itunes

What do you mean by anything? Remote control?

well, you cant skin itunes.

but you could in theory skin a program that's just a gui front end to itunes and simple sends whatever clicks and commands it receives over to IT to play

I hacked together a php script when i was at uni that had a basic html form with buttons to play, pause, prev, next, volume etc... i used my mobile to access it over wap and control itunes from around our house (well usually just from my bed:)... i had an applescript running on my mac that just grabbed an XML value every few seconds (from the PHP script) which corresponded to the command i'd pressed on the form.

It all worked quite smoothly when it was running, just had a delay of a few seconds. But yeah, it's possible to put an HTML interface on it, would work well if it was all local.

yeah, there's widgets like this one based on that, but i can't seem to find any standalone skinnable apps for it. know of any?

don't know much about itunes, but i found these. they may or may not be what you're looking for, and i dont know if you can edit them
http://guistyles.com/index.php?tag=itunes-skin

I'm sure its possible...but a lot of mac users (myself included) prefer it in widget form.

You can skin iTunes, actually. It can either be part of a guiKit, or in Windows you can use that app that Localhost created.

actually what i'm doing now is put the widgets into debug mode and dropped a widget that just has an album cover of the current CD on the desktop

since widgets are pretty easy to hack by editing source (they're just dhtml) this might be a good placeholder-hack