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On 06/06/2014 07:39 AM, Deogratius Musiige wrote:
> Thanks a lot mate. 
> 
> You just made my day. 
> I have looked around the net but cannot find the controls available. 
> 
> I would like to be able to:
> - get current playing track
> - get wmplayer state (playing/paused/stopped)
> - get the selected sound device

You might want to ask on the python win32-specific mailing list.
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32

If you're not married to Windows Media Player, VLC is designed for this
sort of thing.  It's fully remoteable using a simple socket interface.

 https://github.com/CodeSturgeon/vlcrc