Python & Windows Media Player

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Hello,

I got python to launch windows media player when I say "play music" and now I'm wondering if I can have it automatically play the "Music" playlist that I have created on WMP(Windows Media Player). Because right now I have to physically click on the "Music" playlist and hit the play button.

Is there a way to do that?
If so, how?

Thanks in advance.

  #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                #Open Stuff on the Computer
    #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #Open Windows Media Player
    if ('music' in command) or ('media player' in command):
        speak('Launching Music')
        command = command.replace("music", "")
        command = command.replace("media player", "")
        musicApp = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe"
        os.startfile(musicApp)

[menator01]

A quick search turned up these links. May help you out.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2367...dia-player
Look to the bottom post on the above link
https://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/5...yer-python

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So I have the path the the playlist is located:
C:\Users\BX-PC\Music\Playlists\Music

so how do I get it so my script launches windows media player and navigates to the playlist location so it can play it?

    #Open Windows Media Player
    if ('music' in command) or ('media player' in command):
        speak('Launching Music')
        command = command.replace("music", "")
        command = command.replace("media player", "")
        musicApp = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe"
        os.startfile(musicApp)

[ndc85430]

Does Windows Media Player take command line arguments that let you specify files to play?

[deanhystad]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...parameters

/Playlist PlaylistName Open the Player and play the specified playlist.

[menator01]

This works for me using deanhystad's link

import subprocess
subprocess.call("C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe /Playlist mymusic")

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This works for me using deanhystad's link

import subprocess
subprocess.call("C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe /Playlist mymusic")

Thanks, that worked.

Now is there any way to have my script continue running in the background, instead of waiting for me to close windows media player?

[menator01]

You could look into threading. I'm not familiar with it though.

[bowlofred]

subprocess.call (and the preferred subprocess.run) wait for a program to exit.

As long as you don't need to interact with WMP but just start it, you can probably get away with subprocess.Popen().

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Thanks!
That's exactly what I needed.