Questions tagged [windows-media-player]

Windows Media Player (abbreviated WMP) is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. Editions of Windows Media Player were also released for Mac OS, Mac OS X and Solaris but development of these has since been discontinued.

Windows Media Player (abbreviated WMP) is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft Corporation.

It is used for playing audio & video on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices.

Editions of Windows Media Player were also released for Mac OS, Mac OS X and Solaris but development of these has since been discontinued.

Windows Media Player Wiki

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get currently playing song name from media player through java programming

Is there any way through which i can get the name of the song being played in my window media player using java programming.
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C# Windows Media Player how to Delete a Playist (WMPLib.IWMPPlaylist)

I'm trying to delete a WMPLib.IWMPPlaylist in C# I've already tried it with these methods WMP.playlistCollection.remove(playlist); WMP.playlistCollection.setDeleted(playlist, true); as well as this code from a similar question: IWMPPlaylistArray…
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Getting windows media player currently playing song

Is there a way I can get currently plaaying song from Windows Media Player by C# with .NET? Any API that will work with all Windows Media Player versions?
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Get index of current playing/paused song in playlist [Windows Media Player Library]

Here is my media player playlist code setup, working with the windows media player library. Right now what I'm doing is creating the media player and giving it a playlist. WindowsMediaPlayer wmPlayer = new…
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Removing the broadcasting icon when player is in fullscreen on MediaElement

I am using the default MediaElement with AreTransportControlsEnabled="True" and I am trying to remove the CastButton element when the app is in full screen. I have already created a copy of MediaTransportControls and commented out the CastButton but…
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How do I make code wait for the AVI Movie to finish playing before hiding media player ? Visual Basic 6

Here is a code snippet I cannot get to work. What I am trying to do is get windows media player to play an avi and when it is finished playing, I then want windows media player to turn "invisible" until the next time it needs to play an AVI. If…
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Enqueuing songs in windows mediaplayer

Anyone successfully managed to queue a song to the current playlist in windows mediaplayer (running instance) (Windows 7/Vista). I've researched everything from different commandline arguments, different process.start verbs to what the enqueue…
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BackgroundMediaPlayer throwing RPC server unavailable exception on Windows Phone 10

When I use my Windows Phone 8.1 app in Windows Phone 10, the BackgroundMediaPlayer is throwing The RPC server is unavailable exception on this piece of code: var mediaPlayer = BackgroundMediaPlayer.Current; But it works fine on Windows Phone 8.1.…
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How Play audios By a axWindowsMediaPlayer in c#?

I have some words in an array and want to play some related files that are on a website's host.(The name of those files are as same as the string words in the array). I want to use a axWindowsMediaPlayer to play each audio. But when I use it in a…
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Windows media player control embedded into HTML - change of control's size after starting playback

I use the following html to show media player on the web-page rendered in IE 8: After starting playback the size of the control stays…
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Cannot open mp4's made from MediaCapture in C# UWP app

I am writing a UWP app in C# that uses the camera to take a video. My test app is simple: start recording, wait five seconds, then stop recording. It will save the recording as an mp4. However, after I ran this app, I was not able to play the mp4…
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Preview JPG for a windows media player

I'd like to have a JPG preview for my simple .wmv player. Any ideas? Here it is...
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Embedded Windows Media Player loaded in QtWebKit: set volume does not work

when loading this html (html is also here) in the Qt 4.6 Demo Browser, pressing "Set Volume = 80" fails without raising an exception. Notes: The same html works fine in Chrome and Firefox. Happens on Windows, but works fine on Mac. Fails also with…
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Distributing windows media player 11 with .net based application

I am developing a WPF based application using .NET 3.5 SP1, which required windows media player 11 to be installed on end user machine. For pain free installation I want that the setup should handle everything. Is there any redistributable package…
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Track information of current song in Universal App

I'm trying to get the track info (song, album, artist name) of the currently played media in an Windows Universal App. The information can be updated by using the SystemMediaTransportControls. Is it possible to read the information of a song played…
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