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<blockquote data-quote="MJGraf" data-source="post: 202184" data-attributes="member: 17886">Big_Kev: This is really a great piece of software!Just want to add my 2c to the remote-functionality:I disagree with making the &quot;remote-server&quot; a separate software not running as a plugin. Of course, it is easier to bring in line with new versions of MP. However, what I'd like to do with it is having my PDA as a &quot;luxury-remote&quot; for MP.There have been many attemps on this forum to achieve this. The problem for many of them was that they didn't have a bi-directional connection with the MP-box. I think the reason therefore was that MP doesn't have a unified remote-interface (Maybe MP-II will help there...). Hence, everybody who tried to make a remote-control plugin created his own interface, which resulted in having many of them (one for your web-server, one for the PDA-remote-control, one for MCE-remotes, etc.)Now that you have apparently managed to implement a bi-directional interface, I think it would be a great idea of using this for the web-remote as well. As to my PDA-remote, one could develop a html-page perfectly fitting a 240x320 screen when all the controls of mobile-ie are disabled.I think it is much easier to get album-art, etc. to the webclient, when the remoting-server is made as a plugin for MP.Keep up the great work!Michael</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MJGraf, post: 202184, member: 17886"] Big_Kev: This is really a great piece of software! Just want to add my 2c to the remote-functionality: I disagree with making the "remote-server" a separate software not running as a plugin. Of course, it is easier to bring in line with new versions of MP. However, what I'd like to do with it is having my PDA as a "luxury-remote" for MP. There have been many attemps on this forum to achieve this. The problem for many of them was that they didn't have a bi-directional connection with the MP-box. I think the reason therefore was that MP doesn't have a unified remote-interface (Maybe MP-II will help there...). Hence, everybody who tried to make a remote-control plugin created his own interface, which resulted in having many of them (one for your web-server, one for the PDA-remote-control, one for MCE-remotes, etc.) Now that you have apparently managed to implement a bi-directional interface, I think it would be a great idea of using this for the web-remote as well. As to my PDA-remote, one could develop a html-page perfectly fitting a 240x320 screen when all the controls of mobile-ie are disabled. I think it is much easier to get album-art, etc. to the webclient, when the remoting-server is made as a plugin for MP. Keep up the great work! Michael [/QUOTE]

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