Advanced Stream Redirector

Introduction

Advanced Stream Redirector (ASX) files are based on the Extensible Markup Language (XML) syntax, and are made up of various elements with their associated tags and attributes. Each element in an ASX file defines a particular setting or action to the Microsoft Windows Media Player control. Some elements must be located in a specific position in the file relative to other elements. Some elements have required tags and attributes that must be defined in the ASX file.

Important: Element names and attributes are not case-sensitive.

Media Player playlists

ASX may be used to print playlist. It was a huge surprise to me that I couldn't just print a playlist in Windows Vista. To do so, one must either install alternative "music management programs" (and risk pollution or worse) or export Media Player playlists to *.asx format and then transform the contents with XSLT.

Here is a how to:

(1) Export with: Menu File-> Save current playlist

(2) Write the xsl.