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Mixing 2 audio chanels

Asked by: sifugreg

How would a novice VB 6 programmer go about creating a simple audio program that will play one channel for a pre-determined period of time, fade it's volume to about 25%, play channel B and when channel B is done, Channel A is returned to 100%?  I can get 2 MultiMedia Controls to play the two tracks simultaneously and I don't need any help with the file maniputlation, I just don't know how to go about changing the sound levels related to a specific MM Control.  Any ideas?

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2006-12-10 at 14:51:14ID22088605
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Answers

 

by: JohnBPricePosted on 2006-12-12 at 11:16:17ID: 18125067

Alas and alack, changing the volume is a pain, as the MM Control doesn't have a volume control (just mute).  

You could try to monkey with the wave files and write them yourself using something like waveOutWrite, which is probably not all that hard to do, but really hard to figure out what to do, or use software that gives you more control over DirectX filters.

 

by: JohnBPricePosted on 2006-12-12 at 11:20:26ID: 18125098

or use the Windows Media Player control, which DOES have volume control.

 

by: sifugregPosted on 2006-12-12 at 16:35:58ID: 18127260

Funny you would mention that.  I have been cruising all over the internet looking for an OCX that will give me that funcitonality.  Any suggestions?

 

by: sifugregPosted on 2006-12-12 at 16:46:30ID: 18127324

Windows Media Player Control??  ActiveX?  Didn't think about that.  Didn't even know that was in there.  I'll play with it. Thanks!

 

by: sifugregPosted on 2006-12-12 at 23:10:22ID: 18128736

Yep, it's going to work.  I've got about 50% of the project done this evening but I'm up agains another wall.  What the heck kind of varialbe is WMP2.currentMedia.duration (comes out to 60.08 seconds).  No mater what I run it through (INT, cSTR, etc. I can't get it to populate a text box.  I can stop the code and verify it's there but I can't seem to use the value.  

Here's the simplest form of the problem.  
Dim curLength as double
curLenght = WMP2.currentMedia.duration
PAUSE

Now, at the stop, I can hover my mouse over the WMP2.CurrentMedia.Duration and 60.083 shows but curLength pops up 0.  Now I've tried Double, Single, Long, String, and Variant )  The only thing I can do with it is debug.print int(WMP2.CurrentMedia.Duration) and the Immediate window will return 60 but if I logically try TExt3.text=str(int(wmp2.currentmedia.duration)) I get a big fat "0". What the heck am I missing??

 

by: JohnBPricePosted on 2006-12-13 at 05:16:54ID: 18130124

Works for me.  According to the doc, it's a double, however it does say "To retrieve the value of this property, read access to Media Library is required. For more information, see Media Library Access."

Note that your code, as posted, is wrong.

Dim curLength as double 'variable is curLength
curLenght = WMP2.currentMedia.duration 'variable is curLengHT

If that is the problem, put "option Explicit" at the top of your module and it will cause an error on such typos


Do you have the Windows Media Player SDK?  It's free and describes the interface.

 

by: sifugregPosted on 2006-12-13 at 08:48:00ID: 18132002

Oh, no that was just a fat-finger.  It's actually spelled correctly in the code.  No, I don't have the SDK.  I'll pull that down this evening if I get home early enough and I always use option explicit because it forces me to behave ;-)

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