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zPlayer is a standalone, intuitive, and fully functional media player. Built to suit my purpose, it is customizable to your taste. zPlayer is powered by winmm.dll, an integral part of Windows. Features No 3rd Party Dependencies: Utilizes only Windows components and standard AutoIt UDFs. Universal Playback: Supports all digital media formats, provided proper codecs are installed. Independent Video Window: Separate video window with a minimal GUI for music. Versatile Loading Options: Load files, folders, or an audio CD for playback. Marquee Style Display: Long file names are displayed in smooth, infinite marquee style. Smart Playlists: Automatically generated playlists and easy-to-make custom playlists. Hidden Playlist: Playlist is hidden by default but available on demand in shuffled or sorted formats. Context Menus: Options include Play This File, File Properties, Search Internet, Go to This Folder, Move Playlist Item, and Remove from Playlist. Interactive Interface: Double-click any item to play it, search strings in the playlist, and use hotkeys for most functions. Playback Controls: Forward, backward, pause, and change folder. Repeat Functions: A-B repeat, current file repeat, and multiple-file repeat. Volume Control: Increase, decrease, or mute sound volume, synchronized with Windows volume mixer. Unmutes audio device on startup. Playback Environment Save: Save playback environment on session termination and resume in the next session. Resume Playback: Option to resume playback from where it was left off, with audio fade-in. Efficient Performance: Very low CPU and memory usage. Technical Information The script runs or compiles in x64 mode. To change this setting, comment out #AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64=Y. The attached zPlayer.exe was compiled in x64 mode and is not flagged by Windows Defender as malicious. Compiling to x86 may result in false positive flags by Windows Defender. Feedback If you find an error, please download the latest version, as it may already be corrected. Otherwise, I would appreciate it if you could kindly let me know. zPlayer-NoUI.au3 The download section includes zPlayer-NoUI.au3. This is an abbreviated version of zPlayer, which is a music player controlled by hotkeys only, without a GUI. Note: zPlayer was tested to work in Windows 10 and 11. It should work in Windows 7, too. I would like to know if there is any compatibility problem.

Purpose (from Microsoft's website) The HTTP Server API enables applications to communicate over HTTP without using Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). Applications can register to receive HTTP requests for particular URLs, receive HTTP requests, and send HTTP responses. The HTTP Server API includes SSL support so that applications can exchange data over secure HTTP connections without IIS. Description There have been several times in the past that I wanted to either retrieve information from one of my PCs or execute commands on one of my PCs, whether it was from across the world or sitting on my couch. Since AutoIt is one of my favorite tools for automating just about anything on my PC, I looked for ways to make to make it happen. Setting up a full blown IIS server seemed like overkill so I looked for lighter weight solutions. I thought about creating my own AutoIt UDP or TCP server but that just wasn't robust enough, Then I found Microsoft's HTTP Server API and it looked very promising. After doing a little research into the APIs, I found that it was flexible & robust enough to handle just about any of the tasks that I required now and in the future. So a while back I decided to wrap the API functionality that I needed into an AutoIt UDF file to allow me to easily create the functionality I needed at the time. It has come in very handy over the years. Of course it wasn't all wrapped up with a nice little bow like it is now. That only happened when I decided to share it with anyone else who could use it or learn from it. The example file that I included is a very granular example of the steps required to get a lightweight HTTP Server up and listening for GET requests. The UDF is a wrapper for the Microsoft APIs. That means to do anything over and above what I show in the example, one would probably have to have at least a general knowledge of APIs or the ability to figure out which APIs/functions to use, what structures and data is needed to be passed to them, and in what order. However, the UDF gives a very solid foundation on which to build upon. Of course, if anyone has questions about the UDF or how to implement any particular functionality, I would probably help to the extent that I could or point you in the right direction so that you can figure out how to implement your own solution. The APIs included in the UDF are the ones that I needed in the past to do what I needed to do. If any additional APIs need to be added to the UDF file, please make those suggestions in the related forum topic. Being that this is basically an AutoIt wrapper for the Microsoft API functions, there's no need to create AutoIt-specific documentation. All of the UDF functions, structures, constants, and enumerations are named after their Microsoft API counterparts. Therefore, you can refer to Microsoft's extensive documentation of their HTTP Server API. As stated earlier, if there is one or more APIs that you find yourself needing for your particular solution, please suggest it in the related Example Scripts forum topic. Related Links Microsoft HTTP Server API - Start Page Microsoft HTTP Server API - API v2 Reference Microsoft HTTP Server API - Programming Model