Abstract: A multimedia access system has a remote unit coupled to a host computer system, which is used to control and access media files located on the host computer system. The remote unit comprises a plurality of controls, e.g. mouse, cursor, multimedia controls and a numerical keypad. The keypad is used to input code to be coupled to a linguistic input method editor. The code ranges from code for a full descriptive phrase of a media file, a code for a partial phrase to code for initials of the words of the phrase. The linguistic input method analyzer interprets the code and provides a search phrase to find a media file on the host computer to be played. The multimedia system operates with various languages comprising English, Spanish and the Asia languages.