Playing sounds in C#

Its fairly easy to play sounds in C#. .NET 2.0 comes with two main classes to assist you with this. SystemSounds, SoundPlayer and SystemSound (which is a abstract base class). The SystemSounds class is very simple to use. It has the predefined system sounds in it. For example, if you wanna play an asterisk sound on the click of a button, then simple add the statement,

System.Media.SystemSounds.Asterisk.Play();  //This will spawn a new thread that will play the sound

This class has Asterisk, Beep, Exclamation, Hand and Question in it. How ever if you wanna play some other wav files, then you need to use the SoundPlayer class. To use this, you need to create an object of this class and provide the path of the sound file as string or the sound itself as stream, then load the file and play it. Isn’t it simple ??

Here is a sample,

System.Media.SoundPlayer aSoundPlayer = new System.Media.SoundPlayer(@"C:\Documents and Settings\codelog\My Documents\LASER.WAV");  //Creates a sound player with the mentioned file. You can even load a stream in to this class

aSoundPlayer.Play();  //Plays the sound in a new thread

This is how I play sounds in C#. If you know some other way comment on it.

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4 comments

  1. Miguel
    March 30, 2009 at 3:32 am

    hey .. muchisimas gracias… fue de mucha ayuda .. estoy trabajando en un juego.. como proyecto de clase… es un juego de aviones “guerra en el cielo”…

    verdad q por medio de una clase, puedo declarar una variable string. mandando una bandera, puedo reproducir como multiples sonidos… no se si me doy a entender

    cualquier ayuda, ahi esta mi correo

  2. Miguel
    March 30, 2009 at 3:38 am

    hey sorry…. until I read it again I found out you speak english … hehe.. thank you dude… it’s very helpful.. ’cause we are wrorking on a class project..named “sky war”… about planes and stuff…

    well… there’s my e-mail if you know somehthing of images manipulation, with timers and stuff like that

    thanks dude

  3. Khubajsn
    June 12, 2009 at 11:06 pm

    At least I found code for playing sounds in C# after one hour which is WORKING!! Thanks a lot :) )

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