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Windows Media Player 11 SDK A Basic Playlist 

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A Basic Playlist

The following playlist example shows a basic set of playlist elements. When writing your own code, you will need to change all URLs and file names to valid file names that are accessible to your Windows Media Player.

Code Example

The following table provides details on the use of each element in the example code.

Line Description
<ASX version = "3.0"> The ASX element identifies for the client (Windows Media Player) that this is a Windows Media metafile playlist. The version attribute specifies the version number of the metafile elements.
<TITLE>Basic Playlist Demo</TITLE> The TITLE element identifies the title of the playlist as a whole. Windows Media Player displays this metadata as the show title.
<ENTRY> Begins the ENTRY element. An ENTRY element is a way to define a particular clip in a playlist
<TITLE>An Entry in a the basic playlist</TITLE> Identifies the title of the playlist clip . It is different than the previous TITLE element because this one is nested within an ENTRY element. Windows Media Player displays this metadata as the clip title.
<AUTHOR>Microsoft Corporation</AUTHOR> The AUTHOR element identifies the author of the media clip . Windows Media Player displays this metadata as the clip AUTHOR.
<COPYRIGHT>(c)1999 Microsoft Corporation</COPYRIGHT> The COPYRIGHT element identifies any copyright associated with the media content. This information is displayed as the clip COPYRIGHT by Windows Media Player.
<!-- This is a comment. Change the following path to point to your Windows media file --> A comment. Comments are visible only when the code is viewed, and are in the same format as XML comments.
<REF HREF = "mms://proseware.com/path/Yourfile.wma" /> Actual pointer to the media file. The REF element identifies the line as a pointer to media content, while the HREF attribute is the URL to the media file. In this case, the URL uses the MMS protocol, so it points to a Windows Media server.

Media files on your media server are not usually kept in the same location as your HTML documents.

Note the use of the XML-like closing of the element , "/>", instead of "</REF>". Because this element does not have child elements, it closes itself.
</ENTRY> Specifies the end of the ENTRY element.
</ASX> Specifies the end of the playlist.

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