Grrrr Windows Media Player 10
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Need some help here. I listen to the radio here at work the problem is when I click on the play button WMP opens IE and tries to go to the web site. The web site it's self has been blocked by policy and the attempts get logged. Now it is not going to be long before I need to explain why I keep trying to access the site. Is there a way to disable this ability in WMP? I have turned off every thing I can and it still opens IE! Thanks Will
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Need some help here. I listen to the radio here at work the problem is when I click on the play button WMP opens IE and tries to go to the web site. The web site it's self has been blocked by policy and the attempts get logged. Now it is not going to be long before I need to explain why I keep trying to access the site. Is there a way to disable this ability in WMP? I have turned off every thing I can and it still opens IE! Thanks Will
Use your hosts file to redirect the website to 127.0.0.1? There are other options about disabling internet access in the options, but they probably don't apply here and in my experience it cripples the program in other ways. I like WMP 10, mostly... but there are several things it just does wrong, or in the most irritating way possible (ever try manually editing MP3 track info?). I've tried alternatives, but I always come back to WMP for some feature or other. I haven't tried WinAmp in a while, does it no longer completely and utterly suck? (You know, fixed bitmaps set to either "unusably tiny" or "unsightly huge and pixellated"?)
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Need some help here. I listen to the radio here at work the problem is when I click on the play button WMP opens IE and tries to go to the web site. The web site it's self has been blocked by policy and the attempts get logged. Now it is not going to be long before I need to explain why I keep trying to access the site. Is there a way to disable this ability in WMP? I have turned off every thing I can and it still opens IE! Thanks Will
Have you considered asking that the site be put on the non-blocked list? There must be a reason for it to be blocked.
"One must learn from the bite of the fire to leave it alone." - Native American Proverb
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Have you considered asking that the site be put on the non-blocked list? There must be a reason for it to be blocked.
"One must learn from the bite of the fire to leave it alone." - Native American Proverb
The site is blocked by corporate policy and I dont have a justifiable business reason for accessing the website it's self, as long as I can get the music to stream that is all I care about. I will try to modify the HOSTS file and see if that works. thanks again Will
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The site is blocked by corporate policy and I dont have a justifiable business reason for accessing the website it's self, as long as I can get the music to stream that is all I care about. I will try to modify the HOSTS file and see if that works. thanks again Will
OMalleyW wrote: The site is blocked by corporate policy and I dont have a justifiable business reason for accessing the website That would indicate to me that they have a reason for not wanting employees to listen to Internet radio. For some companies, streaming audio is a major source of bandwidth hogging.
"One must learn from the bite of the fire to leave it alone." - Native American Proverb
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Need some help here. I listen to the radio here at work the problem is when I click on the play button WMP opens IE and tries to go to the web site. The web site it's self has been blocked by policy and the attempts get logged. Now it is not going to be long before I need to explain why I keep trying to access the site. Is there a way to disable this ability in WMP? I have turned off every thing I can and it still opens IE! Thanks Will
By co-incidence I'm just working on a little utility to help me organize playlists by using the WMP sdk and so far I've got a tiny test c# app up that plays the url/song of my choice when I open it (about 3 lines of code plus reference to wmp.dll). It doesn't even open the interface for WMP the way I coded it so it's not likely to open the website, but I'd have to test it to see. What's the URL?
"A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one."
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By co-incidence I'm just working on a little utility to help me organize playlists by using the WMP sdk and so far I've got a tiny test c# app up that plays the url/song of my choice when I open it (about 3 lines of code plus reference to wmp.dll). It doesn't even open the interface for WMP the way I coded it so it's not likely to open the website, but I'd have to test it to see. What's the URL?
"A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one."
that is sweet! The website is http://www.knac.com I would really like to check out that app sometime :D Thanks Will
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that is sweet! The website is http://www.knac.com I would really like to check out that app sometime :D Thanks Will
Cool! Yup, it works just fine, the actual url for WMP lowband is: http://www.knac.com/streams/knac_wmp.asx[^] If you have .net and WMP on your station you can just run my app, I can send you the source or the compiled app, but it's really nothing much involved, it has no interface at all to speak of, but I'm listening to "smoking in the boys room" right now on KNAC! If you can build an app there it's really only a couple of lines of code: Import or Reference Windows/System32/wmp.dll and then in your code: WMPLib.WindowsMediaPlayer Player = new WMPLib.WindowsMediaPlayer(); Player.URL=@"http://www.knac.com/streams/knac\_wmp.asx"; Player.controls.play(); Only problem for you is that it might be blocked anyway since the url is almost the same as the one that you would open in IE
"A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one."
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Need some help here. I listen to the radio here at work the problem is when I click on the play button WMP opens IE and tries to go to the web site. The web site it's self has been blocked by policy and the attempts get logged. Now it is not going to be long before I need to explain why I keep trying to access the site. Is there a way to disable this ability in WMP? I have turned off every thing I can and it still opens IE! Thanks Will
I hate Windows Media 10 myself for different reasons. Microsoft chose to not support MPEG video natively anymore. You have to go buy a license from your video card manufacturer (or a different company), then download the codec. I hate when someone sends me a link of a video to look at and I get the audio but a black screen. :mad: Regards, Brigg Thorp Senior Software Engineer Timex Corporation