Playing a wave or mp3 file in my program

[Mavrock]

I am making a little program that recieves ascii commands from the serial port. I want to make the program play an audio file when it recieves a specific string. Does anyone know how to just play an audio file in the background without pulling up windows media player? Thank you very much. Mavrock

[Mazdak]

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[anju]

u can try with "mciSendString" API function ... anju

[mynab]

This should do: HWND hWnd = MCIWndCreate(GetSafeHwnd(), AfxGetInstanceHandle(), MCIWNDF_NOMENU | MCIWNDF_NOPLAYBAR | MCIWNDF_NOERRORDLG | MCIWNDF_NOOPEN, szFilename); MCIWndPlay(hWnd); To stop playing: MCIWndStop(hWnd); MCIWndDestroy(hWnd);