media Element

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06/20/2023

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The media element specifies one of the media items in a playlist.

<media
    src = "URL"
    cid = "WPL_GUID"
    tid = "WPL_GUID"
>
</media>

Attributes

Term	Description
src (required)	The URL of a media item.
cid	The content ID that is unique to this media item.
tid	The tracking ID that can be used to track the File System Object for this media item.

Parent/Child Elements

Hierarchy	Elements
Parent	seq
Child	None

Remarks

The cid attribute (the content ID) is populated by the Windows Media Player as a way to uniquely identify a piece of media content even if its metadata attributes have been changed. This allows the sharing of playlists across computers, because the content can be identified on another computer, and the path to it can be "auto-repaired" by the Windows Media Playlist. The tid attribute (the tracking ID) uses the Windows file system to auto-repair the path to the media if the name or location of the file is changed.

Examples

<media
    src = "laure.wma"
    cid = "ABCDEFGH-abcd-1234-WXYZ-ABCDEF000000"
    tid = "12345678-1234-abcd-ABCD-123456abcDEF"
>
</media>

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Version	Windows Media Player 9 Series or later.