How Do I Play Songs In C++

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I was trying to play songs in c++. I tried using the winmm lib and it worked fine. My goal now is to play multiple songs by creating some sort of song playlist and storing them in an array. I tried it but the playsound function keeps showing me errors. Can anyone advise me how i can do that?

**The error that i get is related to the text in the playsound function which shows
**LsongList is undefined**

C++

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <Windows.h>
#include <mmsystem.h>
using namespace std;

int main()

{

  string songlist[3];
  songlist[0] = "a.wav";
  songlist[1] = "b.wav";
  songlist[2] = "c.wav";
  
for(int i =0; i<3; i++)
{
PlaySound(TEXT(songlist[i]), NULL, SND_ASYNC | SND_NODEFAULT );	



}

system("pause");



}

Posted 16-Nov-14 12:42pm

Surajit Das

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nv3 16-Nov-14 19:10pm

The use of the TEXT macro is incorrect. Use string::c_str() instead. And if you are compiling with UNICODE option, you should use wstring instead of string.

Surajit Das 16-Nov-14 19:27pm

@nv3:- Thanks for your reply. I tried this as per your advise-PlaySound(string::c_str(songlist[i]), NULL, SND_ASYNC | SND_NODEFAULT );
But it still shows me error- a nonstatic member object must be relative to a specific object. Can you kindly advise me how i can resolve this error

nv3 17-Nov-14 3:29am

1. Use songlist[i]::c_str() as first argument.
2. You seem to be compiling with UNICODE option, so use wstring instead of string in the definition of songlist.

Surajit Das 17-Nov-14 4:39am

@nv3:- Thanks for your help. I shall definitely try the way you said.

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BacchusBeale · Answer 1 · 2014-11-16T16:01:00

Solution 1

I don't have speakers to test it now, but it compiles and runs without errors.

C++

void run()
{
	LPCWSTR songlist[3] = 
	{
		TEXT("C:\\sounds\\APPLAUSE.wav"),
		TEXT("C:\\sounds\\ARROW.wav"),
		TEXT("C:\\sounds\\BOMB.wav")
	};

	for(int i =0; i<3; i++)
	{
		PlaySound(songlist[i], NULL, SND_ASYNC | SND_NODEFAULT );	
	}

}


int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
	run();
	system("pause");
	return 0;
}

Posted 16-Nov-14 16:01pm

BacchusBeale

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Surajit Das 17-Nov-14 4:10am

@BacchusBeale:-Thanks for your help. I tried the corrections you suggested me. Though it compiles correctly but there is one problem. When i run the program, it doesn't play the first two songs which i added in the array. It plays the last song only. Is there a way to fix it?

Richard MacCutchan 17-Nov-14 4:41am

Do not use SND_ASYNC.

Surajit Das 17-Nov-14 7:58am

@Richard MacCutchan:- Thanks Richard that fixed my error.