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Controls.playItem

The playItem method plays the specified media item.

Syntax

player.controls.playItem(theMediaItem)

Parameters

  theMediaItem

Media object to be played.

Return Values

This method does not return a value.

Remarks

The media item will be loaded and played automatically, regardless of the value of the Settings.autoStart property. To load an item without playing it automatically, assign a value to Player.URL, after which Controls.play can be called to start playing the item.

Note   playItem works only with items in currentPlaylist. Calling playItem with a reference to a saved media item is not supported.

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