--- In [email protected], "ligoten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Which version of WMP are you using?  I wonder if there's a COM object
that wraps that version...

> Recently, with the help of The CodeProject and Spy++, I've been able to 
> create a PowerPro commandlist that can send play/pause, next, last, and 
> stop commands to Windows Media Player even when it is remoted or 
> minimized to the toolbar. During the course of my tracing WMP with 
> Spy++, I was unable to find any messages I could use to make PowerPro 
> retrieve the artist, title and album metadata for the currently playing 
> track (MP3 or WMA). Does anyone know whether this is possible (the help 
> documentation for PowerPro indicates that such a thing could be done 
> with Winamp), and if so, how I could go about it? I've never tried to 
> use the return value from SendMessage, so I'm looking for a fairly 
> detailed explanation. Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> P.S. I know programs like Samurize can retrieve the current track info, 
> but I'm already running PowerPro, so the marginal process time and 
> memory usage increase of using PowerPro would be less than adding 
> another background program.
>


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