Playing a audio file at Background

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Hello,

I am working on an application, where i need to run an Dialog based application and at

the same time i need to play an Audio file at the Background simultaneously. Any Idea,

have views on how to implement it in my application using vc++ or c++.

Thanks in Advance.

Posted 24-Oct-12 20:58pm

Kumar 09

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C#

{
  if(m_PlayMusic) // start the music...
    ::PlaySound(MusicFileSpec.c_str(),NULL,SND_ASYNC|SND_LOOP|SND_FILENAME);
  else // stop the music...
    ::PlaySound(NULL,NULL,SND_ASYNC|SND_FILENAME);
}

Posted 29-Oct-12 10:12am

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Solution 3

I'd use mmsystem and waveio but howabout..

C++

mciSendString("Open \"dingdong.wav\" alias audio") || mciSendString("play audio");

Posted 29-Oct-12 13:38pm

shiprat

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serhiy.semenyuk · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-24T22:02:00

Solution 1

one of the solutions is on the application start run worker thread worker thread[^]. and start playing there.
In such a deign you wont block the main dialogs. etc.

Posted 24-Oct-12 22:02pm

serhiy.semenyuk

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Kumar 09 31-Oct-12 5:32am

while running audio files simultaneously can i add the (jpg, gif)image to static text control using worker thread. if possible how to do, if not possible any other solution