Controlling Windows Media Player from Python

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  • Jeffrey Barish
    #1

    Controlling Windows Media Player from Python

    Is there a way to interact with Windows Media Player from Python? I would
    like to be able to do things like tell WMP to play a given sound file or to
    ask WMP for metadata about a sound file.
    --
    Jeffrey Barish

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    • Avizoa@gmail.com
      #2
      Re: Controlling Windows Media Player from Python


      Jeffrey Barish wrote:
      Is there a way to interact with Windows Media Player from Python? I would
      like to be able to do things like tell WMP to play a given sound file or to
      ask WMP for metadata about a sound file.
      --
      Jeffrey Barish


      The fact of the matter is that python doesn't need to ask WMP for the
      metadata. Python can get the metadata from the file itself and then
      tell the computer to play the file.

      If you're looking to do something more complicated, try PyMedia or even
      download wxPython and take a look at the examples. There's an embedded
      WMP example.



      By the way, someone has most likely made a module specifically for
      reading the metadata from many types of music files, but I don't have
      time to look. Maybe someone else can point you in the right direction.
      For telling WMP to play the file you want one of the os.exec variants.

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        • Lawrence Oluyede
          #3
          Re: Controlling Windows Media Player from Python

          Jeffrey Barish <jeff_barish@ea rthlink.netwrot e:
          Is there a way to interact with Windows Media Player from Python? I would
          like to be able to do things like tell WMP to play a given sound file or to
          ask WMP for metadata about a sound file.
          Take a look at pywinauto, I attended the today talk at EP2006 and seemed
          really cool. http://pywinauto.pbwiki.com

          --
          Lawrence - http://www.oluyede.org/blog
          "Nothing is more dangerous than an idea
          if it's the only one you have" - E. A. Chartier

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            • Roger Upole
              #4
              Re: Controlling Windows Media Player from Python

              "Jeffrey Barish" <jeff_barish@ea rthlink.netwrot e in message news:mailman.77 29.1151941150.2 7775.python-list@python.org ...
              Is there a way to interact with Windows Media Player from Python? I would
              like to be able to do things like tell WMP to play a given sound file or to
              ask WMP for metadata about a sound file.
              --
              Jeffrey Barish
              WMP can be automated using COM:

              import win32com.client

              w=win32com.clie nt.gencache.Ens ureDispatch('WM Player.OCX',0)
              pl=w.playlistCo llection.getByN ame('All Music')[0]
              s=pl[0]
              print s.name, s.duration
              w.currentMedia= s

              Roger


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                • Alex Biddle
                  #5
                  Re: Controlling Windows Media Player from Python

                  >
                  Take a look at pywinauto, I attended the today talk at EP2006 and seemed
                  really cool. http://pywinauto.pbwiki.com
                  >

                  Cool, that looks really interesting.

                  ....theres a problem I could solve with that....

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