Does anyone know a simple, cheap, and easy way to play midi files from Visual Basic 5.0? I would hate to have to change them over to *.wav files so I could use the PlaySound API function. It doesn't seem to work with *.mid files. Any ideas? Edited by - ByteBlaster256 on 9/27/00 11:53:28 AM

You can use DirectMusic in DirectX 7. It plays MIDI pretty well. You can also use MCI command strings, but I never had much luck with them, because when I would try to loop the MIDI, there would be a small but annoying skip in the playback.

i know it''s possible ''cause some people in one of the vb classes at my HS did it (and they weren''t that advanced) keep looking, it''s in there somewhere, i''ll tell you if i find any information

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Hey,
I think that I''ll use DirectMusic. I''ve already got DirectX 7.0 sdk on my computer, and I didn''t even know about DirectMusic.

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