playing MP3s

[sigil]

I know that this has been discussed here before, but I searched the forums and didn't find any solutions that worked for my situation.

I've tried:

Run(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'c:\music\song.mp3', "", @SW_HIDE)

and

soundplay("c:\music\song.mp3",1)

and

soundplay("c:\music\song.mp3")
sleep(10000)

None of these produce errors; however, they don't produce any music, either.

Someone mentioned codecs. If that is the problem here, how do I check to see if I have the correct codec, and then acquire it if I don't have it?

[eynstyne]

I know that this has been discussed here before, but I searched the forums and didn't find any solutions that worked for my situation.

I've tried:

Run(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'c:\music\song.mp3', "", @SW_HIDE)

and

soundplay("c:\music\song.mp3",1)

and

soundplay("c:\music\song.mp3")
sleep(10000)

None of these produce errors; however, they don't produce any music, either.

Someone mentioned codecs. If that is the problem here, how do I check to see if I have the correct codec, and then acquire it if I don't have it?

Try This.. Always works for me...

dllcall("winmm.dll","int","mciSendStringA","str","open " & """e:\music\endofall - Self Inflicted Damage.mp3""" &  " type MPEGVideo alias MP3File","str","","int",65534,"hwnd",0)
dllcall("winmm.dll","int","mciSendStringA","str","play MP3File","str","","int",65534,"hwnd",0)

I made a small UDF within my programs to run this when any file is opened

[sigil]

Try This.. Always works for me...

dllcall("winmm.dll","int","mciSendStringA","str","open " & """e:\music\endofall - Self Inflicted Damage.mp3""" &  " type MPEGVideo alias MP3File","str","","int",65534,"hwnd",0)
dllcall("winmm.dll","int","mciSendStringA","str","play MP3File","str","","int",65534,"hwnd",0)

I made a small UDF within my programs to run this when any file is opened

I tried this, and got the same result: script starts, then terminates, no music played. I substituted the path for the song that I want to play, of course.

[eynstyne]

It might sound a little insulting, but do you have any multimedia devices? Is your volume turned up? Did a crash happen when you executed the DLL?

[sigil]

It might sound a little insulting, but do you have any multimedia devices? Is your volume turned up? Did a crash happen when you executed the DLL?

I'm not insulted. I have speakers; I usually play MP3s using Windows Media Player or other such applications . Volume's turned up to the max. No crash, the script just starts and ends--per SciTE, exit code is 0.

[rambo3889]

What Windows media player version are you using , since i upgraded to 11 beta i couldt play any music files on my pc with scripts although copying the script and song to my laptop which is using WMP 10 then it works

[eynstyne]

No drivers Missing? Winmm.dll isn't missing? (System directory), mmsystem isn't missing? (System directory), Multimedia Properties aren't greyed out? Windows Media Player needs a refresh install?

I'm just shooting out questions to maybe solve your problem

[sigil]

What Windows media player version are you using , since i upgraded to 11 beta i couldt play any music files on my pc with scripts although copying the script and song to my laptop which is using WMP 10 then it works

Version 8.00.00.4477.

As far as AutoIt, I'm using version 3.2.0.1.

[rambo3889]

Then im out of answers, could be your audio devices

[sigil]

No drivers Missing? Winmm.dll isn't missing? (System directory), mmsystem isn't missing? (System directory), Multimedia Properties aren't greyed out? Windows Media Player needs a refresh install?

I'm just shooting out questions to maybe solve your problem

Hmm...I have mmsystem.dll in c:\WINDOWS\system, but I don't have winmm.dll there. I have them both in c:\WINDOWS\system32.

[eynstyne]

Hmm...I have mmsystem.dll in c:\WINDOWS\system, but I don't have winmm.dll there. I have them both in c:\WINDOWS\system32.

What version windows are you using?

The winmm.dll must be there in order for audio devices to work.

[sigil]

What version windows are you using?

The winmm.dll must be there in order for audio devices to work.

XP. I copied winmm.dll from system32 to system, still nothing.

I've been trying to do a workaround by controlling Windows Media Player as a COM object, but I'm not very good with COM. I tried:

$player=objcreate("player")
$player.openplayer("c:\music\song.mp3")

but that didn't work, I just got this error:

Variable must be of type "Object".:

$player.openplayer("c:\music\song.mp3")

$player^ ERROR

What's the proper way to create a Windows Media Player object, and what's the method for playing an MP3?