Talk:DirectX:DirectSound:Tutorials:VBNET:DX9:Playing Sounds

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This gives errors when I try this. Specifically I get problems with creation of the secondary buffer. I get an exception "Value does not fall within the expected range." on the line: 

           _buffer = New SecondaryBuffer(ofd.FileName, _dev)

Sadly the message is not specific as to which value it does not like. I had widened the search dialogue to include mp3 and mdw files and have similar results. Though this is certainly true of the code which is available for download.

I have looked at various news groups and found others with this same problem using DX9 but no solutions. I have downloaded the sample application posted and this displays the same error.

Any thoughts?

Stephen Connell.

I tried some experiments on my computer, and I noticed it gave the error when playing an mp3 file, but not when playing a wave file. You should only be using DirectSound for sound effects, not music. For music, use DirectAudioVideoPlayback. I wrote a tutorial on playing music for the wiki, which may help.
--Lachlan87 09:12, 8 Apr 2005 (EDT)
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