-= help with playing sound clips =-

Hey.. I amm trying to figure out how to make a command button play a sound clip. If someone could help me out, that would be great. Thanks!

Use the MCISENDSTRING API call - theres a help and example page on this at :

http://www.vbapi.com/ref/m/mcisendstring.html

Alright.. well.. I went to that page and set up my program as directed. Now when I click on my command buttons that should be playing the wav files, i get this error message:

MMSYSTEM263 This is not a registered MCI device.

Can anyone help me? or provide me with an alternate method?

Or you can use the PlaySound API function.

Code:

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Option Explicit

Private Declare Function PlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" _
Alias "PlaySoundA" (ByVal lpszName As String, ByVal _
hModule As Long, ByVal  dwFlags As Long) As Long

Private Const SND_SYNC = &H0 ' Play synchronously (default).
Private Const SND_ASYNC = &H1 ' Play asynchronously (see note below).
Private Const SND_NODEFAULT = &H2  ' Do not use default sound.
Private Const SND_MEMORY = &H4 ' lpszSoundName points to a memory file.
Private Const SND_LOOP = &H8 ' Loop the sound until next sndPlaySound.
Private Const SND_NOSTOP = &H10 ' Do not stop any currently playing sound.
Private Const SND_PURGE = &H40 ' purge non-static events for task

Private Sub Form_Load()
    'Play a WAV File
    PlaySound "C:\welcome.wav", 0&, SND_ASYNC Or SND_NODEFAULT

    'Play a WAV file with loop
    'PlaySound "C:\welcome.wav", 0&, SND_ANSYC Or SND_LOOP

    'Stop playing a WAV file
    'PlaySound "C:\welcome.wav", 0&, SND_PURGE
End Sub

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dont say "sequencer" in the line, say "wave" or "audio" I think that's yer problem...