Thread: Music

Eh?

There is [I presume] no difference between playing a 2 second, 20 second or 3-4 minute .WAV file.

Perhaps this article will explain what you need to do:
http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0698/sound/sound.aspx

This assumes you are using Windows. If you are using Linux/Unix to write your game, I can't help, and you'll need to explain this to us.

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Mats

And why do you think you can't use the PlaySound function in the first place - the above was just what I found when searching for "Play DirectSound" - if you are not using DirectSound bur prefer to use the multimedia functions, then I don't see a problem with that.

So, what is it you are after, a full example version of PlaySound?

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Mats

So, why don't you post a small piece of the code you are working on, with suitable questions on the bits you don't understand/can't get to work.

It looks to me like the PlaySound is really simple to use - something like:

Code:

#include <Windows.h>

int main()
{
     TCHAR name = "c://blah.wav";
     BOOL f;

     f = PlaySound(name, NULL, SND_FILENAME);
     if (!f) {
         printf("Error\n");
     }
     return 0;
}

I haven't tried that, and of course, the "name" has to be a valid wave-file of some sort.

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Mats

What compiler errors do you get?

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Mats

Code:

PlaySoundA("fanfare.wav", 0, SND_RESOURCE | SND_NODEFAULT);

Are you sure that the red code is correct?

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Mats

I thought "SND_FILENAME" would make more sense from the parameters you use - but I'm not sure at all.

Originally Posted by MSDN

Three flags in fdwSound (SND_ALIAS, SND_FILENAME, and SND_RESOURCE) determine whether the name is interpreted as an alias for a system event, a filename, or a resource identifier. If none of these flags are specified, PlaySound searches the registry or the WIN.INI file for an association with the specified sound name. If an association is found, the sound event is played. If no association is found in the registry, the name is interpreted as a filename.

I don't think "fanfare.wav" is a resource, but rather a filename.

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Mats

Originally Posted by MaGaIn

Please explain by posting code. I do not understand. Thanks Very Much

You mean, my example that I posted earlier isn't good enough? It does exactly what I said you should change, using SND_FILENAME as the documentation says. I'm sorry, I'm not going to write the same thing again. Of course, you WILL have to change [or copy a file to match] blah.wav. But I think you are capable of that.

But since I wanted to make sure I wasn't telling porkies, I produced this, that runs on my machine:

Code:

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	BOOL f;
	f = PlaySound("c:\\winnt\\media\\tada.wav", 0, SND_FILENAME);
	if (!f) 
		printf("Error\n");
	else
		printf("Done!\n");
	return 0;
}

Of course, I missed the note about the wav file fitting in memory, so if you want to play 4 minutes of 40 KHz samples, you are looking at needing 40MB or thereabouts. (40 KHz * 2 channels * 2 bytes per sampel * 240 seconds)

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Mats