Playing a MP3 file in a WinForm application

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I am developing a WinForm application  I want to play a MP3 file when the user clicks a button     The MP3 file is located in the file system of the computer where the application is executed  I have Googled for a while and I have found information about the System Media SoundPlayer class  But I have read that the SoundPlayer class can only be used to play files in  wav format     What classes can be used to play files in  mp3 format    Any help will be greatly appreciated

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You can use the mciSendString API to play an MP3 or a WAV file    DllImport  winmm dll    public static extern uint mciSendString       string lpstrCommand      StringBuilder lpstrReturnString      int uReturnLength      IntPtr hWndCallback     mciSendString   close temp alias   null  0  IntPtr Zero   mciSendString   open   music mp3   alias temp alias   null  0  IntPtr Zero   mciSendString  play temp alias repeat   null  0  IntPtr Zero

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You can do it using old DirectShow functionality   This answer teaches you how to create QuartzTypeLib dll    Run tlbimp tool  in your case path will be different   Run TlbImp exe  windir  system32 quartz dll  out QuartzTypeLib dll   Alternatively  this project contains the library interop QuartzTypeLib dll  which is basically the same thing as steps 1  and 2  The following steps teach how to use this library    Add generated QuartzTypeLib dll as a COM-reference to your project  click right mouse button on the project name in  Solution Explorer   then select  Add  menu item and then  Reference   In your Project  expand the  References   find the QuartzTypeLib reference  Right click it and select properties  and change  Embed Interop Types  to false   Otherwise you won t be able to use the FilgraphManager class in your project  and probably a couple of other ones    In Project Settings  in the Build tab  I had to disable the Prefer 32-bit flag  Otherwise I would get this Exception  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  Exception from HRESULT  0x80040266 Use this class to play your favorite MP3 file   using QuartzTypeLib   public sealed class DirectShowPlayer       private FilgraphManager FilterGraph       public void Play string path                FilgraphManager   new FilgraphManager            FilterGraph RenderFile path           FilterGraph Run               public void Stop                 FilterGraph  Stop               PS  TlbImp exe can be found here   C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft SDKs Windows v7 0A Bin   or in  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft SDKs Windows v10 0A bin NETFX 4 7 2 Tools

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1  The most simple way would be using WMPLib  WMPLib WindowsMediaPlayer Player   private void PlayFile String url        Player   new WMPLib WindowsMediaPlayer        Player PlayStateChange    Player PlayStateChange      Player URL   url      Player controls play       private void Player PlayStateChange int NewState        if   WMPLib WMPPlayState NewState    WMPLib WMPPlayState wmppsStopped                  Actions on stop           2  Alternatively you can use the open source library NAudio  It can play mp3 files using different methods and actually offers much more than just playing a file   This is as simple as  using NAudio  using NAudio Wave   IWavePlayer waveOutDevice   new WaveOut    AudioFileReader audioFileReader   new AudioFileReader  Hadouken  - Ugly mp3     waveOutDevice Init audioFileReader   waveOutDevice Play      Don t forget to dispose after the stop  waveOutDevice Stop    audioFileReader Dispose    waveOutDevice Dispose

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The link below  gives a very good tutorial  about playing mp3 files from a windows form with c    http   www daniweb com software-development csharp threads 292695 playing-mp3-in-c  This link will lead you to a topic  which contains a lot information about how to play an mp3 song  using Windows forms  It also contains a lot of other projects  trying to achieve the same thing   http   social msdn microsoft com forums en-US csharpgeneral thread 3dbfb9a3-4e14-41d1-afbb-1790420706fe  For example use this code for  mp3   WMPLib WindowsMediaPlayer wplayer   new WMPLib WindowsMediaPlayer     wplayer URL    My MP3 file mp3   wplayer Controls Play      Then only put the wplayer Controls Play    in the Button Click event   For example use this code for  wav   System Media SoundPlayer player   new System Media SoundPlayer     player SoundLocation    Sound wav   player Play      Put the player Play    in the Button Click event  and it will work

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first go to the properties of your project click on add references add the library under COM object for window media player then type your code where you want  Source       WMPLib WindowsMediaPlayer wplayer   new WMPLib WindowsMediaPlayer         wplayer URL     C  Users Adil M Documents Visual Studio 2012 adil mp3       wplayer controls play

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Refactoring   new WindowsMediaPlayer     URL    MyMusic mp3    controls play

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