How do I play MP3 files within Labview?

[toofast4u]

Hello,

Is it possible to play MP3 files within labview? I know you can play a wav, but is there anything I can modify within the wave playing VI so I can play mp3's?

Thanks

[alipio]

Hi
You can download the Gamp mp3 player from this link:
http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niepd_web_display.display_epd4?p_guid=B123AE0CBC8F111EE034080020E74861

Cheers
Alipio

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

Could you use an Active X container to execute Windoze media player?

[Evan]

AnalogKid2DigitalMan

I took a look at the example that "alipio" pointed out and it uses the windows media player... so I guess the answer to your question is yes. 🙂

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

I neglected to look at the link. I remeber in LV Intermediate class we did an example with Active X and WMP.

[toofast4u]

with gamp, How can I have it automatically load a playlist that I want? For my project I want to input a mood, and based on that mood, I want GAMP to play a specific list of songs (i.e. a playlist)

Thanks

Hooman

[alipio]

Hi
I do not use Gamp nor player1. I know they play wav, mp3, etc using activeX, but can´t help in your work.

You can download player1 and see if fits better in your project.
Link: http://ibme.mc.ntu.edu.tw/labview/cgi-bin/download/files/
File: playe1.vi.

Hope it helps
Alipio

[Vishwarath1990]

Is this thread updated ...LOL

[cbutcher]

Although the code I'm posting below is dreadful, it shows a simple example I put together quickly.

Information about the Windows Media Player COM Object can be found at this MSDN link.

The code below is a VI Snippet. It can be dragged and dropped into a blank block diagram. You might need to re-insert the WMP ActiveX Object (they can be annoying - I don't know) by right clicking on the container and selecting Insert Object...

Take care to close the appropriate references (I haven't!) and use the appropriate combination of Invoke Nodes and Property Nodes to find information or set/get values from the references you acquire.

Here, I get a 'playlistCollection' object and then getAll. You could instead getByName and pass the name of a string. I'm pretty confident there will be a way from there to start playing the playlist object reference returned!