open URL in Media Player

How to open a URL in Windows Media Player directly from Matlab? Can it be possible with system() ?

Answer 1

[Kaustubha Govind]

Have you tried using the OPEN command?

[Vaibhav]

open command only allows to open the file or program in specified path. Its not working for inserting a URL.

Answer 2

[Fangjun Jiang]

You should be able to use system(). You just need to specify the full path of your wmplayer.exe. I tried below and the latter worked. I believe you can use URL to replace the file in my example.

>> system('wmplayer')
'wmplayer' is not recognized as an internal or external command, 
operable program or batch file. 
ans =
     1
>> system('C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache\wmplayer c:\MyMusic\title.wma')
ans =
     0

[Vaibhav]

No, it's not working.

[Fangjun Jiang]

It worked for me. You need to find the full path of your wmplayer.exe

system('C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache\wmplayer http://www.satelitemusical.net/mj-akon-hold-my-hand.wma')