Mp3 input

[Wil Moosa]

I’m desperately, desperately seeking for an answer on this one.

I have a userform with a X-control media player. I know that I can use the properties to define the mp3 input. I need to know if it is possible to define the input differently. I like to refer to the active cell (where the full path can be found).

Ivan came up with the following but that does not work.

Sub PlayPlayer1()
MediaPlayer1.Open "D:\Audio\MP3_Pop\Al Stewart - On the border.mp3"
End sub

I scavenged the web for information on this a few nights but correct me if I'm wrong but I find the userform info on the media player very poorly documented.

 

[Scott Huish]

Are you using the Windows Media Player Control?

 

[Wil Moosa]

Are you using the Windows Media Player Control?

Yes, but I can't find any good "manual" for configuring it my way...

 

[Scott Huish]

Give something like this a try:

Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
WindowsMediaPlayer1.URL = "file://" & ActiveCell.Text
End Sub

 

[Wil Moosa]

(translated) Error message is: "Windows Media Player can not play the file as the given protocol is not supported. Try to open the file in the dialog window "open URL" with another transport protocol (e.g. http, rts") ".

 

[Scott Huish]

What version of Windows Media Player are you running?

I tested my code with Windows Media Player 9, XL2002 running on Windows 2000 Pro.

 

[Wil Moosa]

Hotpepper, I fiddled a bit with your code and suddenly realised that your composition of the path was didfferent from mine. The code that worked fine finally was WindowsMediaPlayer1.URL = ActiveCell.Value

When using WindowsMediaPlayer1.URL for searching the web... plenty of additional information turned up. I learned there that the coding for the several versions of the player is different (after version 9?).

Thanks for the help with this one.

 

[Scott Huish]

I don't know if this will help, but it didn't seem to care if it had the file:// part or not:

Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
WindowsMediaPlayer1.URL = ActiveCell.Text
End Sub