Help. Media players

[sebcity]

I need to know how a media player such as windows media player or iTunes points to the music stored on your hard drive. In other words the songs are kept in, say, your my music folder. iTunes can play them without having to move or store them in a seperate folder (i know you can move them to one,but it is not necessary). I'm sure WMP does the same. Do they use a pointer or some sort of searching algorithm to find them?
Basically I need to know how the player knows where the songs are?
Thanks

 

[dragon2309]

you can try here -

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player

I know it stores some of the library information in there, other than that, it may be registry based or may have *.inf files placed all over the system....

You really need a media palyer development team here to tell you that kind of stuff

dragon