loading and playing a random file

[Larry]

Is there a way I can get a MMF2 application, while running, to fish around in a folder, select a file, then play it?

I'm talking about music files here, like .mp3's.

Basically, the way it's supposed to work is that the user, by means of the the "Explorer object" fish around until you locate the folder you want.

Then, at random intervals, the application will pick a song from this folder and play it. When it's done, it'll pick another song and play that, etc.

Any ideas on how I could code this?

Thanks.

[DavidN]

I'm not sure of the details of the file objects to use, but you'd have to use the dialog object to allow the user to select a folder, then get the list of available files from the object and add those that were playable (the ones that have the .mp3 extension, for example) into a List object.

After that it's just a matter of selecting a random line from the list object and playing the file that's contained in the line (with the "Play file on a specific channel" action of the internal sound object).

There isn't an MP3 extension for MMF2 yet, but similar sound files should be playable in this way.

[Joshtek]

There isn't an MP3 extension for MMF2 yet, but similar sound files should be playable in this way.

You should be able to play MP3s through the DirectShow object.