I am using MM to 'push' music out to my receiver. And yes, I am using Windows 8.

Thanks for your help.  If/when I figure out what causes the error pop-up box after every track, I'll let you know.

Good information.  I use MM which plays music out to my receiver via UPnP/DLNA.  After every track is played, I get an MM error pop-up box that says "The receiver player is turned off or inaccessible".  I click the 'ok' button and it will then play the next track.  Have you ever had that error before? Makes MM pretty worthless if I have to click the 'ok' button after every track in order for it to play.  I posted this in MM forum, but no answers. Thought you might know since you use it also.

This is strange...using VC I can open MediaMonkey. When I tell it to play an artist, VC recognizes the command, but MM does nothing.  Has anyone had this happen before?
I can manually play a track in MM, but can't play a track using VC.

*** Update ***
I opened both MM and VC as 'administrator' and now it is working.

Thanks for giving me a direction to go in.  I was drawing a blank with how to do something like this.

Well, the server is upstairs and the receiver is downstairs...but they are networked (meaning, I can access the receiver from the pc).  Wasn't sure how to do it since the pc and receiver are not close to each other.

I have a pc running windows 8 for my server which has voxcommando installed.  Is it possible to have the voice output from vox to be heard through my networked Denon AVR's speakers?