Need a dll for programatically play mp3 files

2004-01-03 19:10:02

hi everybody

i need a dll (preferred in .NET) to programatically play mp3 files from a .NET program. Documentation would be necessary.

Any help would be appreciated. 

thanks, kozi

Need a dll for programatically play mp3 files

Reply #1 – 2004-01-03 19:17:14

The easiest method would probably be to just use DirectShow or ACM.

If you really want a seperate library try mpglib, which is also used in fb2k (included in latest lame source and fb2k SDK), or MAD.

Need a dll for programatically play mp3 files

Reply #2 – 2004-01-05 14:39:50

thank you for the reply !

could you give some more hints about DirectShow ? I never worked with DirectX libraries, so a link, a documentation, an example related to mp3 playing with that would be a great help for me.

Thanks, kozi

Need a dll for programatically play mp3 files

Reply #3 – 2004-01-09 19:00:53

If you have a MCI driver installed for Windows (Win2K and above have it already I suppose, due to WMP), then the simplest way is to use the mcixecute API.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default...._mciexecute.asp

you may need to study the API for complete usage. eg: mciexecue("play c:\mysong.mp3") will play it and blah blah blah

use VC or VB dot net to write a Win32 DLL. I have always used VC++ 6.0, just export methods with the filename as an input parameter and add the mciexecute call within it.

Need a dll for programatically play mp3 files

Reply #4 – 2004-01-09 19:06:26

You could use xAudio or BASS, they are not .NET code but I suggest you take a peek.