DDN wrote:
[Quoted Text] > Anybody hi there!
>
> I'm in frustration....I need to query for bitrate,artist,title, etc
> information of mediafile (mostly mp3) in my .NET 2.0 application (winforms)
> Looked at the Windows Media Player SDK documentation and see two ways:
>
> 1. add my mediafile to WMP media library and after that query its attributes
> 2. start playing my mediafile and immediately query attributes and stop
> playing
>
>
> All two ways are no good in my opinion (and frustrating me):
>
> 1. because we may do not have write access to user medialibrary (to perform
> cycle "add->query info->delete")
>
> 2. because user workstation may haven't got any sound devices at all and
> playing will fail. Second it's be very funny - start playing file to query
> his properties
>
>
>
> Is any other ways are exist? I.E.:
>
> ........
>
> AxMediaPlayer.URL="C:\\myfile.mp3";
>
> AxMediaPlayer.currentMedia.getItemInfo("Bitrate");
>
> .........
>
You want "Windows Media Format 11 SDK"
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsmedia/bb190309.aspx
You may have to wrap some stuff up using COM Interop, but there is some
managed sample code.
Glyn
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