Well, the XMP GUI (like the CP GUI) gives no indications of playback statusand unlike the Trout/foobar GUIs cannot be tweaked with user formatting to do so;but XMP responds to the WA APIs, so that is what started me on the SendMessage path ...Controlling CP & MPlayer has not been the issue except that it is / has been impossibleto determine with a script whether either is playing or was actually p