How Do I Play An Audio File

How do I play an audio file (mp3, wav, etc.) within a Visual Studio Professional 2019 application? 

Here is one of the sample as your reference:

Step 1: Create a new windows application. Open Visual Studio > File > New > Project > Windows Application > Rename it to ‘WindowsPlayAudio’.

Step 2: Drag and drop a label, 2 button controls and an OpenFileDialog component to the form. Rename them as follows :
Label1 – lblFile
Button1 – btnOpen
Button2 – btnPlay
TextBox – txtFileNm
OpenFileDialog – Set the Filter to ‘WAV Files|*.wav’

Step 3: On the ‘btnOpen’ click, display File Open dialog box and accept the selected .wav file in the txtFileNm textbox

Step 4: Code the btnPlay click event to play the selected file asynchronously

Step 5: That’s it. Run the application (F5). Click the Select File button and choose a .wav file. Click on the play button to play the file asynchronously.

Code:

Imports System.Media 

If openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() = System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
            txtFileNm.Text = openFileDialog1.FileName
End If


Private Sub btnPlay_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
      If txtFileNm.Text <> String.Empty Then
            Dim wavPlayer As SoundPlayer = New SoundPlayer()
            wavPlayer.SoundLocation = txtFileNm.Text
AddHandler wavPlayer.LoadCompleted, AddressOf wavPlayer_LoadCompleted
            wavPlayer.LoadAsync()
      End If
End Sub


Private Sub wavPlayer_LoadCompleted(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As AsyncCompletedEventArgs)
      CType(sender, System.Media.SoundPlayer).Play()
End Sub

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Thanks.  But this only plays wav files.

Noted. Can i know what is the audio format that you're looking forward?

Any format.  mp3, wav, m4a

I've done it with Windows Media Player.  I was curious if other ways existed.

Thanks!  That's exactly what I need!