By Thilak ⋅ May 17, 2006

Control Windows Media Player 11 from Command Line

Digital Inspiration today posted an intresting article about controlling Windows Media Player 11 from Command Lines:

“If you are like doing things via the keyboard, WMP 11 offers a good support for command line operators. Here are some of them:

wmplayer /Device:{DVD|AudioCD} – Start a DVD or an Music CD directly from the command line.

If you plan to start a DVD movie with WMP in full screen, just add a /fullscreen switch to the above command, it starts the player in a full screen mode.

wmplayer /Playlist PlaylistName Open the Player and play the specified playlist.

wmplayer “path\filename”?WMPSkin=skin_name – starts the player in skin mode and plays the file mentioned in the argument. Specify the full qualified path of the media file.”

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Comments for “Control Windows Media Player 11 from Command Line”

  • Vim
    Just go to your playlist, highlight all the songs in the playlist using "ctrl" so bsaically everything in that playlist is highlighted then click on the little arrow thingy that looks like a circle which is located beside the 2 double arrows or click on "Tools" then click "repeat" so its on. Once you have clicked the repeat button with all the songs in the play list highlighted, it should repeat the entire play list endlessly. Hope that helped.
  • scott
    Worked for me... Thanks.
  • tony
    Looking for a bit more help with command line switches for Media Player. I'm starting MP with a script that calls a .wpl playlist - this all works fine. My problem is that I want the playlist to repeat endlessly (Music on hold...)and I can't find a switch to make this happen.

    The 'Repeat' option in the playlist does not get saved and I can't find ay reference to a command line switch that will "..play this list and repeat it". Anyone have any ideas?
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