I'm trying to control windows media player in c#. That means, I want to be able to programmically play songs. To reiterate, I'm talking about the full version of WMP, not the component you can embed into a windows form. I can launch the WMP process just fine, the problem comes in actually controlling it as I can't think of any keypresses I can send to the player that would tell it to select a song and play music. I can do this in iTunes just fine by sending a spacebar key-press to the process, but not so in Windows Media Player. Does anyone have any ideas as per how I can control widows media player programmically in C#? Is there a special command I can send to the process to complete this task?
Here is a link do how to interact with WMP using p/invoke...
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I'm developing a Music player app for UWP which can play music in background.
Note that I'm using old 2 layer music app pattern one for foreground and one for background music.
In the app i want to handle the Keyboard music controls like Play, Pause, Next and Previous. can anyone help me out with proper way of implementing the keyboard music controls?
The keyboard shortcuts such as Play, Pauseand so on you mean here are actually the System Media Transport Controls(SMTC).
can anyone help me out with proper way of implementing the keyboard music controls?
Actually, starting with Windows 10, version 1607, UWP apps that use the MediaPlayer class to play media are automatically integrated with the SMTC by default. Simply instantiate a new instance of MediaPlayer and assign a MediaSource, MediaPlaybackItem, or MediaPlaybackList to the player's Source property and the user will see your app name in the SMTC and can play, pause, and move through your playback lists by using the SMTC controls.
This is the recommended way of interacting with the SMTC for most scenarios.Details please reference Integrate with the System Media Transport Controls. There are a few scenarios where you may need to implement manual control of the SMTC. For this please reference Manual control of the System Media Transport Controls.
but i need it to work even in background.
According to the remark section of SystemMediaTransportControls class:
The system transport control allows a user to control a music application that is in the background as well as get and set the current information on which track is playing.
So that SMTC should also work for music in background.
For a sample please reference the official sample.
I would need to execute a function that plays a video in the default media player(Phone or Tab) from Universal Apps that uses Xaml and C#.
I don't want to embed the player .Actually my need is to open a new window with the default player and tell it to play the selected file.
All samples that I've saw in Google are to create an embedded player or send to a device Only.
Could you please give some suggestion for this issue. Thanks in Advance.
I'm developing WP application, part of which is to play/stream audio files.
I didn't wanted to create my own page to display info of current playing track, so I decided to use Built-in Music's player, using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Media.MediaPlayer class I created playlists and queued playback. It all works fine, but now I need to navigate to MusicPlayer, when user taps on track in my app, and that's the part I've no idea what to do.
I've tried to navigate to MusicPlayer using Microsoft.Phone.Tasks.MediaPlayerLauncher, but it's not an option, because it...
Needs to receive media location in IsolatedStorage, which means
streaming is impossible
Gets one media at a time, so no playlists
I guess I can't navigate without changing track(or starting over)
Is there any way to navigate to Built-in Music Player's Now Playing page, without interrupting playback?
I think these questions might be helpful/related to what you're looking for:
Detecting and launching an external application from within a Windows Phone 7.1/7.5 application
Launching other applications in Windows phone 7 Programatically
In short, it doesn't seem like third-party apps have permission to access other apps on the phone, probably for security reasons.
I want to implement a function that plays a video in the default media player from a windows store apps that uses Xaml and C#.
I don't want to embed the player I want to open a new window with the default player and tell it to play the selected file.
All the samples that I've found are to create an embedded player or send to a device.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks...
I need to synchronize Windows Media Player with my application. I want to show the current song that WMP is playing in a ListBox in real time, with updates when WMP changes songs. How can I implement this?
A bit of sniffing around in Google gave me this: http://brandon.fuller.name/archives/hacks/nowplaying/wmp/, it looks like you need to write a plugin for WMP that exposes the information to your application. Depending on what you need/cost, the Plugin on that page might do the job!
Poll HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\RecentFileList\File perhaps.
We've controlled Windows Media Player through the Windows Media library (wmp.dll) and .NET Remoting, using a singleton service.
Look here:
How to interact with Windows Media Player in C#