Automating windows media player on win7

Wed Jun 4 15:23:05 EDT 2014

On 2014年06月03日 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()