PlaySound() mmslib does not play existing sound

By Ogburn6521/10 10:13Fri Oct 1 10:13:04 2021

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EDIT: Solved. Simply the .wav file was not accepted by Windows. I plucked one of Windows own files and renamed it to what my previous file was called and it plays without problem.

I don't know why this can't play the existing file. Windows gives a chime in that something is wrong but I have no clue what.

I added a check right before to make sure it exists. I have also tried absolute paths.

string wavPath = "c:\\frog.wav";

struct stat stFileInfo;
bool blnReturn = (stat(wavPath.c_str(), &stFileInfo) == 0); //this returns true

FILE* fp = fopen(wavPath.c_str(), "r");
if (fp) {
fclose(fp); //this triggers
}

PlaySound(wavPath.c_str(), NULL, SND_FILENAME | SND_ASYNC); //m_hinstance
//C:\\Users\\Wollan\\My Code\\A\\Debug\\frog.wav
//TEXT("frog.wav")
//TEXT(wavPath.c_str())
//(LPCSTR)"frog.wav¨
The file plays fine in WMP.

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