Can I Load A Sound or Music Into My Win32 Application ?

Good day !

I wish to have background music playing while my Win32 application is running. Can it be done using VC++ ?

Then I wish under centrain condition a sound will be played also ?
How can it be done, again ?

For your info, I am totally a newbie in Win programming and I need to pass up my project within very short time. So i need to tricks or easier ways :)

Thanks a lot !:)

Have a look at the functions PlaySound and sndPlaySound in yout MSDN.

...or use Borland! Both CBuilder and Delphi have visual component(s) for this purpose (TMediaPlayer).

Simply drag&drop it on your form, and you're done!

Or use Directx, which has functions allowing you to play mp3-s as well.

Mp3's in DirectX? Microsoft is against Mp3's! That's why they want you to use WMA or any other format. Mp3's aren't supported nativly by DirectX.

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"Microsoft is against Mp3's! "

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Just take a look at "Age of the Kings" CD. Full of MP3-s. And who made this game, guess? ;)

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Microsoft® DirectShow® is an architecture for streaming media on the Microsoft Windows® platform. DirectShow provides for high-quality capture and playback of multimedia streams. It supports a wide variety of formats, including Advanced Streaming Format (ASF), Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG), Audio-Video Interleaved (AVI), MPEG Audio Layer-3 (MP3), and WAV files.

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Click here to check out yourself.

Okay, I guess you're right. Someone told me that MP3's wasn't supported by DirectShow.

> Someone told me that MP3's wasn't supported by DirectShow.

http://www.sunlightd.com/Windows/DirectX/MP3.html

Thanks! That link led me to a page about Fourier transform! That's what I have been looking for a really long time now!

It's sunlight's site, it's a pitty he left us...
He's got a DirectX tutorial there, and lots of good stuff.