Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Playing Audio Files

My.Computer.Audio provides three methods for audio files reproduction. The first one is Play, which can play a .Wav file. The following is an example:

My.Computer.Audio.Play("C:\MySound.Wav", AudioPlayMode.WaitToComplete)

You need to pass at least the filename as the first argument; as an alternative, you can pass the .wav file as a byte array or a FileStream. The AudioPlayMode enumeration allows specifying how the audio file needs to be played. WaitToComplete means that no other code will be executed until the reproduction ends; Background, which is the default setting, means that the audio is reproduced asynchronously; last, BackgroundLoop means that the audio file is reproduced in the loop until you explicitly invoke the ...