Your description of using Open Special etc seems to be your way of creating the list of songs that you can then point Jukebox to. I simply use Windows file manager/explorer to do the same thing. I then select the directory using "Change Directory" in Jukebox. Using either method, once Jukebox is running there really needs to be a way to stop and restart the sequence at any point in the list of songs. Currently you have to re-start at the beginning which is a disaster during a performance. Perhaps it has never happened to you. It's ironic that the RealBand Jukebox which is a DAW, not a performance tool, has a way round this problem.

I used my keyboard to start songs with a midi signal long before I added a foot pedal but it's convenient to have both.

Tony