Windows Media Player WMP 11: Command Line Options

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WMP11 is out. Controlling media player from the command line just got a lot easier. Check out some of the new options.


Using my notebook as a portable media device, I often setup shortcuts to do things quickly. WMP11’s new command line options are a great addition.

This option will open wmp and play the playlist listed (NameOfPlayList)
wmplayer /Playlist NameOfPlayList

Play a song (nameofsong.wma):
wmplayer “c:\nameofsong.wma”

Play a song or video in fullscreen mode:
wmplayer “c:\nameofvideo.wmv” /fullscreen

Play the DVD device:
wmplayer /device:DVD

Play a song with the player in a certain skin (headspace):
wmplayer “c:\nameofsong.wma”?wmpskin=headspace

Open player in the Copy From CD Mode:
wmplayer /Task CDAudio

These all can be combined as well… for example…

Play DVD in fullscreen:
wmplayer /device:DVD /fullscreen

 

9 Comments -


  1. EdwardATeller said on October 9, 2008

    Can I play a playlist and start it in full screen mode? I tried this:

    “C:Program FilesWindows Media Player/wmplayer.exe” “C:UsersaMusicPlaylistsAll.wpl” /fullscreen

    in a .BAT file, and it doesn’t work. Play list starts, but not in full screen mode.

  2. R2.G2 said on December 14, 2008

    Here is your .BAT file:

    c:
    cd UsersaMusicPlaylists
    “C:Program FilesWindows Media Player/wmplayer.exe” /Playlist All /fullscreen

  3. paulo said on January 28, 2009

    How to close windows media player in command line ?

  4. kumar said on June 17, 2009

    nircmd.exe win close class “CabinetWClass”

  5. Anonymous said on December 2, 2009

    how do you close the player when the mov or music finishes playing?

  6. Anonymous said on February 4, 2010

    ehm…. the .bat file should be:

    start wmplayer /Playlist NameOfYourPlaylist

    example:
    playlist is called ‘Music’,

    start wmplayer /Playlist Music

  7. Poul-Erik Hansen said on May 26, 2010

    Unkonwn command line options:
    /prefetch:3
    /device:AudioCD

  8. Anonymous said on January 20, 2011

    Is there a loop command line option? We need to start a video (fullscreen) via command line and have it loop till we shut it down.

    Thanks,

    Dave

  9. Vaxoooo23 said on May 13, 2011

    how open url with command? 

 

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