Audio Playback Repeat

[Jhawk]

I have a weird issue to resolve. We have an application, which uses
the inbuilt windows media player to play audio files. If the media
player is used outside our app to play regular music and if the
'repeat' option is checked by the user, it affects our playback as
well: our audio file also keeps repeating itself. Basically, the
option is carried over to our instance of the player as well.

If I go open the media player (from Start->Programs) and uncheck the
repeat option, the problem is fixed. But obviously a normal user
wouldnt know that and if our audio keeps repeating, it is very very
annoying. I wanted to ask if anyone knew how to programatically make
sure that the repeat option is not turned on.

Our app is in C# and the target platform is Windows Smartphone, still
using 1.0 framework. For the media player, we r using a C++ dll.

Please let me know of any ideas. Thank you.

 

[Jeff Hopper]

Have you considered playing the sound directly from your application by
calling the WCE_PlaySoundBytes native function? See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229685(VS.80).aspx for sample
code.

Jeff Hopper
Hopper Consulting, Inc.