Audio Streams
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Online stores can provide music as a stream from a music server. This is useful for providing samples, special promotional items, or to enable subscription users to enjoy music without having to download the content. It is common not to store the URL of the stream as part of the music catalog, but instead to resolve the URL just before playback based upon the track ID. To enable this, Windows Media Player calls IWMPContentPartner::GetStreamingURL and provides the streaming type (as a WMPStreamingType enumeration value) and the ID for the stream. The plug-in returns the URL for the stream through the pbstrURL parameter.
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