Adding wav in exe

Question

Is there any way to add music to exe(c++)file without additional wave file?

For example, If I use "PlaySound" to play wav file, the wave file should be located under same folder where the exe file be. But I want to run it without wav file so that when someone receives the exe file, they can listen to the music without receiving the wav file..

I want it as a code...

And here's my current code.

#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>
using namespace std;


/* ========================================================================== */
enum {
    BLACK,
    DARK_BLUE,
    DARK_GREEN,
    DARK_SKY_BLUE,
    DARK_RED,
    DARK_VOILET,
    DARK_YELLOW,
    GRAY,
    DARK_GRAY,
    BLUE,
    GREEN,
    SKY_BLUE,
    RED,
    VIOLET,
    YELLOW,
    WHITE,
};

enum { HIDDEN, SHOW };

void CursorView(char show)
{
    HANDLE hConsole;
    CONSOLE_CURSOR_INFO ConsoleCursor;

    hConsole = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);

    ConsoleCursor.bVisible = show;
    ConsoleCursor.dwSize = 1;

    SetConsoleCursorInfo(hConsole, &ConsoleCursor);
}

void gotoxy(int x, int y)
{
    COORD XY = { x, y };
    SetConsoleCursorPosition(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), XY);
}
void SetColor(int color)
{
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), color);
}

void gamedraw(void)
{
        PlaySound(TEXT("10.wav"), NULL, SND_FILENAME | SND_LOOP | SND_ASYNC);

        printf("You are listening to my song.");

  getchar();
}
void MainInit(void)
{
   system("mode con: cols=100 lines=45");
   system("cls");
}

/* ========================================================================== */

int main(void)
{
   CursorView(HIDDEN);
   MainInit();

   gamedraw();

   for (;;) {

      if (GetAsyncKeyState(VK_ESCAPE) < 0)  break;
   }

   CursorView(SHOW);

   return 0;
}

For reference : [PlaySound](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd743680(v=vs.85).aspx). — François Andrieux, Dec 08 '17 at 20:07
I know how to use the "PlaySound".... but what I want to ask is... how to combine exe file and wav file into 1 exe file... so that I can run console and the wav file at the same time without additional window like windowmediaplayer. Just console. — cozyddd, Dec 08 '17 at 20:15
The reference is for anyone who may be trying to help you. It's neither a commonly used function, nor a standard function. — François Andrieux, Dec 08 '17 at 20:17
Possible duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20541707/add-resources-sound-files-to-exe-ms-visual-studio-2012 — François Andrieux, Dec 08 '17 at 20:18
Possible duplicate of [PlaySound works in Visual Studio but not in standalone exe](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36424691/playsound-works-in-visual-studio-but-not-in-standalone-exe) — zett42, Dec 08 '17 at 20:56

score -2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 08 '17 at 20:19

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You can add the .wav as a resource but then playing it becomes quite a lot more difficult (either you'll have to extract the resource to some path on disk or use one of the audio APIs to submit the wav data).

answered Dec 08 '17 at 20:19

SoronelHaetir

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`PlaySound()` can play a WAV resource, no need to extract it to a temp file first, or pump the data manually. See [Playing WAVE Resources](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd743679.aspx) on MSDN. – Remy Lebeau Dec 08 '17 at 20:28

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