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Play Sounds in a Visual Studio Application

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I'm making a program in Visual Studio 2015 (C#) and I want to add sound
effects to it. However, I have looked up countless tutorials but none of them
seem to work, and gave me tons of errors. If anyone can give me a code to play a
.wav file from resource files then I would be very grateful
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Artem Kulikov Catquatwa

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use this. you can also play multiple sounds together. M.kazem Akhgary
Aug 4 '15 at 16:29
WinForms? WPF?...something else? Idle_Mind Aug 4 '15 at 16:33
Yes it says .wav in the question :) Catquatwa Aug 4 '15 at 16:56
 ".wav" doesn't help. I was asking about the type of application you are
writing; not the format of the sound file... Idle_Mind Aug 4 '15 at 17:36
Sorry, that was a reply to a previous comment which has now been deleted
Catquatwa Aug 4 '15 at 18:16
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How to: Play Sounds in an Application

Add the following method code under the button1_Click event hander :

System.Media.SoundPlayer player =
new System.Media.SoundPlayer();
player.SoundLocation = @"C:\Users\Public\Music\Sample
up vote 0 Music\xxxx.wav";
down vote player.Load();
player.Play();
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16:11

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answer 16:59

tharif
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if you set a proper path 100% output is assured..please go through the
msdn reference..try to find the logic and dont run behind output alone :)
tharif Aug 4 '15 at 16:29
check edited code tharif Aug 4 '15 at 16:59
Finally Worked :) Thanks Catquatwa Aug 5 '15 at 11:15
Very happy to hear for your efforts that paid off :) tharif Aug 5 '15 at
11:16
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If the file you want to play is wav files, try this.

var player = new System.Media.SoundPlayer("c:\\tes.wav");

player.Play();
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Handoko
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 For myself I wrote this SounceController, hope it help:

using System.Windows.Media; // add reference to

system.windows.presentation.
using System;
using System.IO;
public class SoundController
{
private bool isPlaying;
private MediaPlayer player;

public SoundController()
{
player = new MediaPlayer();
}
~SoundController()
{
player = null;
}

public void Play(string path)

up vote 0 {
down if (!File.Exists(path) || isPlaying)
return;
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isPlaying = true;

player.Open(new Uri(path));
player.Play();
}
public void Stop()
{
if (isPlaying)
{
isPlaying = false;
player.Stop();
}
}
}
answered Aug 4 '15 at 16:13

shareimprove this answer edited Aug 4 '15 at 16:21

Artem Kulikov
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Sorry, this has multiple errors for me :( Catquatwa Aug 4 '15 at 16:19
Did you add a reference to System.Windows.Presentation? Also you need
System and IO namespaces. I updated my answer. Artem Kulikov Aug 4 '15
at 16:21
@Catquatwa Please describe the errors you are having. It's going to be really
1 difficult to offer an error free code without even seeing a sample of your code,
or the problems you are encountering. Matias Cicero Aug 4 '15 at 16:22
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 I recommend you use PInvoke To play sound using winmm.dll

first of all import System.Runtime.InteropServices namespace in to your

project.

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

Then in your class you will have

[DllImport("winmm.dll")]
static extern Int32 mciSendString(string command, StringBuilder
buffer, int bufferSize, IntPtr hwndCallback);

public void Play(string path ,string name)

{
// Open
mciSendString($@"open {path} type waveaudio alias {name}",
null, 0, IntPtr.Zero);
up vote 0 // Play
mciSendString($@"play {name}", null, 0, IntPtr.Zero);
down }
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You can play the sound sending correct path of wave file with name. . given name
does not need to be the same name of wave file.for example:

Play(@"C:\soundeffect.wav", "soundEffect1");

Usually sound effects are played simultaneously. you can call this method several
times to play several files simultaneously.

Play(@"C:\soundeffect1.wav", "soundEffect1");
Play(@"C:\soundeffect2.wav", "soundEffect2");
Play(@"C:\soundeffect3.wav", "soundEffect3");
answered Aug 4 '15 at 16:26

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