From: Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@...>
Date: 2006-01-13T06:50:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question on music/windows

This sounded like an interesting challenge - here's a simple interface
to the Windows Media Player:
---
# SimpleWinMediaPlayer.rb
# - Adam Shelly, January 2006
#
require "win32ole"
class SimpleWinMediaPlayer
  def initialize
    @mp = WIN32OLE.new("WMPlayer.ocx")
    p @mp
    @control = @mp.controls
  end
  def file= str
    @mp.URL= str
    @media = @mp.currentMedia
    @control.currentItem = @media
  end
  def file
    @mp.url
  end
  def play
    if @control.isAvailable "play"
      @control.play
    else
      @control.playItem @control.currentItem
    end
  end
  def pause
    @control.pause
  end
  def stop
    @control.stop
  end
  def rewind
    if @control.isAvailable "fastReverse"
      @control.fastReverse
    else
      seek_to 0
    end
  end
  def fforward
    @control.fastForward
  end
  def current_pos
    @control.currentPositionString
  end
  def seek_to pos
   # takes argument as S[.ms] or "S[.ms]"  or "[MM]:SS[:ms]"
    if pos =~ /(\d*):(\d+)(:(\d*))?/
      pos = $1.to_f*60+$2.to_f+$4.to_f/1000.0
    end
    @control.currentPosition = pos.to_f
  end
  def duration
    @media.duration
  end
end

----
basic usage:
player = SimpleWinMediaPlayer.new
player.file = "c:/whatever.mp3"
player.play

Hope this helps

-Adam

On 1/12/06, Jb Piacentino <jb@piacentino.com> wrote:
> Yes I got this one, but this only deals with getting infos on the file -
> does not help me with playing it !
>
> --