playing sound using winapi?

[Stonemonkey]

Is it possible to play raw audio data stored in memory using the winapi?

Cheers,
Fryer.

[Rbz]

If you are looking for playing wave files, I know one way to play it from memory using playsound:

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//Play our sound
PlaySound( (const char *)soundData, NULL, SND_MEMORY);


Where "soundData" is your .wav file converted to C array buffer, something like this:

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static unsigned char soundData[] = {
0x00,0x50,0x00,0x20,0x00,0x78,0x00,0x20,0x00,.....
...
...
};

[Jim]

If your data really is raw data without a header, you can use waveOut* functions.  Check out the gm.dls code here http://dbfinteractive.com/index.php?topic=1702.0 for a sample of how to do that.
Or if you want something different, you can use DirectSound http://dbfinteractive.com/index.php?topic=1540.0

Jim

[Stonemonkey]

Ah, good stuff. Thanks Jim and rbraz.