Command Line Scriptable Windows Media Player Component

Player Command Line Options

• -alive returns 'Alive' if the player is currently running, otherwise returns 'Dead'
• -hideconsole hides the console window spawned by the process
• -noautoplay suppresses the auto play
• -autoclose closes the player automatically when the playback is stopped
• -playlist [file] loads the playlist specified by [file]
• -files [file1] [file2] [...] starts the player with the items listed added to the current playlist. All arguments after -files are treated as filenames.

Player Return Codes

• -1 General Error
• 0 Ok

Control Command Line Options

• -status gets the current play state.
• -play starts playback.
• -pause pauses playback.
• -stop stops playback. If the player was started with -autoclose the player will close.
• -next plays the next item in the playlist.
• -prev plays the previous item in the playlist.
• -mute mutes the player.
• -volume [value | +[+...] | -[-...]] sets the volume to the specified value, each + increases the current volume by 5%, each - reduces the volume by 5%.
• -seek [value | +[+...] | -[-...]] seeks the player by value seconds (can be negative), each + seeks 10 seconds, each - seeks back 10 seconds.
• -close closes the player.

Examples:

• Start the player from a batch file, playing playlist.m3u, and close when complete

  start scriptablewmpplayer.exe -hideconsole -autoclose -playlist playlist.m3u

• Set the player volume to 30%

  scriptablewmpplayer.exe -volume 30