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

  1. 09-21-2001 #1
    SonicWave
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    Wink 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 !
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    Have a look at the functions PlaySound and sndPlaySound in yout MSDN.
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    ...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.
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    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! "
    Just take a look at "Age of the Kings" CD. Full of MP3-s. And who made this game, guess?

    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.
    Click here to check out yourself.
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    Okay, I guess you're right. Someone told me that MP3's wasn't supported by DirectShow.
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    > Someone told me that MP3's wasn't supported by DirectShow.

    http://www.sunlightd.com/Windows/DirectX/MP3.html
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    Like a rat in a maze who says,
    "Watch me choose my own direction"
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    The path is winding your way?     - Rush
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    Thanks! That link led me to a page about Fourier transform! That's what I have been looking for a really long time now!
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    It's sunlight's site, it's a pitty he left us...
    He's got a DirectX tutorial there, and lots of good stuff.
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