//Hi, I am using this for playing mp3 and wav. I think I found the example
at Codeproject.com
//Use

Player play = new Player();
play.Open(filename);
play.Play(false); //true for repeat, false for once;
play.Close(); // to stop

  //To use the MCI Functions we have to import the winmm.dll.
   //Then you go to the MSDN look up a command and its party time.
   public class Player
   {
       [DllImport("winmm.dll")]
       private static extern long mciSendString(string strCommand,
StringBuilder strReturn, int iReturnLength, IntPtr hwndCallback);

       private string Pcommand;
       private bool isOpen;

       public Player()
       {
       }

       public void Close()
       {
           Pcommand = "close MediaFile";
           mciSendString(Pcommand, null, 0, IntPtr.Zero);
           isOpen = false;
       }

       public void Open(string sFileName)
       {
           Pcommand = "open \"" + sFileName + "\" type mpegvideo alias
MediaFile";
           mciSendString(Pcommand, null, 0, IntPtr.Zero);
           isOpen = true;
       }

       public void Play(bool loop)
       {
           if (isOpen)
           {
               Pcommand = "play MediaFile";
               if (loop)
                   Pcommand += " REPEAT";
               mciSendString(Pcommand, null, 0, IntPtr.Zero);
           }
       }
           // Returns the current status player: playing,paused,stopped
etc.
           public string Status()
           {
               int i = 128;
               System.Text.StringBuilder stringBuilder = new
System.Text.StringBuilder(i);
               mciSendString("status MediaFile mode", stringBuilder, 128,
IntPtr.Zero);
               return stringBuilder.ToString();
           }

   }
Hi,

Sorry for crosspost.

I need to play MP3 files from my .NET 2.0 SP1 C# WinForm app.

I tried referencing Microsoft.DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback; and creating Audio
class for playback. But I get the following error which is beyod my ability
to comprehend.

[
DLL
'C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC\Microsoft.DirectX\1.0.2902.0__31bf3856ad364e35\Microsoft.DirectX.dll'
is attempting managed execution inside OS Loader lock. Do not attempt to run
managed code inside a DllMain or image initialization function since doing
so can cause the application to hang.
]

How do I do this. Please help.

- Andrew