Re: jfranke]
Kram
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Registered: 23/06/1999
Posts: 42
Loc: Cambridge, England
"Skip to next inner playlist" as I've been calling it and which as you say is like skipping to the next CD if you arrange your tracks as if the Empeg was one huge CD player is right up there at the top of the list I've been asking Hugo and co. to consider adding. I think the current status (as of last week when I was there picking up a second cradle) is that they will add it in a later beta release as a button on the remote and as a menu item, but probably not as a simple front panel button press as the buttons are overloaded as it is.

Cheers,

Mark.


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#5838 - 24/08/1999 08:29 Re: Remote Freedom! (double clicking buttons...) [Re: Kram]
andy
carpal tunnel

Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5914
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
I'm wondering if we need the ability to "double-click" the buttons, to get us another four functions...

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#5839 - 24/08/1999 09:17 Re: Remote Freedom! (double clicking buttons...) [Re: andy]
steve
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Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 48
Loc: Cambridge, UK
Double clicking is _not_ a good idea. I'm lucky if I can get my
normal radio to turn on one time out of two. It's one push for on,
one push for off, and it's just blind luck whether I hit the button
an odd or even number of times. Doing this on 4 buttons is going to
be a nightmare.
(The wired remote for the steering wheel looks ever more tempting...)

Steve.

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#5840 - 24/08/1999 11:54 Remote options [Re: Kram]
Clarke
journeyman

Registered: 18/08/1999
Posts: 90
Loc: Scottsdale, AZ USA
What about pressing two buttons on the remote at the same time? The Kenwood remote looks like the am/fm buttons are grouped. If they send a different code when both are pressed at the same time it would be easy to add that as skip to next playlist. I'd love that feature too.

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#5841 - 24/08/1999 14:20 Re: Remote Freedom! (double clicking buttons...) [Re: steve]
CHiP
enthusiast

Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 345
Loc: New Jersey, USA
What's wrong with double clicking the unit's buttons, and not the remote's buttons?



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#5842 - 24/08/1999 15:46 Re: Remote Freedom! (double clicking buttons...) [Re: steve]
andy
carpal tunnel

Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5914
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
Double clicking is _not_ a good idea

It was a joke guys, I can't see it working either.

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#5843 - 25/08/1999 10:48 Re: Remote Freedom! (double clicking buttons...) [Re: andy]
mac
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Registered: 20/05/1999
Posts: 411
Loc: Cambridge, UK
I'm wondering if we need the ability to "double-click" the buttons, to get us another four functions...

Maybe we should get rid of all but one of the buttons and you can type in what you like at a command prompt using morse code. :-)

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#5844 - 25/08/1999 10:50 Re: Remote Freedom! [Re: jfranke]
mac
addict

Registered: 20/05/1999
Posts: 411
Loc: Cambridge, UK
What would help me a lot: to have full control over the IR-buttons. E.g. i will probably never listen to radio - so i do not need the preset 1-9 buttons. What i really would like to control instead would be, to jump from a playlist to the next with just a keystroke. I mean, i organize my tracks in CD's, so i do have a playlist for each CD. That would give me the possibility to jump between my CD's.

The buttons have different uses in the different input modes so the only button that is wasted by not using the radio is the TUNER button.

There are lots of plans in this area. Keep your eye out for the release notes for future versions.

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#5845 - 25/08/1999 10:52 Re: Remote options [Re: Clarke]
mac
addict

Registered: 20/05/1999
Posts: 411
Loc: Cambridge, UK
What about pressing two buttons on the remote at the same time? The Kenwood remote looks like the am/fm buttons are grouped. If they send a different code when both are pressed at the same time it would be easy to add that as skip to next playlist. I'd love that feature too.

Unfortunately they don't. Skip to next playlist will probably be available using some other mechanism in the future.



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