13. Thermaltake Multi-Median

Thermaltake's version of the driver CD

As mentioned earlier in this article, both the Soundgraph and Thermaltake products offer a software package called Multi-Median that can act as a stand-in or replacement for MCE 2005. You can navigate around its menus, which correspond to button markings on the remote control, and you can make your way around the program nicely with that device in hand. After identifying the contents of your hard disks or specifying individual items, all available multimedia files can be launched using the Start or OK buttons on the remote.

Before the software scans local drives, no files are listed

List of music files discovered

The thumbnail on the right identifies the current video

MP3 directory listings: complete filenames identify music files