Winamp playlist / shortcut to play all files in a folder

Playlist

Creating a Winamp playlist to play all files in a particular folder.

• Open notepad.
• Type full path of your folder. i.e. D:\Music
• Save file with extension .m3u. i.e. mymusic.m3u

Intelliremote doesn’t work with MCE Keyboard

Issue

Logitech Harmony 900 remote controller configured to work as MCE Keyboard. All button presses works within Windows, however, Intelliremote does not detect any presses and Intelliremote status icon does not blink on a key press.

Solution

• Go to Windows services (services.msc)
• Stop and Disable service called Intelliservice.
• Restart Intelliremote

Computer goes back to sleep after waking up (Intelliremote)

Issue

HTPC with Melloware Intelliremote software. After pressing a power button on a remote control, computer wakes up and after a few seconds goes back into a sleep mode.

Solution

Resolved by using sleep.exe instead of default sleep command. Simply map your remote's power button via Intelliremote to sleep.exe executable.

More info about sleep.exe can be found here.

Plex Media Center on-screen keyboard not working

Plex Media Center has 10 foot interface and can be fully controlled with a remote. However, with some setups, on-screen virtual keyboard may not respond to arrow key presses on a remote making it impossible to enter any text without a keyboard.