Using Windows Media Player as the Universal Player
June 7, 2006
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Update2:
Jon has packaged this properly and put up in his tools website. Please download by clicking the image above.
Update1: modified original code as per Jon’s suggestion
I was tired of having too many media players (iTunes, QuickTime, Real, WinAmp) and wanted just my windows media player do all the stuff. This is what I did:
Uninstalled all third party players ( I love WinAmp, so may be I’ll come back to it later)
Installed Klite Mega Codec pack and used "5. Lots of stuff" option while installation, this took care of most of the stuff.
Installed OpenPLSinWM from Jon for my shoutcasts
Modified OpenPLSinWM , you can download here: so that I can listen to AAC+ streams
Note: For aac+ support in Windows Media Player, please install orban plugin.
code:
1using System.IO;
2using System.Net;
3using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
4
5 namespace OpenPLSinWM
6
7{
8class OpenPlsInWM
9
10 {
11 [STAThread]
12 static void Main(string[] args)
13 {
14
15 if (args.GetUpperBound(0) > -1)
16 {
17
18 string filename = args[0];
19
20 using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(filename))
21 {
22 string pls = sr.ReadToEnd().ToLower();
23 Regex http = new Regex(@"http://(.*)");
24 string url = http.Match(pls).Value;
25
26 WebResponse wres = WebRequest.Create(url).GetResponse();
27
28 //if aac+ stream replace http with icyx to play with orban
29
30 if(wres.Headers.Get("content-type")=="audio/aacp")
31 url=url.Replace("http","icyx");
32
33
34 if(url!=string.Empty)
35 System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("wmplayer.exe",url);
36
37 else
38 Console.Write("could not read stream url info");
39
40 }
41 }
42
43
44 else
45
46 {
47 Console.WriteLine("Usage: OpenPlsInWM "playlist.pls"");
48 Console.WriteLine("Associate PLS file extension with this application to allow Windows Media Player to play them.");
49 }
50 }
51 }
52}
53
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