A problem with PlaySound

[NUCkSL3A]

Hello, I am currently doing a project, and part of it requires a sound to be played. Here's the code fragment that's troubling me:

PlaySound(L"C:\\Windows\\Media\\Calm\\nuke.wav", NULL, SND_FILENAME);

I double checked that the file existed, and that I typed the name in right. But when the playsound command is run, it just makes a ding. Any help would be appreciated. Oh, and btw, this works with system wav files, but not with this one. (Yes, I did test that my wav is a valid file)

[xismn]

From the MSDN PlaySound documentation:

If the file cannot be found, the function plays the default sound unless the SND_NODEFAULT flag is set.

The "ding" you're hearing is the default system event sound.

So, PlaySound cannot find the file because either:

1.) The file path is wrong
2.) The file doesn't exist

[NUCkSL3A]

But the problem is that it DOES exist, and I typed in the path right. It works with system sounds but not any that I downloaded.

[Thomas1965]

Try this code and see if you get any error msg.

#include <windows.h>
#include <tchar.h>
#include <conio.h> // for _tcprintf

#pragma comment(lib, "Winmm.lib")

bool FileExists (TCHAR* szFileName)
{
  DWORD result = 0L;
  WIN32_FIND_DATA fd;
  HANDLE hFile;

  hFile = FindFirstFile (szFileName, &fd);
  if (hFile == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
  {
    return false;
  }
  FindClose (hFile);

  return true;
}

void ShowWinError ()
{
  TCHAR szBuf[1024];
  TCHAR *lpMsgBuf;
  DWORD err_code = GetLastError ();

  FormatMessage (FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER | FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM,
                 0, err_code, MAKELANGID (LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT),
                (TCHAR*)&lpMsgBuf, 0, 0);

  _tcprintf (szBuf, _T("Error: %d: %s"), err_code, lpMsgBuf);

  MessageBox (NULL, szBuf, _T("Error"), MB_OK);

  LocalFree (lpMsgBuf);

}


int main ()
{
  TCHAR szFileName[] = _T ("C:\\Windows\\Media\\Calm\\nuke.wav");

  if (!FileExists (szFileName))
  {
    ::MessageBox (0, _T ("File does not exist"), _T ("MISSING FILE"), MB_OK | MB_ICONERROR);
    return EXIT_FAILURE;
  }
  if (!PlaySound (szFileName, 0, SND_FILENAME | SND_NODEFAULT))
  {
    ShowWinError ();
    return EXIT_FAILURE;
  }

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

[NUCkSL3A]

nope, that still didn't detect it.

[Duthomhas]

Check your WIN.INI or system registry to make sure you haven't changed the sound association attached to that file.

[NUCkSL3A]

I found the problem. The guy who sent me the files didn't convert them to wav, just changed the file extension. Anyways, it's all cleared up.