Thanks a lot mate. You just made my day. I have looked around the net but cannot find the controls available.
I would like to be able to: - get current playing track - get wmplayer state (playing/paused/stopped) - get the selected sound device Thanks a lot Br Deo -----Original Message----- From: Python-list [mailto:python-list-bounces+demu=senncom....@python.org] On Behalf Of MRAB Sent: 4. juni 2014 21:23 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Automating windows media player on win7 On 2014-06-03 09:10, Deogratius Musiige wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have been fighting with automating wmplayer but with no success. > > It looks to me that using the .OCX would be the best option. I found > the code below on the net but I cannot get it to work. > > I can see from device manager that a driver is started by I get no > audio out. > > What am I doing wrong guys? > > # this program will play MP3, WMA, MID, WAV files via the > WindowsMediaPlayer from win32com.client import Dispatch > > mp = Dispatch("WMPlayer.OCX") > tune = mp.newMedia("./plays.wav") > mp.currentPlaylist.appendItem(tune) > mp.controls.play() > raw_input("Press Enter to stop playing") > mp.controls.stop() > I've found that adding PlayItem and sleep seems to work: #! python2.7 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from win32com.client import Dispatch from time import sleep mp = Dispatch("WMPlayer.OCX") tune = mp.NewMedia(r"./plays.wav") mp.CurrentPlaylist.AppendItem(tune) mp.Controls.Play() sleep(1) mp.Controls.PlayItem(tune) raw_input("Press Enter to stop playing") mp.Controls.Stop() -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
