How can I find out what mmcontrol is doing?

I've been using mmcontrol 6.0 in VB to play audio files with. What I need to know from it is what it's status is...i.e. Playing, Stopped, Paused, Etc...

Does anyone know how I could find out...

Furthermore if there is anyone who knows how to use DirectX to play sounds in VB please let me know...

Cheers...

For Direct Sound look at http://members.dencity.com/dx4vb/
for a tutorial.

The multimedia control has a Mode property which tells you the current status.

Sorry Frans the link doesn't appear to work...do you have a different one?

I just tested the link, and it works fine for me.