Playing a sound file

Playing a sound file

• Dean S.

  I am using the my.computer.audio.play function to play an alert.

  The alert is the result of checking a database for new entries every 10 seconds. If there is a new entry that the software has not seen yet, it uses the VBPower Tools Notification Window to pop-up a message.

  What I want this to do is play the audio at that same time.

  My problem is, I am unable to get audio to play inside of a timer's tick event handler.

  Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get audio to kick off inside that routine

  Thanks!

  Chris

  
  

• MrZkitten

  SoundPlayer is a regular class, and has to be initialized:
  
  

  Dim s As New System.Media.SoundPlayer(filename) s.Load() s.Play()

  
  
  

• jagadisha

  yeah sorry about that, i have recently solved it, but thank you very much if you hadn't had given the small snippet of code i would be still wondering about it.
  Thanks!
  
  Andrew
  
  

• pradjini

  If you have Visual Studio 2005, you don't need to download anything.
  
  What error message do you get Keep in mind that SoundPlayer only supports wav files, no mp3...
  
  

• Andreas Masur

  VB.NET 2005

  Top play an audio file. Extremely simple using the new My functionality.

  My.Computer.Audio.Play("c:\windows\media\chime.wav")

  My.Computer.Audio.Stop()

  To stop the audio when the form visibility changes to hidden then something like this should work.

  [code language="vb"]

  Private Sub Form1_VisibleChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.VisibleChanged

  If Me.Visible = False Then

  My.Computer.Audio.Stop()

  End If

  End Sub

  [/code]

  For course if your using another approach to playing the audio (using the

  System.Media.SoundPlayer) you can put in the stop method line in place of the my.computer.audio.stop method.
  

  
  

• harolds

  Sorry to be a annoying,
  But do you know how i can stop the sound from playing when i make the form visible = false
  i haven't been able to work that part out yet!
  
  
  
  

• zgueney

  I'm not able to find a reference to this myself, but this is a good question.  How do you create a system event sound in windows and then invoke it   What's more efficient for playing a wav with your application...invoking a system event sound or just doing the my.computer.audio.play

  Thanks

  Ted Wagner
  http://www.trwagner.org
  http://www.hanggup.com

  
  

• AngryRichard

  i have followed the link but there are no mention of anything to download or anything like that. I have tried some of the coding found of the page, for example
  
  media.soundplayer
  
  but it always returns an error message
  
  

• invc

  Ted Wagner wrote:

  I'm not able to find a reference to this myself, but this is a good question.  How do you create a system event sound in windows and then invoke it   What's more efficient for playing a wav with your application...invoking a system event sound or just doing the my.computer.audio.play Thanks Ted Wagner http://www.trwagner.org http://www.hanggup.com

   

  Think I found it:

   

  My.Computer.Audio.PlaySystemSound()

  Ted Wagner
  http://www.trwagner.org
  http://www.hanggup.com

   

  
  

• Tommy Williams - MSFT

  Ok i am going to probably sound really thick here,
  say i have a wav file in my documents
  
  what do i place in the brackets between s.load() and s.play()
  
  Sorry i am completely new to this level of coding!
  
  

• *George*

  What about System.Media.SystemSounds.Beep.Play();
  
  or just System.Media.SystemSounds.Beep() in VB

  
  

• KrazyMGA

  There is a SoundPlayer class in v2.0 of the framework:
  
  http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=50999
  
  

• nuAnonymous

  This is the error message i get up when i try
  
  media.soundplayer
  
  i may be typing something wrong i don't any help would be good!
  
  
  Error 1 'SoundPlayer' is a type in 'Media' and cannot be used as an expression
  
  
  

• dicksters

  Nothing, that's just what I do when I call a method. C# enforces you to do that, in VB you can just write s.Load and s.Play
  
  
• Playing a sound file