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C++ - Running Windows Media Player from Console Application - COM

Aug 16, 2014 See the question and my original answer on StackOverflow

You can get directly the IWMPPlayer4 interface which is easier to use, like this:

IWMPPlayer4 *pMediaPlayer;

CoCreateInstance(CLSID_WindowsMediaPlayer, NULL, CLSCTX_ALL, IID_IWMPPlayer4, (void**)&pMediaPlayer);
pMediaPlayer->openPlayer(_bstr_t(L"C:\\background.mp3"));