Playing an mp3 using 8.1b?

[huh?]

Howdy,
In a game I am developing I currently load a wav file for background music
and am able to play it in the background successully (using CMusicSegment).
Trying to load an mp3 file using this fails.

Is there a way to load and play mp3 files in directx 8.1b??

[Chris P. [MVP]]

Post by huh?
Howdy,
In a game I am developing I currently load a wav file for background music
and am able to play it in the background successully (using CMusicSegment).
Trying to load an mp3 file using this fails.
Is there a way to load and play mp3 files in directx 8.1b??

AFAIK DirectMusic does not support compressed audio types such as MP3.

[huh?]

Thats too bad. Any suggestions for utlities outside of directx that I can use
in an application to play background music from mp3's while directx rendering
is going on?

Post by Chris P. [MVP]

Post by huh?
Howdy,
In a game I am developing I currently load a wav file for background music
and am able to play it in the background successully (using CMusicSegment).
Trying to load an mp3 file using this fails.
Is there a way to load and play mp3 files in directx 8.1b??

AFAIK DirectMusic does not support compressed audio types such as MP3.
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[Chris P. [MVP]]

Post by huh?
Thats too bad. Any suggestions for utlities outside of directx that I can use
in an application to play background music from mp3's while directx rendering
is going on?

I'd seen a few mentioned on Gamedev.net, although I don't have a link handy
at the moment.