Sound player in VB.NET Compiler Beta2 2005 Express Edition

Sound player in VB.NET Compiler Beta2 2005 Express Edition

• Seericssop

  Thanks! It worked. Now, do you know how to make the program play something  other than .wav files
  

• PSRibeiro

  Hi. I work with C#, not VB, but maybe you can 'translate' my answer.
  
  SoundPlayer is no longer in the toolbox and is not even in the Forms namespace any more - it has been moved to System.Media but is still called SoundPlayer.
  
  You have to manually add an instance of the SoundPlayer object to your code... in C#, you do it like this...
  
          System.Media.SoundPlayer sp = new System.Media.SoundPlayer();
  
  To associate it with a WAV file...
  
          sp.SoundLocation = "c:/windows/media/ding.wav";
  
  and then use sp.Play() to play it whenever.
  
  One other thing that you must do to prevent security errors... in Project/Properties/Security, tick off "Enable ClickOnce Security Settings" and leave "full trust application" selected.

  Hope this works for you in VB.

  
  

• ArunBandy

  The short answer is, you can't play anything other than WAVs with SoundPlayer. I think this is because any other sound format requires a decompression engine to be built in to the player.
  
  There are a great many freeware and shareware sound file converters on the Internet, but if you convert, say, an MP3 to a WAV, the file size will end up huge.
  
  You can probably find downloadable alternative player components for Visual Studio which can handle multiple file formats, but I haven't tried any - I've stuck to WAVs for my modest sound needs. Maybe somebody else who views this might suggest a good alternative, probably from GotDotNet or Sourceforge.
  
  Good luck!
  

• Bruce H

  It wont work for me, it keeps asking to Convert the Files using Conversion Wizard.

  Do i need somthing, or am i missing somthing

  
  
  

• mok

  No-one knows It was in the toolbox in Beta1. How can I get it in and use it
  
  

• BALA SINGAM

  Me again... shortly after I posted the previous response, one of my students told me about the VB player component available from the following link...
  
  http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx SampleGuid=7f2a3d37-7e32-42f3-9909-76573493501b
  
  Let me know if it works for you.
  

• Tom Michaels

  All Right Man! It works. It would be nice to have .mid support, but I have a beautiful audio converter, so it won't be a problem. Thanks a ton. I have been wondering about this for quite some time now.
  Thanks again,
  The Digital Pioneer
  

• SWhittet

  The player componant works very good
  
  
  
  
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