What else can cause an AxWindowsMediaPlayer to play? - vb.net

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I have a button in my program that grabs a bunch of information from a DataGridView object (volume, url, delay, etc) and using that, it plays a file. I'm trying to get the delay to work (wait x number of seconds before playing) and I'm pretty it will work, but whenever I press the button, the play starts immediately. There is no Ctlcontrols.play() anywhere in the program except after the delay, so I have no idea what is causing it to play.
I explained my problem a little bit more in comments. Sorry if I didn't explain my code very well. If you could just tell my what else could be causing my player to start immediately, that would probably be enough.
'snd_btn_go is the button that is supposed to start it.
'This sub doesn't matter as much for the problem, it will just go to SndCueGO() if both numbers are in the valid range.
Private Sub snd_btn_go_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles snd_btn_go.Click
Dim cue1 As Integer
Dim cue2 As Integer
cue1 = If(Integer.TryParse(snd_txt_cue_1.Text, cue1), Int(snd_txt_cue_1.Text), snd_num1)
If snd_txt_cue_2.Text <> "" Then
cue2 = If(Integer.TryParse(snd_txt_cue_2.Text, cue2), Int(snd_txt_cue_2.Text), snd_num2)
Else
cue2 = -1
End If
If (cue1 <= dgSound.Rows.Count - 1 And cue1 > 0) Then
SndCueGO(cue1, cue2)
End If
End Sub
'This sub pulls all the info from the correct row in the DataGrid and assigns it to a list. It'll check if the start volume and end volume are the same and if they're not, it'll fade to the end volume.
Private Sub SndCueGO(cue1, cue2)
Dim cues() = {cue1, cue2}
snd_num1 = cue1
Dim cuedata1 = snd_ds.Tables(0).Rows(cue1 - 1)
Dim cuedata2 = snd_ds.Tables(0).Rows(cue1 - 1)
If cue2 <> -1 Then
snd_num2 = cue2
cuedata2 = snd_ds.Tables(0).Rows(cue2 - 1)
End If
Dim data() = {cuedata1, cuedata2}
For i = 0 To 1
If cues(i) <> -1 Then
snd_delay(i) = data(i).Item("Delay")
snd_startvol(i) = safeNum(data(i).Item("Start_Vol."))
snd_file(i) = data(i).Item("File")
snd_in(i) = data(i).Item("Fade_In")
snd_out(i) = data(i).Item("Fade_Out")
snd_vol(i) = safeNum(data(i).Item("Vol."))
snd_hold(i) = data(i).Item("Hold")
snd_af(i) = If(data(i).Item("AF") = "", False, True)
player_list(i).URL = snd_file(i)
snd_current(i) = snd_startvol(i)
If snd_startvol(i) <> snd_vol(i) Then 'snd_startvol(i) and snd_vol(i) were the same in all my tests, so this should not run.
snd_next(i) = snd_vol(i)
Dim num_steps_up = snd_in(i) * snd_speed
Dim num_steps_down = snd_out(i) * snd_speed
Dim diff = snd_vol(i) - snd_startvol(i)
Dim small_step As Single
If diff > 0 Then
small_step = diff / num_steps_up
ElseIf diff < 0 Then
small_step = diff / num_steps_down
End If
snd_steps(i) = small_step
timer_snd_fade.Tag = 0
timer_snd_fade.Enabled = True
End If
timer_snd_master.Tag = 0 'resets the tag to 0
timer_snd_master.Enabled = True 'Starts timer
End If
Next
End Sub
Private Sub timer_snd_master_Tick(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles timer_snd_master.Tick
If sender.Tag = snd_delay(0) Then
Player1.Ctlcontrols.play() 'This is the only play command in the program
Debug.Print("tag " & sender.Tag) 'These print after the delay
Debug.Print("delay " & snd_delay(0))
End If
sender.Tag += 1
End Sub

Answer 1

Inspect the:
AxWindowsMediaPlayer player1 = ...; // get the player from UI
IWMPSettings sett = player.settings;
sett.autoStart == ??
see the docs.
Probably it is set to true, as it's default value. Simply set it to false it the player will not play until Ctlcontrols.play() is invoked.