Playing sounds from resources in VB2005

28 Jan 2006 9:14 PM

Terry Olsen

Using the following routine to play embedded wav files:

Private Sub PlaySound(ByVal Sound As Int32)
Select Case Sound
Case 1 : My.Computer.Audio.Play(My.Resources.Sounds.GoOnline,
AudioPlayMode.Background)
Case 2 : My.Computer.Audio.Play(My.Resources.Sounds.DoorOpen,
AudioPlayMode.Background)
Case 3 : My.Computer.Audio.Play(My.Resources.Sounds.DoorSlam,
AudioPlayMode.Background)
Case 4 : My.Computer.Audio.Play(My.Resources.Sounds.PrivateMsg,
AudioPlayMode.Background)
End Select
End Sub

Occasionally, instead of hearing the sound, i just hear white noise. This
doesn't happen if I play the sounds from files. Is there a better way to
play sound resources to eliminate the white noise anamoly?

17 Mar 2006 9:46 AM

Max

Hi

I had this problem too. Finally I solved this by performing this playing the
sound synchronosly in a backgroundworkerprocess.

Private WithEvents bkw As New System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker
    Public Sub PlaySound(ByVal Sound As System.IO.UnmanagedMemoryStream)
        If bkw.IsBusy Then Exit Sub
        bkw.RunWorkerAsync(Sound)

    End Sub

    Private Sub bkw_DoWork(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.ComponentModel.DoWorkEventArgs) Handles bkw.DoWork
        My.Computer.Audio.Play(e.Argument, AudioPlayMode.WaitToComplete)
    End Sub

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"Terry Olsen" wrote:

> Using the following routine to play embedded wav files:
>
> Private Sub PlaySound(ByVal Sound As Int32)
> Select Case Sound
>   Case 1 : My.Computer.Audio.Play(My.Resources.Sounds.GoOnline,
> AudioPlayMode.Background)
>   Case 2 : My.Computer.Audio.Play(My.Resources.Sounds.DoorOpen,
> AudioPlayMode.Background)
>   Case 3 : My.Computer.Audio.Play(My.Resources.Sounds.DoorSlam,
> AudioPlayMode.Background)
>   Case 4 : My.Computer.Audio.Play(My.Resources.Sounds.PrivateMsg,
> AudioPlayMode.Background)
> End Select
> End Sub
>
> Occasionally, instead of hearing the sound, i just hear white noise. This
> doesn't happen if I play the sounds from files. Is there a better way to
> play sound resources to eliminate the white noise anamoly?
>
>
>