Music-player toolbar

Does someone know a small player that could be controlled and integrated in a toolbar (play/pause/next/prev and, if possible, position and volume)?

I don't like switching between DO and e.g. WMP windows when "cruising" through new audio-files!

J.River Media Center can do that. It is a very powerful program, but not free.
Look here:
http://www.jrmediacenter.com/

Command line options are here:
http://wiki.jrmediacenter.com/index.php/The_Command_Line

Most good music players can be controlled via either the command-line or VBScript so you can probably take your pick.

Foobar2000 command line

Winamp has a couple of plugins which let you drive it from the command line, as well as my own plugin which adds a COM interface to it that you can call from VBScript.

Windows Media Player has a command line but doesn't let you do much with it; however it does have a rich COM interface for VBScript to use.

Thanks for all the info.

Best would be a simple "player.exe" - no installation (to execute from USB), no or small gui.

MediaCenter is too big (no need of video-support), Winamp also. I will have a look at Foobar.

I use some plugin for Winamp (Winamp shortcutter plugin or something) to map the volume to alt+mousewheel and next/previous song to ctrl+alt+mousewheel. Works like a dream! I can skip songs without even interupting what I'm currently doing, whatever it is. It don't offer full integration of course, but skip song and volume are what I use the most at least.