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    • Playback Music/Audio Files in VB and VB.NET (#2 – 3rd Party Libraries) – #2 of 3

    Saturday, May 17th, 2008

          Well its been somewhat a long time coming but I finally got the time to add #2 of the ways to play music articles using Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET 2002/2003 and Visual Basic 2005/2008. This post is basically to describe two different librarys. The first is Bass.Dll and the second [...]

    Playback Music/Audio Files in VB and VB.NET (#1 – My Pre-Made Libraries) – #1 of 3

    Monday, November 19th, 2007

        Intro...    There are no doubt many requests at various messageboards and sites with VBers wanting to play MP3, Wave, ect... based files, sound effects and visualizations. This article is simply to help 'lead' you in the right direction to accomplish this. I do have a simple article on this site on how to do very basic [...]

    How you can Play Wave Files Easily with VB 5.0/6.0!

    Saturday, September 15th, 2007

    '   Playing Wave files with Visual Basic Classic (5.0/6.0 versions) is quite easy using the Windows APIs. The API you would be interested in using to play wav files is the: PlaySound - API Call. Below is the Constants and Function which should be put in a Module or Declaration section of your project... [...]

    Easily Play/Pause/Resume/Stop MP3/Wav/WMA files

    Thursday, August 30th, 2007

      There are many paths you can take. 3rd Party librarys, Windows Media Player component, Windows API and more. The answer i'm going to give is using the already established Windows APIs.   The APIs are connected to the Windows Multi-Media System. Or winmm.dll. This multi-media system is installed on every modern Windows OS. So, [...]