Music Playing

[manavo11]

Is there a general, non 3rd party control way to play all kinds of music files? I have seen code that plays wav files (PlaySound API), other code for MP3s (DirectShow)... Is there any general way to play them all or do I need the separate code for each one?

Thanks

[Black__Knight]

Hi,

I think windows media player covers most of them like wav and mp3..not sure about real audio. API function sndplay can't handle mp3 format as far as I know.

Have a good one!
BK

[dglienna]

I think you mean DirectPlay, which plays these:

'the loader will correctly parse the following file formats:
'.WAV; .MID; .SEG; .RMI
'IT WONT LOAD MP3 files, if you require MP3 audio then look
'at the DirectShow8 tutorials.

[manavo11]

No, I mean DirectShow, some code I found from Jacob...

[dglienna]

I'm pretty sure this is DirectPlay. I use it to play MIDI's but it plays the ones that I listed. It's in the code, though.

[manavo11]

So that will work for wav files as well?

[dglienna]

Yes. the listed types were .WAV; .MID; .SEG; .RMI

[TheVader]

How about mciSendString? I know it plays all common music formats. Does it come with Media Player or so?

[Jacob Roman]

I think you mean DirectPlay, which plays these:

DirectPlay is for networking, like the Winsock control. DirectSound covers wavs. DirectMusic covers midis. And DirectShow covers mp3s, mpegs, avis, and other media formats.

[Harsh Gupta]

try the windows media player control in the components section.......i have used it and i think it can play many types of formats.

[Jacob Roman]

DirectX gives you more control over the media though. You can even put a movie as a texture on a polygon, and control how fast/slow the movie is playing, etc.

My DirectShow engine gives you nearly total control over the mp3s, which allows you to control the position, volume, balance, speed, play, stop, pause, etc.