SOLVED! Can I get Windows Media Player to start playing MP3's automatically when simply opened?

[Techronious]

Okay, I have this front little panel thing on my laptop that can play cd's and mp3's and stuff but I have to assign it to a program.

I used to have it with toshiba's media player, but that player has trouble with some high bitrate files for some reason so I'm trying to get it to work with Windows Media Player and the front panel thing opens it up without any problems at all but it doesn't "auto-start" like the toshiba media player.

So I was wondering if I can just open Windows Media Player and just have it start playing from my MP3 list automatically. Is this possible?

And if it is not possible with Windows Media Player, can you do it with Winamp? Cuz that's my next player to try.

Thanks.

 

[Bloodstein]

Ok, this is Vendor specific...

but as a general guide, try looking in the control panel for some option that allows you to do the switch...

 

[Techronious]

I know it's vendor specific. I guess it's not possible in wmp.

Is it possible to do it with winamp?

 

[Bloodstein]

Basically, if you can switch the program that is invoked upon pressing the "button", then you're able to change it to any program you wish....wimamp, wmp, etc...

 

[Techronious]

I guess I wasn't clear enough with my original post.

I CAN switch which program is associated with my front little play button, HoWeVeR, some programs, such as WMP, will not automatically play when I press the play button because it doesn't "auto-play" like the Toshiba Media Player does. It doesn't start a song without clicking on a song first. If I can get it to start a song without having to press any secondary button, that would be great. The Toshiba Media Player has trouble with some of my 320 kbps MP3's so I tried WMP and discovered that it doesn't auto-play like I want it to. Is there any way I can get it to auto-play? And if so, how? And if not, does WINAMP have the ability to auto-play? Because surprisingly enough, I don't have WINAMP right now, and don't want to download it if it cannot play after simply double clicking the WINAMP ICON (or pressing the play button on the front of my laptop).

 

[Techronious]

bump

 

[Techronious]

pMUB

 

[Confused]

For Winamp 2.x

Winamp 3 does this built in


Confused

 

[Techronious]

thank you, that works well