[SOLVED] There must be a better way of playing MP3s

[pixelink]

I made this simple app to play just MP3 files.
However, All I could come up with was using WMP.

BUT, it is very buggy. The ActiceX control crashes quite often while playing.

Isn't there a simple and easier way to just play an MP3 without installing a huge library?

[winni]

Hi!

There is an example how to use the VLC as videoplayer but you can use it the same way as audioplayer:

http://lazplanet.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-to-make-simple-video-player-in.html

Winni

[pixelink]

Hi!

There is an example how to use the VLC as videoplayer but you can use it the same way as audioplayer:

http://lazplanet.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-to-make-simple-video-player-in.html

Winni

Yeah, I am aware of that too, but I want to get away from ActX

[nouzi]

See  https://youtu.be/esA0Juwq9EE 

[pixelink]

See  https://youtu.be/esA0Juwq9EE

Dude... didn't you even read my post above.

I don't want use an actX control.

[lainz]

Well the other option is installing the huge library, but you don't like that too. 

Try UOS package.
https://wiki.freepascal.org/uos

[winni]

Hi!

I don't know a "small" solution to play mp3 files. I think there is no.

Then the other way round:

Convert your mp3 file to wav. And then it is really simple in Windows:

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1. uses ......., MMSystem;
2.  
3. begin
4. sndPlaySound('C:\sounds\holy.wav', snd_Async or snd_NoDefault);
5. end;
6.  
7.  

Winni

[Thaddy]

See here : http://www.looprecorder.de/tut_l3codec.php uses the ACM codec.

[wp]

It will not be possible to play mp3 "out of the box". A small extension is using BASS. You need the bass.dll from https://www.un4seen.com/, free for non-commercial projects, cross-platform. I am attaching a small demo prepared for playing mp3, wav, ogg and flac files (I don't know, BASS maybe can handle more formats, I only checked the mentioned ones). Your code requires only a few lines (my Sound* routines). The sample comes with the bass.dll for 32 bit windows. Note that you must replace it by the 64-bit version if you want to compile the demo for 64 bit, otherwise the demo will abort immediately.

[lucamar]

Another solution which I use in a small "sound library" tool I have is simply to use a TASyncProcess (or just TProcess) to call SoX in play mode. Sox is almost ideal for this because it's small has lots of features (though I just use the "play" part) and is multi-platform.

Drawback, of course, is that you need to install it in the target computer along with your application.

Note that you can use your own preferred command-line player this way; it need not be sox.

[winni]

Additions to wp:

I would not say that the BASS library is "small".

And as pixellink has his company it must be pointed out that BASS is only free for non-commercial use.

Supported file formats of soundfiles and playlists are

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1. SuffixOK : array[0..19]  of string = (  
2.                                        '.mp3',
3.                                        '.ogg',
4.                                        '.wav',
5.                                        '.mp2',
6.                                        '.mp1',
7.                                        '.aiff',
8.                                        '.m2a',
9.                                        '.mpa',
10.                                        '.m1a',
11.                                        '.mpg',
12.                                        '.mpeg',
13.                                        '.aif',
14.                                        '.mp3pro',
15.                                        '.bwf',
16.                                        '.mus',
17.                                        '.pls',
18.                                        '.m3u',
19.                                        '.flac',
20.                                        '.fla',
21.                                        '.mp4'  );      

There are extension libraries for CDs, Mixer and a lot more.

It works without any problems on Linux and Windows.

Winni

[marcov]

This link seems to suggest DirectShow.

[wp]

I would not say that the BASS library is "small".

A dll which is smaller than the forum upload limit of 250 kB *is* small nowadays.

[winni]

Okay. Too old fashioned me.

I started once with 64 k Ram .....

Winni

[pixelink]

Thanks everyone... I will check all this out.