Playing an .WAV file with (or without) Direct X

[Weegee]

Sup TH, I've been recently learning how to program in WINDOWS API and i've been having fun making menus, dialog boxes, etc. Recently, I've tried to put these skills to the test and make an application that opens up a song, plays it, then when it finishes, it allows the user to open up another song. Currently, I'm having troubles getting to the "playing" part as I cannot seem to find any documentation on how to do this >_>. I'm still a noob so don't expect me to be perfect in my coding ;D

Here's my main.cpp:

#include <Windows.h>
#include "resource.h"
 
const char g_szClassName[] = "myWindowClass";
char szFileName[MAX_PATH] = "";
// Step 4: the Window Procedure
LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hwnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    // Creating OPEN FILE Dialog
    OPENFILENAME ofn;
 
    ZeroMemory(&ofn, sizeof(ofn));
 
    ofn.lStructSize = sizeof(ofn);
    ofn.hwndOwner = hwnd;
    ofn.lpstrFilter = "WAVE Files (*.wav)\0*.wav\0All Files (*.*)\0*.*\0";
    ofn.lpstrFile = szFileName;
    ofn.nMaxFile = MAX_PATH;
    ofn.Flags = OFN_EXPLORER | OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST | OFN_HIDEREADONLY;
    ofn.lpstrDefExt = "wav";
 
    switch(msg)
    {
    case WM_CREATE:
        {
            HMENU hMenu, hSubMenu;
 
            hMenu = CreateMenu();
 
            hSubMenu = CreatePopupMenu();
            AppendMenu (hSubMenu, MF_STRING, ID_FILE_EXIT, "E&xit");
            AppendMenu(hMenu, MF_STRING | MF_POPUP, (UINT)hSubMenu, "&File");
 
            hSubMenu = CreatePopupMenu();
            AppendMenu(hSubMenu, MF_STRING, ID_LOAD_MUSIC, "&Load");
            AppendMenu(hMenu, MF_STRING | MF_POPUP, (UINT)hSubMenu, "&Music");
 
            hSubMenu = CreatePopupMenu();
            AppendMenu(hSubMenu, MF_STRING, ID_HELP_ABOUT, "&Help");
            AppendMenu(hMenu, MF_STRING | MF_POPUP, (UINT)hSubMenu, "&About");
 
            SetMenu(hwnd, hMenu);
        }
    case WM_COMMAND:
        switch(LOWORD(wParam))
        {
            case ID_FILE_EXIT:
                PostMessage(hwnd, WM_CLOSE, 0, 0);
                break;
            case ID_LOAD_MUSIC:
                if (GetOpenFileName(&ofn))
                {
                     //
                    // Want to play the song here
                   //
                }
                break;
        }
        case WM_LBUTTONDOWN:
            {
            }
 
        break;
        case WM_CLOSE:
            DestroyWindow(hwnd);
        break;
        case WM_DESTROY:
            PostQuitMessage(0);
        break;
        default:
            return DefWindowProc(hwnd, msg, wParam, lParam);
    }
    return 0;
}
 
int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
    LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{
    WNDCLASSEX wc;
    HWND hwnd;
    MSG Msg;
 
    //Step 1: Registering the Window Class
    wc.cbSize        = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX);
    wc.style        = 0;
    wc.lpfnWndProc  = WndProc;
    wc.cbClsExtra    = 0;
    wc.cbWndExtra    = 0;
    wc.hInstance    = hInstance;
    wc.hIcon        = LoadIcon(GetModuleHandle(NULL), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_MYICON));
    wc.hCursor      = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);
    wc.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)(COLOR_WINDOW+1);
    wc.lpszMenuName  = MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_MYMENU);
    wc.lpszClassName = g_szClassName;
    wc.hIconSm        = (HICON)LoadImage(GetModuleHandle(NULL), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_MYICON), IMAGE_ICON, 16, 16, 0);
 
    if(!RegisterClassEx(&wc))
    {
        MessageBox(NULL, "Window Registration Failed!", "Error!",
            MB_ICONEXCLAMATION | MB_OK);
        return 0;
    }
 
    // Step 2: Creating the Window
    hwnd = CreateWindowEx(
        WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,
        g_szClassName,
        "Happy Fun Times",
        WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW,
        CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, 240, 120,
        NULL, NULL, hInstance, NULL);
 
    if(hwnd == NULL)
    {
        MessageBox(NULL, "Window Creation Failed!", "Error!",
            MB_ICONEXCLAMATION | MB_OK);
        return 0;
    }
 
    ShowWindow(hwnd, nCmdShow);
    UpdateWindow(hwnd);
 
    // Step 3: The Message Loop
    while(GetMessage(&Msg, NULL, 0, 0) > 0)
    {
        TranslateMessage(&Msg);
        DispatchMessage(&Msg);
    }
    return Msg.wParam;
}

The code where I open the file has comments below saying "Want to play song here". It's closer to the top. Anywyas, hopefully I provided enough information. I know this is kind of vauge but I can't find any tutorials online so my explanation of what I want to do is to be expected to be pretty vaugue . +Rep inbound !

 

[Weegee]

BUMP :O

Are bumps even allowed on these forums anymore xD?

Does anyone know how to play the song with the location to the file that is obtained D:?

Edit: It seems playsound is useless when playing .wav files

Or any streamed audio in that case. Any suggestions TH.net? I Figured out how to find the correct path to the file but playsound doesn't do anything with it..

 

[s3rius]

I don't know much about the Win API to play any sound files, but this one works fine for me:

PlaySound(TEXT("filename.wav"), NULL, SND_FILENAME);

People say it might have problems playing larger wav files (1+ MB).

 

[Weegee]

I don't know much about the Win API to play any sound files, but this one works fine for me:

PlaySound(TEXT("filename.wav"), NULL, SND_FILENAME);

People say it might have problems playing larger wav files (1+ MB).

Thank you, the 1 mb rule wasn't being followed in my past attempts but when i used a smaller wave file it worked perfectly.

Now the question is, what are my options for playing a larger WAVE file? (+rep btw)

Edit: R.I.P. +Rep QQ

 

[s3rius]

Well, you'd be best off using an audio library. Working with sound files yourself can be quite nasty.
A quick googling turns up http://www.portaudio.com/ but there are a lot of free audio libraries. I don't know which ones are easy to use, or best to use. Haven't done much with sounds yet.

 

[tom_mai78101]

Try obtaining DirectMusic, from Microsoft. They still have it up there for April 2007.

You need to send a message containing a byte buffer read from a WAV file. I think it sort of works with MIDI. I have a few source codes I can dig up, but they use MFC (using C++) instead of pure WinAPI in C.