Search without a remote?

okay, i read alot of the faq and i'm stumped. hijack can allow you to have the 'search' command in the PopUp# menus. what i don't understand is wtf to press after the search by pin# appears. i pretty much tried all the buttons and they do nothing...so it gets me nowhere.

i know that i could continue touse the remote but i figured it was enabled on the menu so we could search without the remote somehow. it seems silly to open the search dialog with a front panel button only to continue the process using the remote to find a song/playlist.

as i'm typing this, the "(new users: Please READ THE FAQ before posting" is heckling me...

The left and right front panel buttons will scroll through the search list. So in theory, if you could make a search come up on the front panel (would have to be able to press the search button more than once), you could select a title or an artist or whatever just by pressing the left and right front panel buttons enough times.

But that's really less efficient than just having well-organized playlists and scrolling through those. At least with the playlists, you can use the knob to speed-scroll if you want. Without the alphanumeric features of the remote control, scrolling through the search screen would require hundreds of button presses instead of just a few. Heck, I can find most tunes much faster by scrolling through my playlists than I can with the search function even when I have the remote.

That's why this FAQ entry says "Alphanumeric searches (by artist, by title, etc.) Front Panel: No Remote: Yes."

i agree 100% but i just thought perhaps everyone here knew something i didn't :P like i said, it's available in the menu so i just had to know

The FAQ Master.

And just think, if you wanted, you could go back in time and prevent me from even buying an empeg...

Heh...the Back to the Future references never end...

Will Hijack let you do "Search by Title" (== long press of search)? I've never played with popup menus, so this is a stab in the dark...

i dunno since it's mapped to the knob right now and a long press will open the hijack menu. when i got the player inside i'll try it on the bottom button

What I meant was using something like "Search.L" on the right-hand-side.

Something like

[ir_translate]
PopUp0=Shuffle,Info,Mark,Search.L

The Hijack site says that

Items on a PopUp menu must are never translated, which means they are restricted to sending a single button code at a time. While it might be useful sometimes to have a menu item send multiple button codes, this was not possible to implement in any reasonable fashion inside Hijack, so it ain't there.

I wonder if this applies to the .L modifier, too?

Perhaps it would be an idea to take this up in the Programming forum...

I was wondering about this, too. My battery died on my remote and all the convenience stores have been closed from hurricane Lilly. But I'll be able to get a new one tommorow.

I don't remember whether .L works or not from a Popup, but.. the same result is possible simply by holding the knob longer when selecting any action from a PopUp. Eg. when using "Info" from a PopUp, one can press and hold to get "Detail" instead of Info. So a longpress of Search is certainly easy enough to achieve in the same fashion.

Cheers