Advice/Info/Help with Retrieving Windows Media Player playlists programmaticallyin C#

Silverton Mike

I need to retrieve Windows Media Player playlists programmatically via
C# from a desktop machine. Does WMP keep track of used/created playlists
via registry entries or a saved file on the hard disk? I know WMP
likes to save its playlists in directories such as:

H:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Music\My Playlists

but any .wpl files saved outside such a scheme wont be found if only
looking here.

I did find this directory:

H:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Media
Player

but it only had a dummy .wpl file of sorts:

<?wpl version="1.0"?>
<smil>
<head>
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Windows Media Player
-- 9.0.0.2991"/>
</head>
</smil>
Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. I'll continue to
thumb through the MSDN sites and google hits to see what shows up on
this topic.

Michael Hughes - Silverton, Oregon

Nov 16 '05 #1

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I can't help you directly, but I looked into this before and very quickly it
seemed like I needed to download the Windows Media SDK, anything beyond
loading a WMP activex control in your application, was nowhere to be found..
good luck..

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/librar...layer10sdk.asp

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I need to retrieve Windows Media Player playlists programmatically via C#
from a desktop machine. Does WMP keep track of used/created playlists via
registry entries or a saved file on the hard disk? I know WMP likes to save
its playlists in directories such as:

H:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Music\My Playlists

but any .wpl files saved outside such a scheme wont be found if only
looking here.

I did find this directory:

H:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Media
Player

but it only had a dummy .wpl file of sorts:

<?wpl version="1.0"?>
<smil>
<head>
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Windows Media Player --
9.0.0.2991"/>
</head>
</smil>
Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. I'll continue to
thumb through the MSDN sites and google hits to see what shows up on this
topic.

Michael Hughes - Silverton, Oregon

Nov 16 '05 #2

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