[How To] Add background Music

[marco1234]

I'll show you guys how to add Background music to your Visual Basics project. (2008 Edition)-



Guide:

1.- Start Visual Basics 2008

2.- Hit "New Project" at the very top.

3.- Name it like whatever you want and hit "Ok"

4.- Now.. First of all you need to save the Project 1 time, so there is Visual Basics Project folder of your Application, just hit "Save all" at the very top.

5.- I recommend you to save it : My documents -> Visual Studio 2008 -> Projects / But it doesn't matter that kinda much.

6.- Now if your done with saving the project, go and hit "Project" at the top, and click at the Roll down menu.. on Project Properities. At the end.

7.- You'll see a menu, click on "Resources".

8.- Now hit the small Arrow near "Add Resource" now you'll see a drop down menu, hit "Add existing file"

9.- Now you are in the Browse menu, go to the music you want to have as background music. (ONLY ".wav" Music FILES WILL WORK!) and double click on it.

10.- It should be added to your Resources now. IF IT GIVES YOU and error, go to your Project folder and make a Folder called "Resources" and add the music in it, and try to add the music again in the Resources.

11.- Now go back to the build menu, and add a Button.

12.- Double click on the Button, now you're in the Code- Menu.

13.- Now type in this:
CHANGE THE RED THING TO YOUR File Music NAME (WITHOUT ".WAV")

My.Computer.Audio.Play(My.Resources.song name of the song, AudioPlayMode.BackgroundLoop)

For Example:

My.Computer.Audio.Play(My.Resources.song pokerface, AudioPlayMode.BackgroundLoop)

14. If you want a button which stops the song, make a second button and double click on it. And type in this code:

My.Computer.Audio.Stop()

15. Now your Project is done! You can debug it whatever you want.





If you got questions, comment etc.

Please comment if it works, would be nice to hear then.

[Jonthe838]

this is epic... i will have alot of use for this! +Rep
sry need to spread

[Apoc]

Holy jesus christ. How many times must I make the same comment over and over...

STOP USING THE BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY LIBRARIES!

They are outdated, slow, and more or less buggy.

Look into the System.Media namespace to do all of this the PROPER way.

[marco1234]

Holy jesus christ. How many times must I make the same comment over and over...

STOP USING THE BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY LIBRARIES!

They are outdated, slow, and more or less buggy.

Look into the System.Media namespace to do all of this the PROPER way.

It works without any bugs/problems for me..

[Jonthe838]

Holy jesus christ. How many times must I make the same comment over and over...

STOP USING THE BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY LIBRARIES!

They are outdated, slow, and more or less buggy.

Look into the System.Media namespace to do all of this the PROPER way.

How is ur way?? is it faster? ^^ can u upload the code for that? :P

[Apoc]

' Create the SoundPlayer object, using a stream from our Song in the resources.
ReadOnly player As System.Media.SoundPlayer = New SoundPlayer(Properties.Resources.SongToPlay)

Private Sub btnPlay_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
    player.PlayLooping()
End Sub

Private Sub btnStop_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
    player.Stop()
End Sub

See how simple that was?

Also, all of the backwards compatibility libs (most off the stuff in the My.Computer, etc) have not been updated since .NET 1.1. They've received small updates to address bugs, but that's about it. (In truth, they should be removed completely, but since it will break backwards compatibility with older VB6 apps, they can't.)

[Jonthe838]

cool ^^ thx i will have alot of use for this

[[CimSlunt]]

This is good but how do i do it so the music start when the app opens and stop when closes?

[marco1234]

This is good but how do i do it so the music start when the app opens and stop when closes?

Yes just double click on the Form and In-put the code.
Then.. it should work.

[[CimSlunt]]

It does work, thank you

[Ebonesser]

This could really be useful in programs i'll make in the future...
Thnx for sharing +rep to both