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More => Old Versions => Media Center 15 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Marcel de Man on November 13, 2010, 01:15:49 pm

Title: Dos command to handle Media Center
Post by: Marcel de Man on November 13, 2010, 01:15:49 pm

Media center use to have a dos command that could be used to control Media Center.
Like mc12.exe /mcc 10003,0 would skip to the next song. Can this still be done with mc15?

Thanks
Marcel

Title: Re: Dos command to handle Media Center
Post by: jmone on November 13, 2010, 02:03:27 pm

Sure, here is the list
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Media_Center_Core_Commands

Title: Re: Dos command to handle Media Center
Post by: Marcel de Man on November 14, 2010, 09:37:34 am

What executable do I use?

Title: Re: Dos command to handle Media Center
Post by: jmone on November 14, 2010, 12:52:58 pm

MC15.exe

Title: Re: Dos command to handle Media Center
Post by: Matt on November 15, 2010, 11:58:45 am

Some more info here:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/The_Command_Line

Title: Re: Dos command to handle Media Center
Post by: Marcel de Man on November 15, 2010, 04:43:28 pm

Thanks got it working again.
Couldn't find the mc15.exe never realized that it could be in the system32 folder.

Thanks for the help
Marcel

Title: Re: Dos command to handle Media Center
Post by: Matt on November 15, 2010, 04:54:44 pm

Quote from: MarceldeMAN on November 15, 2010, 04:43:28 pm

Thanks got it working again.
Couldn't find the mc15.exe never realized that it could be in the system32 folder.

Thanks for the help
Marcel

An interesting historical fact: we originally put the launcher in the system folder because RealPlayer would steal file associations with a background daemon (like once a minute) if something that wasn't in the system folder was set as the program to handle a media extension.

I don't know if they still do this sort of thing, but we have carried the practice forward in part because it's convenient for mc15.exe to be in the default execution path so that it can be run quickly without worrying about pathing.