Playing MP3 Sounds

[Mota]

Hi;
It seems that the PlaySound API doesnt support MP3 format files.Is there a
way to play mp3 sound files in Access XP thru code,other than using
Microsoft Agent?
Thank you for ur help.

 

[James]

Could you not tell it to open something like winamp or
windows media player which will open the .mp3 files?

HTH

James

 

[Mota]

The best 3rd party is MsAgent for me,Rather than WinAmp or something like
it.But when u need to repeatedly play sounds,such as reading more than 1000
names on a contiuous form and compare them with a table printed on a
paper,its kinda boring to have another program opened,and wait for it,in
each record to activate and play that sound.Its more preffered to have them
played directly from windows,such as a WAV file.Do u think there is a way or
an API to do this?
Thank you for ur attention.

 

[James]

I dont know unfortunatly.

Maybe one of teh MVP will be able to help you further.

Sorry

James

 

[Ron Weiner]

Why not embed the Windows Media Player in a form of your Access App. I did
this a few years ago in an Accrss 97 app to display AVI and MPG's. Had up
to 9 small video clips playing on the screen at the same time. Don't see
any reason that it would not work in A2K or XP with MP3's.

Ron W