Well my iPod's Jailbroken and I use an app/mod called Music Controls. It allows any of the stock iPod-based music controls(Double click home button, volume buttons, headset controls and most importantly, Dock/remote controls) to control many of the music apps out there, INCLUDING iTunes remote.
I very much like the idea of the little white Apple remote but I use a PC, so I figure if I get the dock, I can open up iTunes remote on my iPod, set it on the dock then just use the apple remote to control iTunes on my PC. and this works well for when I'm *at* the computer and if I want to change a playlist I can just open up iTunes itself and deal with it.
But when I'm on my bed(Small room, bed's used as a workspace) I don't have any easy access to my keyboard/iTunes and the dock/iPod's all the way in the other corner of the room. So if I need to change a song beyond the limits of Next/Previous, I'm fucked.
So what I want to do is to be able to unplug the dock connector from the dock and place it on my bedside end of my desk. That way I can still use the tactile controls of the remote, but when need-be I can take the iPod off the dock and set a specific song/playlist myself. But it'd be stupid hard to get a dock cable on this end of the desk, so I want to just unplug it, hang the cable on my 2x4 cable organizer, and move the dock/iPod to the end.
The distance between the usual location of the dock and me when I'm in bed is about 3-4 feet. Not that far but it's a bitch of an angle when you're in bed.
Essentially I'm looking at a $50+tax IR Receiver for the iPod. But I also think the dock would look really good on my desk where I want to put it, and it'll act as a "Picture frame" for the art for the song I'm listening to.
Last edited by TheDonkey (2010-04-21 20:28:26)