playing mp3 files with media player control

[Stuart McGraw]

Anybody use the Windows Media Player
Control in Access for playing mp3 files?
I am trying to play an mp3 file using the
Windows Media Player Control on a form.
I set the fie name to play in code in the
form's onLoad event. If I set it to a .wav
file the media control is enabled and clicking
the play button plays the file. If I change the
filename to a .mp3 file, the control is disabled.
Is there something else I need to do in addition
to changing the filename?

 

[Stuart McGraw]

Hmm, no replies.... does no one use the widows media player
control on access forms for playing mp3 files? even a "yes it
works" answer would help me.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

To be honest, I was never able to get it working, so I switched to using the
Media Control Interface (MCI) API calls. Details at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/multimed/htm/_win32_mci.asp

 

[Larry Daugherty]

I guess no one here uses media player on their forms. I've added
microsoft.public.access.activexcontrol so that someone there might jump in.

FWIW, RTF gets a few frowns.

HTH

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

I would actually just place a button on the form, and launch the .mp3 file.

Trying to make the player run "inside" the form is not very workable.

So, to launch the mp3 file, you can use:


Application.FollowHyperLink "c:\my music\abc.mp3"

Or, if you have a field on the form with the path name, you go:

Application.FollowHyperLink me!SongName

The above will work, and even work for different versions of mp3 players,
even if you do not use the media player...

 

[Stuart McGraw]

Thank you all, for the info.
Reason I don't just launch an app to play an mp3 is that
I actually want to play only a part of a file (e.g play 8.5
seconds starting at 80 seconds into the file). I thought
the media player control had a property that would allow
this but I guess it's moot, since no one has said that they
ever got it to play mp3 files. I guess I will try to figure
out how to use MCI.