I can't help you directly, but I looked into this before and very quickly it
seemed like I needed to download the Windows Media SDK, anything beyond
loading a WMP activex control in your application, was nowhere to be found..
good luck..
http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/librar...layer10sdk.asp
"Silverton Mike" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I need to retrieve Windows Media Player playlists programmatically via C#
>from a desktop machine. Does WMP keep track of used/created playlists via
>registry entries or a saved file on the hard disk? I know WMP likes to save
>its playlists in directories such as:
>
> H:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Music\My Playlists
>
> but any .wpl files saved outside such a scheme wont be found if only
> looking here.
>
> I did find this directory:
>
> H:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Media
> Player
>
> but it only had a dummy .wpl file of sorts:
>
> <?wpl version="1.0"?>
> <smil>
> <head>
> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Windows Media Player --
> 9.0.0.2991"/>
> </head>
> </smil>
>
>
> Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. I'll continue to
> thumb through the MSDN sites and google hits to see what shows up on this
> topic.
>
> Michael Hughes - Silverton, Oregon