Playing Sounds with C#

I am working on a small app that will be playing a variety of audio files. I found that by importing winmm.dll, I can play a few wav files OK:

[DllImport("winmm.dll")]
public static extern long PlaySound(String lpszName, long hModule, long dwFlags);

However, with my limited amount of audio and/or media experience, I was wondering if there is something better. Maybe something with more functions available instead of just PlaySound()...just an overall better way to do it. I even only found this DllImport from a sample application somewhere else, so I can't even say I have something to compare with yet. ;P

If it matters, my plan is to really just play wav and mp3 files. Any help would be great.

Thanks

OR...

I am willing to utilize a TTS engine if the speaking sounds "human". I downloaded and ran a sample app from the Microsoft Speech SDK 5.1, but it literally sounds like an archaic PC talking to you. Are there other voices I am able to use? Is anyone familiar with implementing this?

Thanks

that's true,
but COOL is to use
DirectX capabilities.

check out DirectX SDK on MSDN.


Paresh

Has anyone personally tried installing the DirectX SDK 9.0? I am having the hardest time trying to find the Microsoft.DirectX.xxxxx assemblies. Nothing will compile, it says that the namespace DirectX does not exist in the class or namespace 'Microsoft'. So, I went ahead and installed the SDK again...no luck. I THEN decided to just install the SDK for C#...didn't work either. Any ideas? Am I completely missing something here?

I'm running VS .NET 2003 Final Beta w/ the .NET Framework 1.1 if it matters.

I definitly recommend using DirectX 9, there's a managed version of the runtime aviable at MSDN.

I used it for my mp3 player :D

That's what I've got...it isn't working though. :(

It's like it didn't register the components when it was installed or something, but I've reinstalled it 5 times now without any luck.

first you should always try out some samples and debug it before even making of your own. I think directX samples do work.

Paresh

Maybe I'm not being clear...NOTHING works. I can't even start the debuug process because it can't find any of the DirectX assemblies. They are displayed in the Assembly Cache when I go into the .NET Configuration though.

then you might be forgeting
the reference part.
go in your project settings.
and on solution add project reference and add that DirectX assembly.

Paresh

At least we're on the same wavelength here now. ;P I tried that, but the assembly is not able to be added, because I don't know where it is. I searched my entire system and couldn't find it, even though it shows up in my assembly cache. I was able to find a "Managed DirectX" directory with a lot of xml files in it, but after adding the directory (C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Managed DirectX\v4.09.00.0900) to my references path in the project, it still failed. I'm really at a loss here because I haven't ran into this sort of problem before. Usually I just add the reference and everything works. And by the way, I'm actually just using a sample right now. I haven't even thought about using my own app yet.

you could try other examples like using
winmm as a reference and it will give you a control. you can use that GUI control in your application




PAresh

Yeah, that's pretty much what I've decided to go with since I can't get the DirectX to work. Oh well, thanks for your time anyway, I appreciate it.

if you get it working then give party
lol

:D :D :D