Been a few years since I've been on this forum, glad to have it still around for help. I'm now getting back into coding and want to make a media player with my now 12 year old son. I have many of the basics we want in my head already on paper, however I'm stuck when it comes to this more advanced option. Reminder, this is an option that we want 100% to happen, and the main reason to even make this program happen. I hope it's possible.

Q: We use WMP (yes I know about others that may be better, but we like this one) and enjoy it's simple features. However, we'd like a feature that would allow us to use the WMP control in VB 6 and somehow give the user the option to select custom playlists. (Assuming all tags are correct of course) For example; If I wanted to hear only country songs that are rated 5 & 4 stars, or only hip hop songs that came out in 1996.

We're thinking about using pre made options that you can toggle. So basically we will have options for the genres, ratings, artist, etc, basically everything we already have tagged in WMP. When the user toggles the options, the playlist updates when the user clicks OK.

We know we can do this feature inside WMP by simply selecting fields or sorting and creating lists, but we get new music all the time and want to also have our own custom player.

So is this even possible? To pull tag information from WMP or maybe from the source files themselves and utilize it as an option in VB6? Perhaps someone knows a great place to find advanced tutorials on the WMP VB6 stuff. I googled for a bit, but we're spending a lot of time sorting through junk.

- Thank you
DanMnz