How can I play a sound in WinForms?

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How can I play a sound in WinForms with C#?

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 20 '09 at 06:20

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For playing sound simply, with no interaction you can use System.Media.SoundPlayer:

System.Media.SoundPlayer player = new System.Media.SoundPlayer();
player.SoundLocation = "soundFile.wav";
player.Play();

answered Aug 20 '09 at 06:20

Karl Johan

This doesn't work for me. I get "the format of the URI cannot be determined". Seems it needs a full path, not just a relative path. – Matt Sep 10 '20 at 22:17

score 9 · Answer 2 · edited May 31 '20 at 20:28

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NAudio is a great library to reproduce sound, you can find it here: http://naudio.codeplex.com/

edited May 31 '20 at 20:28

answered Aug 20 '09 at 06:06

Sebastian Gray

2 Answers2