Build a listening post

[adamyoung]

You know in HMV etc you have a post where you have a headset that you can put on and press a number and it plays a track, how could this be done using a PC?

 

All it would need to do is play a track named 1, 2, 3 etc when the corresponding button is pressed on the keyboard. The box could be hidden somewhere with just headphones and a USB numeric keypad on display?

 

Ideas anyone?

 

Thanks!

[indie]

Off the top of my head, could you use flowol for something like that?

[StuartC]

VB?

VC?

 

Media Center for the all out overkill approach?

[adamyoung]

I was thinking if there was little vb app anyone knew about, i think it'd a relatively easy app to write for someone who knows vb (not me!)

[pete]

IIRC there's something like this available for Winamp + Matrix Orbital LCD screens (ones w/ buttons). I think you can configure it for keyboard keys as well, but can't be sure.

 

Have a look in the bit-tech.net forums, I'm sure someone else has built something like this.

 

edit: a quick google displays many gubbins for controlling winamp in the manner you require.

[alan-d]

PowerPoint in Kiosk mode

 

 

 

*runs away*

[webman]

Internet Explorer in kiosk mode showing a page that has clickable buttons that are linked to a Windows Media Player object to play specified files.

[Sylv3r]

PowerPoint in Kiosk mode

 

 

 

*runs away*

[marq=down]

 

Thats what I was thinking, it would do exactly what your after for very little fuss.