Good idea, alot of them these days do have switches on the front. My
only reservation with this would be what price they would be asking for
such a unit, but then again it wasn't long ago that a double speed cdrom
cost $400, now you can pickem up at $30 second hand.
Stuart



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> The design engineer in me would say "Do these boxes have switches on the
> front which can be used to start/stop/skip?".  I know some, if not most,
> CD-ROM drives do.
>
> The second question would be "Do you think interfacing to these switches
> might possibly be a very trivial task?".  Cos I do .... :-)
>
> Just an idea, assuming you don't need track and location feedback, just the
> simple control mentioned...
>
> Nigel
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