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newbie SDK question

Forgive my ignorance, but I wasn't really sure where to start.
If all I want to do is play / enqueue a file in foobar, which function under which class would I call?
I realize I could just "execute" the file in Windows with foobar being the default audio player, but I'm hoping to do this more elegantly..  Can anyone help?

While I'm asking.. is there a simple way to use foobar to return file info (ie. bitrate, length, etc) for various audio file formats? I'm growing a bit weary using separate DLLs for each type of audio file format to support in my app. 
Thanks a bunch!
 

newbie SDK question

Reply #1 –
Adding a track to the active playlist:
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playlist_oper::get()->add_location("C:\\bla\\music.ext");

Playing a track on the active playlist:
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playlist_oper::get()->play_item(index);

Activating another playlist:
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playlist_switcher::get()->set_active_playlist(index);


There is currently no standard way to programmatically get information from foobar2000 to another process; there are some third party extensions that allow this to a certain degree (foo_remote for example).