RE: Automating windows media player on win7
Hi mate, The fix you provided works perfect. However, if I put it in a class and import, make instance and execute in another file, the audio is not played. What am I missing? This is what I do: FileA.py class WMPlayer(): ''' @ ''' #static var #first instance is a primary , following are secondary. #you can have one primary and as many secondary as you like def __init__(self): ''' init all attributes ''' #self.mp = Dispatch(WMPlayer.OCX) #pass def play_song(self): mp = Dispatch(WMPlayer.OCX) tune = mp.newMedia(r./SleepAway.mp3) mp.currentPlaylist.appendItem(tune) mp.controls.play() sleep(1) mp.controls.playItem(tune) raw_input(Press Enter to stop playing) #sleep(5) mp.controls.stop() FileB.py from wmp.WMPlayer import * class sTest(unittest.TestCase): def test_wmplayer(self): self.wmp = WMPlayer() self.wmp.play_song() Best regards / Med venlig hilsen Deogratius Musiige Sennheiser Communications A/S Direct +45 5618 0320 -Original Message- From: Python-list [mailto:python-list-bounces+demu=senncom@python.org] On Behalf Of Deogratius Musiige Sent: 6. juni 2014 15:39 To: MRAB; python-list@python.org Subject: RE: Automating windows media player on win7 Thanks a lot mate. You just made my day. I have looked around the net but cannot find the controls available. I would like to be able to: - get current playing track - get wmplayer state (playing/paused/stopped) - get the selected sound device Thanks a lot Br Deo -Original Message- From: Python-list [mailto:python-list-bounces+demu=senncom@python.org] On Behalf Of MRAB Sent: 4. juni 2014 21:23 To: python-list@python.orgmailto:python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Automating windows media player on win7 On 2014-06-03 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() -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Automating windows media player on win7
On 2014-07-23 10:20, Deogratius Musiige wrote: Hi mate, The fix you provided works perfect. However, if I put it in a class and import, make instance and execute in another file, the audio is not played. What am I missing? This is what I do: I'm assuming that you're not actually calling the files FileA.py and FileB.py. *FileA.py* You need these imports: from win32com.client import Dispatch from time import sleep classWMPlayer(): ''' @ ''' #static var #first instance is a primary , following are secondary. #you can have one primary and as many secondary as you like def__init__(self): ''' init all attributes ''' #self.mp = Dispatch(WMPlayer.OCX) #pass defplay_song(self): mp = Dispatch(WMPlayer.OCX) tune = mp.newMedia(r./SleepAway.mp3) mp.currentPlaylist.appendItem(tune) mp.controls.play() sleep(1) mp.controls.playItem(tune) raw_input(Press Enter to stop playing) #sleep(5) mp.controls.stop() ** *FileB.py* You need this import: import unittest ** fromwmp.WMPlayer import* classsTest(unittest.TestCase): deftest_wmplayer(self): self.wmp = WMPlayer() self.wmp.play_song() You also need to run the test: if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.main() -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
RE: Automating windows media player on win7
Hi, I have the mentioned imports. And for the matter of fact I can play the audio. The problem is when I make a class with the wmplayer automating code and make an instance of this class in my testing code. When I run this instance, I do not get any audio out? Best regards / Med venlig hilsen Deogratius Musiige Sennheiser Communications A/S Direct +45 5618 0320 -Original Message- From: Python-list [mailto:python-list-bounces+demu=senncom@python.org] On Behalf Of MRAB Sent: 23. juli 2014 12:57 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Automating windows media player on win7 On 2014-07-23 10:20, Deogratius Musiige wrote: Hi mate, The fix you provided works perfect. However, if I put it in a class and import, make instance and execute in another file, the audio is not played. What am I missing? This is what I do: I'm assuming that you're not actually calling the files FileA.py and FileB.py. *FileA.py* You need these imports: from win32com.client import Dispatch from time import sleep classWMPlayer(): ''' @ ''' #static var #first instance is a primary , following are secondary. #you can have one primary and as many secondary as you like def__init__(self): ''' init all attributes ''' #self.mp = Dispatch(WMPlayer.OCX) #pass defplay_song(self): mp = Dispatch(WMPlayer.OCX) tune = mp.newMedia(r./SleepAway.mp3) mp.currentPlaylist.appendItem(tune) mp.controls.play() sleep(1) mp.controls.playItem(tune) raw_input(Press Enter to stop playing) #sleep(5) mp.controls.stop() ** *FileB.py* You need this import: import unittest ** fromwmp.WMPlayer import* classsTest(unittest.TestCase): deftest_wmplayer(self): self.wmp = WMPlayer() self.wmp.play_song() You also need to run the test: if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.main() -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Automating windows media player on win7
On 2014-07-23 12:55, Deogratius Musiige wrote: Hi, I have the mentioned imports. And for the matter of fact I can play the audio. The problem is when I make a class with the wmplayer automating code and make an instance of this class in my testing code. When I run this instance, I do not get any audio out? [snip] When I made the changes I mentioned, the code worked for me. Could you post _all_ of the code you're trying, including the imports and the line that calls the test? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Automating windows media player on win7
On 2014-06-06 14:39, Deogratius Musiige wrote: Thanks a lot mate. You just made my day. I have looked around the net but cannot find the controls available. I would like to be able to: - get current playing track - get wmplayer state (playing/paused/stopped) - get the selected sound device [snip] Here's a bit more. Note how it seems to need short sleeps after certain actions (I don't know why!): #! python2.7 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import pywintypes from win32com.client import Dispatch from time import sleep tunes = [./plays.wav, ./plays.wav, ./plays.wav] # Whatever mp = Dispatch(WMPlayer.OCX) for name in tunes: tune = mp.NewMedia(name) mp.CurrentPlaylist.AppendItem(tune) mp.Controls.Play() sleep(0.25) for i in range(len(tunes)): print Current tune is, mp.Controls.CurrentItem.Name print 'Playing current tune' mp.Controls.PlayItem(mp.Controls.CurrentItem) print 'mp.Status says', mp.Status sleep(5) print 'Pausing' mp.Controls.Pause() print 'mp.Status says', mp.Status sleep(2) print 'Resuming' mp.Controls.Play() print 'mp.Status says', mp.Status sleep(5) mp.Controls.Next() sleep(0.25) mp.Controls.Stop() -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
RE: Automating windows media player on win7
Thanks a lot mate. You just made my day. I have looked around the net but cannot find the controls available. I would like to be able to: - get current playing track - get wmplayer state (playing/paused/stopped) - get the selected sound device Thanks a lot Br Deo -Original Message- From: Python-list [mailto:python-list-bounces+demu=senncom@python.org] On Behalf Of MRAB Sent: 4. juni 2014 21:23 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Automating windows media player on win7 On 2014-06-03 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() -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Automating windows media player on win7
On 06/06/2014 07:39 AM, Deogratius Musiige wrote: Thanks a lot mate. You just made my day. I have looked around the net but cannot find the controls available. I would like to be able to: - get current playing track - get wmplayer state (playing/paused/stopped) - get the selected sound device You might want to ask on the python win32-specific mailing list. https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 If you're not married to Windows Media Player, VLC is designed for this sort of thing. It's fully remoteable using a simple socket interface. https://github.com/CodeSturgeon/vlcrc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Automating windows media player on win7
On 2014-06-03 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() -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Automating windows media player on win7
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Deogratius Musiige dmusi...@sennheisercommunications.com 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() Br Deo First suggestion: post plain text to this list, not HTML. You don't need it to look like the above. :) Secondly: Is there a particular reason that you need to be automating Windows Media Player specifically? I have a similar project which works by sending keystrokes, which means it works with anything that reacts to keys; mainly, I use it with VLC. It can invoke a movie or audio file, can terminate the process, and can send a variety of commands via keys. It's designed to be used on a (trusted) LAN. Code is here: https://github.com/Rosuav/Yosemite Once something's invoked by the Yosemite project, it simply runs as normal inside VLC. Easy to debug audio problems, because they're managed the exact same way. Granted, this does assume that it's given full control of the screen (it's designed to manage full-screen video playback; in fact, my siblings are right now watching Toy Story 3 in the other room, using an old laptop driving a TV via S-Video, all managed via the above project), so it may not be ideal for background music on a computer you use for other things; but feel free to borrow ideas and/or code from there. (And for what it's worth, I use this as one of my sources of BGM when I'm coding - just let it invoke the file, then manually flip focus back to what I'm doing.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Automating windows media player on win7
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Deogratius Musiige dmusi...@sennheisercommunications.com wrote: Hi Chris, I want to have wmplayer as part of my automitized test for a headset via the USB HID. I want to be able to execute some of the following operations in my python script: 1. Play 2. Get playing track 3. Next 4. Get active device 5. … I am not sure if you are able to do this with your project Play, definitely. Next, not specifically, but by sending the letter 'n' you can achieve that. Active device? Not sure what you mean there. The one part that doesn't exist is Get playing track. But you could manage this the other way around, by not invoking a playlist at all. If you run vlc --play-and-exit some_file.wav, then when that process terminates, the track has finished. Kill the process or send Ctrl-Q to skip to the next track. Keep track (pun intended) of what file you've most recently invoked. I'm not sure how this ties in with your headset testing, though. By the look of things, the Yosemite project isn't a here it is, just deploy it solution, but you may find that there's some useful code you can borrow. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
RE: Automating windows media player on win7
Thanks for the good info Chris. I'll look into the project. However, I hope that I can find a solution using OCX dispatch. The dispatch provides all the functionalities I need. Best regards / Med venlig hilsen Deo -Original Message- From: Python-list [mailto:python-list-bounces+demu=senncom@python.org] On Behalf Of Chris Angelico Sent: 3. juni 2014 11:46 Cc: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Automating windows media player on win7 On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Deogratius Musiige dmusi...@sennheisercommunications.com wrote: Hi Chris, I want to have wmplayer as part of my automitized test for a headset via the USB HID. I want to be able to execute some of the following operations in my python script: 1. Play 2. Get playing track 3. Next 4. Get active device 5. … I am not sure if you are able to do this with your project Play, definitely. Next, not specifically, but by sending the letter 'n' you can achieve that. Active device? Not sure what you mean there. The one part that doesn't exist is Get playing track. But you could manage this the other way around, by not invoking a playlist at all. If you run vlc --play-and-exit some_file.wav, then when that process terminates, the track has finished. Kill the process or send Ctrl-Q to skip to the next track. Keep track (pun intended) of what file you've most recently invoked. I'm not sure how this ties in with your headset testing, though. By the look of things, the Yosemite project isn't a here it is, just deploy it solution, but you may find that there's some useful code you can borrow. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
RE: Automating windows media player on win7
Hi Chris, I want to have wmplayer as part of my automitized test for a headset via the USB HID. I want to be able to execute some of the following operations in my python script: 1. Play 2. Get playing track 3. Next 4. Get active device 5. ... I am not sure if you are able to do this with your project Best regards / Med venlig hilsen Deo -Original Message- From: Python-list [mailto:python-list-bounces+demu=senncom@python.org] On Behalf Of Chris Angelico Sent: 3. juni 2014 10:58 Cc: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Automating windows media player on win7 On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Deogratius Musiige dmusi...@sennheisercommunications.commailto:dmusi...@sennheisercommunications.com 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() Br Deo First suggestion: post plain text to this list, not HTML. You don't need it to look like the above. :) Secondly: Is there a particular reason that you need to be automating Windows Media Player specifically? I have a similar project which works by sending keystrokes, which means it works with anything that reacts to keys; mainly, I use it with VLC. It can invoke a movie or audio file, can terminate the process, and can send a variety of commands via keys. It's designed to be used on a (trusted) LAN. Code is here: https://github.com/Rosuav/Yosemite Once something's invoked by the Yosemite project, it simply runs as normal inside VLC. Easy to debug audio problems, because they're managed the exact same way. Granted, this does assume that it's given full control of the screen (it's designed to manage full-screen video playback; in fact, my siblings are right now watching Toy Story 3 in the other room, using an old laptop driving a TV via S-Video, all managed via the above project), so it may not be ideal for background music on a computer you use for other things; but feel free to borrow ideas and/or code from there. (And for what it's worth, I use this as one of my sources of BGM when I'm coding - just let it invoke the file, then manually flip focus back to what I'm doing.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
