Provides a friendly User Interface for playing songs in your Windows Media Player library.
This app works fine for me, but it does use an activeX media player control. The control
has been updated infrequently by Microsoft, with 2011 being the last, I think.
There is VERY little documentation or reference for using the control with VBA on the
internet. 99.9% of the coverage is for vb, vb.net, C#, etc. So I had to plough my
own way, and here is the fruit of my labors.
Some of the methods and properties produced unexpected results, or no results for me.
I found workarounds for all critical code oddities and made notes of same with inline
code comments.
This app addresses Audio only. It can probably be adapted to handle video as well,
and is possibly a better starting point than proceeding from scratch. At this point in
time, I'm too burned out to attemp it. Getting audio to work reliably was a chore.
In references, if you show more than one Windows Media Player checkbox, choose the one for wmp.dll
The program will automatically acquire your music library playlists, songs and artists.