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Control of Playlists

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[The feature associated with this page, Windows Media Player SDK, is a legacy feature. It has been superseded by MediaPlayer. MediaPlayer has been optimized for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft strongly recommends that new code use MediaPlayer instead of Windows Media Player SDK, when possible. Microsoft suggests that existing code that uses the legacy APIs be rewritten to use the new APIs if possible.]

Control of playlists is maintained by the client. Playlists are parsed by Windows Media Player, which takes actions based upon the elements of the playlist. The client has control of the streaming experience.

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