This is kind of like the way I use a winamp plugin that creates an HTTP interface to send winamp commands. It’s really nice. I use it with Misterhouse to start playing music automatically when I walk into my office using motion detectors.

Posted at 11:30 am on Nov 18th, 2005 by dave mabe

This is pretty cool, but the same thing could be done with the game port, and RMX

http://www.darkain.com/rmx/

In therory, you could have up to 4 buttons, plus 4 analog inputs, plus also use any other gamepad to further expand your controls

Posted at 11:38 am on Nov 18th, 2005 by B10hazard

Very awesome. I just finished making a dedicated music playing computer, and I was wondering if there was an easier way to use buttons to controll it other than the keyboard. It only took me about an hour to make this, I installed it into an empty bay on the front of the case using the blank bezel. Very cool and streamlined. :D

Posted at 2:13 pm on Nov 18th, 2005 by Banzai

anyone have made tune table?

Posted at 2:47 pm on Nov 18th, 2005 by adhit

I’ve been using this same plug in for three years now at work. Threw together a 4 button controller out of parts I found in the computer scrap pile. Works great to contol the tunes even when the company mandated screensaver has popped up and you need to stop the music before answering the phone.

Posted at 2:51 pm on Nov 18th, 2005 by Dave

winamp? people still use windows?

this doesn’t even come close to the laser/xmms combo.

Posted at 4:39 pm on Nov 18th, 2005 by n3ldan

Anyone know of a way to use this in linux?

Posted at 7:43 pm on Nov 18th, 2005 by acidrain

You can also make a USB version of this with a PIC fairly easily. We enumerated ours as a game controller, but had to write host software to catch the game controller presses and convert them into winamp commands. That being said, the host software could turn them into any windows key presses so it had a lot more versatility. If you want source code (both assembly and python) you can check out our documentation here: http://students.olin.edu/2007/smcbride/bigknob/?page=home

Also, with some tweaking, the USB version should work in linux as well – i think there’s a usb library in C that’s open source for linux that you could use to capture keypresses, but I haven’t tried for myself.

Posted at 11:45 pm on Nov 18th, 2005 by Brian Shih

yeah ive been using this for ages, its great, i have one at my comptuer, on at my bed, one at my door and one in my shed. its really convinient

Posted at 5:20 am on Nov 19th, 2005 by matt syme

Hmm..about that winlirc; do you have to build their transmitter, or can the software easily be “trained” to any IR emitter?

Posted at 5:32 am on Nov 19th, 2005 by rexdart

well, i just made one of these from cat5, a connector salvaged from an old serial mouse adapter, and some microbuttons from a dead vcr, once i got it going, i realized there is a schematic for a 15 button version in the help tab of the config program. still very simple and uses diodes to make a matrix

Posted at 12:16 pm on Nov 19th, 2005 by carpespasm

#10, I know that lirc can ‘learn’ transmitters so I’d assume that winlirc can.
Anyone know of similar tutorials for parallel port, not serial? I only have one serial connector, and it’s part of a mouse (that I still use).

Posted at 9:04 pm on Nov 19th, 2005 by Dax

I just control winamp with my samsung i730 and a plug in called browse amp http://www.browseamp.com that allows you to control winamp by web browsers. The chick totally did you being able to control the music from your phone not to mention you can really freak out your roomates when you aren’t home by cranking up the tunes remotely.

Posted at 6:05 pm on Nov 20th, 2005 by Brett

It looks OK, but you can’t beat the one i made a while ago for styling!

http://www.andybateman.co.uk/storage/mp3remote.jpg

Posted at 6:50 am on Nov 22nd, 2005 by Andy B

Pretty cool, I’ve just done it and housed in a nice case with metal finish. Very simple, but it works! http://img454.imageshack.us/my.php?image=251120050030yn.jpg

Posted at 10:53 pm on Nov 25th, 2005 by dusch

dusch, well done man!!!

Posted at 1:18 am on Nov 26th, 2005 by pasteler0

Re: This is pretty cool, but the same thing could be done with the game port, and RMX

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?postid=1404330#1404330

RM-X has supported this same 4-button interface for over a year now. I like hack-a-day posting things like this, however, its a little sad to see something that was done well over a year ago, and done multiple times before.

i would much rather see new, unique, and innovative things posted here (such as a telnet interface into a Lua session for direct command execution which can be used to remotely administrate a computer over the internet to que up .torrent files for download on a headless server)

Posted at 5:54 am on Dec 1st, 2005 by Darkain Dragoon

Have anyone seen anything like this, but as a stand-alone application to control the PC? such as running executable files, opening shortcuts to websites, etc
Any Open Source projects around? =D
Or any ideas how this can be easily implemented?
Tnx

Posted at 3:22 am on Dec 12th, 2005 by Duarte

i am making a 15 button one i got all the parts from http://www.maplin.co.uk and i built it into a small metal tin, any idias how to use the buttons like arrow keys or hotkeys?

matthewbratt1879@aol.com

matthew.

Posted at 3:05 pm on Jul 5th, 2006 by Matthewbratt1879

I have some question about using midi/gameport version. I have downloaded software called RMX for controlling winamp using joystick …… I calibrated it and wanted to use for volume control…… I have added this a functoin to axis Y, but it doesn´t work much good…… I wanted the higher volume….. so i moved with joystick up…….ewerything works, volume had gone up…….but then I moved with joystick down…..but volume didn´t go down but still up…… Isn´t this any bug in program ??

Posted at 11:32 am on Oct 30th, 2008 by kovo1533