Play Mp3 in .net

[timdehaen]

Hello,

I'm a student IT at university I Want to build an mp3 player in vb.net.
In java there is a class you can import to play mp3 files. In vb.net I'ven't find such a thing so I've no idea who to make an mp3 file play.
Is there anybody who can give me directions???
Who can I make such a programm. On the net i've found some programs but they all use an dll file and I want to write my own methods to play mp3 files.
I've also found something about blade but i'ven't found a dll that can be imported as reference in vb.net.

Please help

ps Excuse me for my bad english. It's just base english i picked up at school.

[Grunt]

I have been struggling to do the same thing... I think you have to use an external api. I found a free one; however, it lacks support for vb.net. Tell me what you dig up..................

[timdehaen]

i've found a dll file ...
rspmp3player1.dll
it can be used to play mp3 files ...
I'll set the prog online ....
http://users.pandora.be/tim.dehaen/prog/
Download the zipfile ...
But i'm dutch speaking so my variables and some words on my programm are in dutch but i think you can do something with the sourcecode ...

you can do also a google search
http://www.google.be/search?hl=nl&q=...G=Zoeken&meta=

You can find there some sites with information but ... i"m still learning vb.net and it's more for pro ... there's a topic on this forum that deals with .net and blade but i couldn't understand who i've to import the blakeEnc.dll file ...

[kleinma]

http://www.a1vbcode.com/code.asp?typ...edia&intPage=3

there is source code on this site that plays MP3s

[timdehaen]

already been there ...

Doesn"t satify my needs ...

There's no open source code concerning the playing of the mp3 file ...
it's also incapculated in an dll ...

I really want to know what's behind that dll file ...

Who does it encodes the mp3 file ...

If i'm capable of understanding that, i may be capable of implementing it in a programm ...

And me mp3player is also with a dll file ... the first version was written with the dll file from the mp3player2 that can be found on that page!

[kleinma]

well there is NO direct way to just play a sound file (this is coming in .net 2005 though)

here is code from allapi.net, basically for now, you need to use API to do it, or a 3d party dll/code

Private Const SND_APPLICATION = &H80         '  look for application specific association
Private Const SND_ALIAS = &H10000     '  name is a WIN.INI [sounds] entry
Private Const SND_ALIAS_ID = &H110000    '  name is a WIN.INI [sounds] entry identifier
Private Const SND_ASYNC = &H1         '  play asynchronously
Private Const SND_FILENAME = &H20000     '  name is a file name
Private Const SND_LOOP = &H8         '  loop the sound until next sndPlaySound
Private Const SND_MEMORY = &H4         '  lpszSoundName points to a memory file
Private Const SND_NODEFAULT = &H2         '  silence not default, if sound not found
Private Const SND_NOSTOP = &H10        '  don't stop any currently playing sound
Private Const SND_NOWAIT = &H2000      '  don't wait if the driver is busy
Private Const SND_PURGE = &H40               '  purge non-static events for task
Private Const SND_RESOURCE = &H40004     '  name is a resource name or atom
Private Const SND_SYNC = &H0         '  play synchronously (default)
Private Declare Function PlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "PlaySoundA" (ByVal lpszName As String, ByVal hModule As Long, ByVal dwFlags As Long) As Long
Private Sub Form_Load()
    'KPD-Team 2000
    'URL: http://www.allapi.net/
    'E-Mail: [email protected]
    PlaySound "C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA\TADA.WAV", ByVal 0&, SND_FILENAME Or SND_ASYNC
End Sub

im pretty sure this works with MP3 as well...

[private1337]

Is it possible to play 3 mp3 in 1 player using DirectSound ?

[kleinma]

yeah I am pretty sure you can, although it would require your project to reference directx. Most people have directx already because so many apps require it though

[Grunt]

i found an audio library called bass that I hope to use. If you scroll down they have a vb.net port, and some sample code....

http://www.un4seen.com/

[private1337]

so anyone using directx 9 for the reference? I have download it but doesn't know whehther it install correctly because the reference i saw there is directx8. Is it directx9 reference in a different name?

[timdehaen]

Who can I use directx to play mp3 files?

that Api that kleinma suggested isn't usefull for mp3 files