Play an MP3 from file name

Question

Can someone provide a complete and reusable example of how to play an mp3 file in a XAML-less application, starting with only a Platform::String^ for the file name?

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Software Engineer, Brainium Studios LLC

Answer 1

Hello,

How about the XAudio sample code?
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Basic-Audio-Sample-9a5bb0b7

Best regards,
Jesse

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Jesse Jiang [MSFT]
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Answer 2

That example deals with uncompressed wave files specifically. It doesn't support any sort of decoding.

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Software Engineer, Brainium Studios LLC

Answer 3

Hello Brent,

I agree with Jessie. I think that XAudio2 should work for you. You can also use the MediaEngine. I've linked to a couple of samples below that should hopefully should help. I believe this XAudio2 sample decompressed the audio files from mp3 but I haven't looked that closely at it. The ME sample is a bit complex but hopefully you can get what you need out of it.

XAudio2 audio stream effect sample
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/XAudio2-Stream-Effect-3f95c8f2

Media engine native C++ playback sample
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Media-Engine-Playback-ce1c82f0

I hope this helps,

James

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Windows Media SDK Technologies - Microsoft Developer Services - http://blogs.msdn.com/mediasdkstuff/