MP3's - Playing through VB

[vermithrax]

With the ever-growing technology of audio compression and multimedia, I find myself considering the MP3 file format for playing audio throughout an application to be more appealing than using wav file format.

My question is this:

Playing a *.wav is simple (now that I know how).

How would I go about making the following happen:

private sub FormLoad()
PLAY ambient (wav file format) music
LOOP ambient music until next event
end sub

private sub command1_click()
PAUSE ambient music
PLAY MP3
STOP MP3
RESUME ambient music
end sub

private sub FormUnload()
STOP any music (mp3 or wav)
end sub

[end example]

On another note, how can I mute the default "click" sound that's played anytime I press a command button?

If you know of any online resources I could peruse, please, suggest them to me. I'd rather find the answers on my own before coming to the forum and asking.

Thanks in advance,

[Rh0ads]

i'm pretty sure (but not completley sure) that you can play an MP3 file using the function used to play a WAV. And what is the default "clicking" sound? The one that is in IE?

Download the file attached which contains all the code you need to create an Mp3 Player.

[Lord Orwell]

I only wish it was that easy. I attempted to change my system sounds to .mp3s. Didn't work.