Launching windows CD Player?

[bmopro]

I've searched the forum, and can't find any answers. Curious if anyone can help...
How do I (or can I) Launch windows cd player and have it start playing the audio tracks on my cd?
Thanks for the help.
brian

[RobertB]

I am hardly the code guy around here...but, my experience is that you have to include a specific player if you want a specific player to play your sound files. Most computer assign a 'program' to open certain types of files. I.e. Music Match opens my audio files...

[Corey]

Using the FILE > OPEN action will cause a file to get opened in it's default viewer, just point it to the file, i.e. MP3 or M3U or any other type...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[element78]

If you want a less bulky version of Media Player to open, you can instead launch:

c:\program files\windows media player\mplayer2.exe /play %SrcDrv%

that will play CD music (not mp3's), starting from track 1 on the drive that the CD with your AMS app is currently in.

[Corey]

Cool tip Adam...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[element78]

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[bmopro]

So would you use the file/execute action? and type in c:\program files\windows media player\mplayer2.exe /play %SrcDrv% under the "File to execute" Parameter.
And do you type anything in the "Command Line Argument"
and "Working directory" parameters?
Thanks,
brian

[Corey]

Neither of those apply in this case.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[bmopro]

Corey,
The project that I'm working on has audio tracks(cd), and multimedia content. When the initial menu pops up, the first choice the user has is a button that says, "Listen to cd". What do I do in this buttons actions to have it start playing the audio portion of the cd in the default media player?
thanks for your much needed help! :-)
brian

[bmopro]

I tried figuring out a way of maybe just lauching the systems cd player,(assuming most everyone has it installed in windows)
here's what I thought of...
Have the button opening the file...
%SystemRoot%\System32\cdplayer.exe
But when I try and work it, I get the error message "File not Found". Am I on the right track...
brian

[Corey]

Not sure, I always integrat emy audio right into my projects, usually as MP3. I wouldn't use CD Audio nor .wav to distribute personally but that's just my tastes... I'm an MP3 fan, here's an example of using a web object to create an MP3 jukebox for examplehttp://www.indigorose.com/ubbthreads...fpart=&vc=

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[bmopro]

Finally figured it out!
Most windows cdplayer.exe file are stored in the sytem32 folder in the windows directory. A simple action of...
%WinDir%\System32\cdplayer.exe
launches the windows cd player letting the user start the audio portion of the cd.
Seems to work fine!
brian

[Corey]

Cool... [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[Brett]

Better yet, use "%SysDir%\cdplayer.exe". This will ensure that the path to the system folder is correct on all Windows versions.

[Worm]

A little ditty, 'bout controlling the cd-rom
a DLL I made to help you along.

Download Sample and DLL

BTW, be careful trying to use cdplayer.exe. There is no such file on my system (XP Pro).