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Windows Media Player 11 SDK Cdrom.driveSpecifier 

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Cdrom.driveSpecifier

The driveSpecifier property retrieves the CD or DVD drive letter.

Syntax

Possible Values

This property is a read-only String.

Remarks

Typically, DVD drives can play CD media, but CD drives cannot play DVD media. This property retrieves a drive specifier for a zero-based drive index within the range retrieved using *CdromCollection.*count. The value retrieved takes the form X:, where X represents the drive letter.

To retrieve the value of this property, read access to the library is required. For more information, see Library Access.

Windows Media Player 10 Mobile: This property is not supported.

Example Code

The following JScript example uses Cdrom.driveSpecifier to fill an HTML text area named myText with a comma-separated list of available CD and DVD drives. The Player object was created with ID = "Player".

Requirements

Version: Windows Media Player version 7.0 or later.

Library: Use wmp.dll.

Platform: Windows XP or later for DVD.

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