How to interface with Windows Media Player in C#

Question

I need to synchronize Windows Media Player with my application. I want to show the current song that WMP is playing in a ListBox in real time, with updates when WMP changes songs. How can I implement this?

Answer 1

Poll HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\RecentFileList\File perhaps.

Answer 2

A bit of sniffing around in Google gave me this: http://brandon.fuller.name/archives/hacks/nowplaying/wmp/, it looks like you need to write a plugin for WMP that exposes the information to your application. Depending on what you need/cost, the Plugin on that page might do the job!

Answer 3

We've controlled Windows Media Player through the Windows Media library (wmp.dll) and .NET Remoting, using a singleton service.

Answer 4

Look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/56478/how-to-interact-with-windows-media-player-in-c/764856#764856