Stormbringer

Hey guys. The band i'm playing in are about to change our previous MP3 backing track solution to a PC. The drummer is the one starting, stopping and skipping tracks. The computer will be rack mounted, and i'm currently looking into a solution to build a wired remote that display the song title, and allows to move to next/previous in the play list, and start + stop. So it's not really a full featured Controller in that sense. Now, as the only one in the band with some tech abilities and electronic + programming skills i got the task to solve this issue. And i figured MIDI is a great solution to this (been looking alot at the midibox LC a couple of years back, but havent built one). What i do have built earlier is a small pic18f2550-based USB to Gameport Midi interface for my old creative blasterkeys keyboard which worked out fine. Anyone seen a project for controlling a media player software through MIDI? I do have a bunch of PIC MCU's avaliable, and i know my way around electronics and programming quite well, but it would save me quite some time if there's already someone out there that have done this. Any tips? :)