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Control Windows Media Play through VFP6+
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What I would like to do is capture streaming audio off the Internet programmatically. I would want to schedule a job to launch at a specific time, connect to the website, start the streaming and then capture it to a file. I don't think I'm asking for much... 
Thank you.
Thank you.
Using the Object Browser in VFP 7.0/8.0, shows that the Media Play has a very large and diverse object model. Perhaps you could tell us specifically what you want to do and a simple example could be provided.
Have you done any searching in the MSDN KnowledgeBase?
( There are many HOWTO: documents, and the differences in using COM between Access, VB and VFP are usually very minimal.
Rick
Have you done any searching in the MSDN KnowledgeBase?
( There are many HOWTO: documents, and the differences in using COM between Access, VB and VFP are usually very minimal.
Rick
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evening
I know this probably may not be much help - but here's what we did when we needed to record phonecalls (call centre environment).
The phone system used tapi and when a call was taken, tapi returned a value - we looked for that value and started our recording. The recording was done using some VB code we found on the net (sorry can't remember where - was 6 months ago and a different company) & made into a an OCX which was called from VFP.
I guess in your case, when the streaming starts/connection is made Media player or will return something. You could look for the VB code & create the ocx (or there may be freeware ones out there), then use the OCX to perform the recording.
We had some success using Sound recorder but that only records a minute of sound - so you may not want to explore that.
monkey
If you get anywhere - post the answer - i'm intrigued
I know this probably may not be much help - but here's what we did when we needed to record phonecalls (call centre environment).
The phone system used tapi and when a call was taken, tapi returned a value - we looked for that value and started our recording. The recording was done using some VB code we found on the net (sorry can't remember where - was 6 months ago and a different company) & made into a an OCX which was called from VFP.
I guess in your case, when the streaming starts/connection is made Media player or will return something. You could look for the VB code & create the ocx (or there may be freeware ones out there), then use the OCX to perform the recording.
We had some success using Sound recorder but that only records a minute of sound - so you may not want to explore that.
monkey
If you get anywhere - post the answer - i'm intrigued
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