SAMPLE: Controlling the CD Using mciSendCommand()

 Last reviewed: February 15, 1996
Article ID: Q81871
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows version 3.1

PLAYCD is a file in the Microsoft Software Library that demonstrates how an application developed for Microsoft Windows can play a music CD (compact disk) in a CD-ROM (compact disk read-only memory) drive. PLAYCD has two parts: the PLAYCD application and the PLYCD dynamic-link library (DLL).

The PLAYCD application does very little by itself. It calls functions in the PLYCD DLL to play the CD.

The PLYCD DLL contains code to control the CD-ROM player. PLYCD includes functions to play the CD, pause, move forward and backward by tracks, determine the position within the CD, and eject the CD from the drive. PLYCD interacts with the Media Control Interface (MCI) using the mciSendCommand() API.

Download PLAYCD.EXE from the Microsoft Software Library (MSL) on the following services:

  • Microsoft Download Service (MSDL) 

          Dial (206) 936-6735 to connect to MSDL
      Download PLAYCD.EXE (size: 26013 bytes)
  • Internet (anonymous FTP) 

          ftp ftp.microsoft.com
      Change to the \SOFTLIB\MSLFILES directory
      Get PLAYCD.EXE (size: 26013 bytes)

Additional reference words: 3.10 softlib PLAYCD.EXE
KBCategory: kbmm kbprg kbfile
KBSubcategory: MMCDROM

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Last reviewed: February 15, 1996
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