Playing music in C# application

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I have created a program that plays a song when you click a button. The Program works great.. Except the song is read from my hard drive. When I add the song as a resource on my project and change the path then I get an error.

I've been away from C# for a while since I started working at a web development company using PHP. So I need someone to just give me a quick catch up on what I'm doing wrong.

This is my working code:(Code reading song from hard drive)

C#

private void btnPlay_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            wmpPlay.URL = @"c:\song.mp3";
        }

This is the one that receives the error:

C#

private void btnPlay_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            wmpPlay.URL = @"../Resources/song.mp3";
        }

Thanks in advance,
Chris

Posted 1-Jun-13 0:25am

Christopher Smit

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Shambhoo kumar · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-01T01:10:00

Solution 2

Paste your song inside your application bin/Debug folder

and write this code on play button click event

C#

wmpPlay.URL = Application.StartupPath + @"/song.mp3";

Thanks & regard
Sham

Posted 1-Jun-13 1:10am

Shambhoo kumar

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Christopher Smit 1-Jun-13 7:22am

Thank you.. :) I did that except I did not write the "Application.StartupPath +" part... :)

Thanks for your time,
Chris

Shambhoo kumar 3-Jun-13 7:22am

You must welcome dear Christopher Smit .

Garth J Lancaster · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-01T00:51:00

to get the resource you do something like this

System.Reflection.Assembly objAssembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
objStream = objAssembly.GetManifestResourceStream("My.Namespace.song.mp3");

Presumably song.mp3 has been added correctly and flagged as an Embedded Resource on compilation

Note the Namespace !!

From StackOverflow, I found this :-

C#

string[] myResources = objAssembly.GetManifestResourceNames();
foreach(string aresource in myResources) {
   Console.WriteLine(aresource);
}

to print the names of the resources

Ive seen a couple of suggestions where to go from there - either writing the resource from objStream to a temporary file and playing it from disk, or using ?'WaveOut' classes to play it directly (which is what I'd do)

'g'