I got my pronto today, a referb 1000 which turned out to really be a 2000. First off, thanks to everyone here for all their info, both on the board and anyone who can possibly help me out.

What I want to do is pretty straightforward. I want a list of buttons on my pronto that contain album titles. When I click on the album title I want winamp to play that album.

Now, using the IR interface from my Leadtek tv2000xp tv tuner card I was able to get a plugin for girder which is working great. I also got the plugin for winamp3.

The thing is this... I have already succesfully done it, but I'm not happy with how.

I have loaded 5 playlists into winamp. Say for example I want to play the FOURTH playlist (album). my macro is literally "Previous Playlist(PP),PP,PP,PP,Next Playlist(NP),NP,NP,Play Playlist"

As you can see, no matter what is selected in the playlist, I move the cursor all the way to the begining, then just move forward one by one until the correct album is selected then hit play. And, believe it or not, this works really well every time without a hitch.

But, I'm sure you can see that the way I did this is bad for many reasons. If my winamp playlist gets screwed up, it will be out if sync with the remote. Also, the amout of buttons to set these things up is VERY annoying.

Has anyone thought of a way that is perhaps a little better than this one? With girder you can emulate keystrokes on the keyboard, maybe that might be a better way to go?

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, sorry for such a wordy post.

Another way would be to assign a DOS command to your macro. If you issue the command C:\{your Winamp directory}\winamp {playlist name including .m3u extension}, Winamp will start, load up your playlist and start playing the first track. I have tested this with Winamp 2.81 but version 3 should behave similarly.

Wow... I never even considered the fact that a simple .bat file could execute the m3u via the macro... Only one problem. The remote has about 26 buttons and I'm not so sure girder is able to wait for 2 button presses per execution. (or better yet 3) 001 activating album 1, 057 activating album 57 ect... Any ideas on that?

I found a solution that should work great! my remote has 41 buttons, so I didn't want to press a button to bring up an album, I wanted more than 41. I found this great script at the girder site (which I modified to actually work) that lets you assign something like shift keys. Via groups, you can press a button and disable all but one group making it so you can program a button multiple times. If anyone else is trying to do something similar and they want the script, let me know. Thanks!