From: Patrick Spence <patrick@...>
Date: 2006-10-11T04:48:45+09:00
Subject: Re: WMP WIN32OLE in Ruby/IRB problem

Mike wrote:
> The following code plays the playlist thourgh IRB in FXRI, but playback
> doesn't start when using IRB from the command line.
> 
> oPlayer = WIN32OLE.new("WMPlayer.ocx.7")
> oPlayer.Settings.autoStart = 1
> oPlayListCollection = oPlayer.PlayListCollection.GetAll()
> oPlayer.currentPlaylist = oPlayListCollection.item(0) #plays in FXRI,
> nothing happens in IRB
> 
> 
> also
> 
> oPlayer.Controls.play # doesn't work in IRB either.
> 
> I'm a newbie, so maybe I'm missing something obvious? any thoughts
> appreciated.

I'm seeing the same problem here. I thought it was something funky that 
IRB is doing, or *not* doing. Then I cobbled-up a script and ran it... 
still doesn't play. The only way I could get anything to play was by 
using the .openPlayer() method.

  oPlayer.openPlayer(<my .mp3 file>)

I added the following line after the one that assigns the 
.currentPlayList property...

puts("Playing track \"#{oPlayer.currentMedia.name}\" from the 
\"#{oPlayer.currentPlayList.name}\" playlist")

which spits out something like:
  Playing track "Mix 04-05" from the "All Music" playlist


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