[AccessD] Easy way to play audio files from Access form

[Stuart McLachlan]

Are you sure about that? 

I suspect you may have had a custom function there similar to my previous post. 

Getz/Glibert's VBA Developers Handbook and Dev Ashish both used the API with no mention 
of a built in function.

-- 
Stuart

On 24 Dec 2016 at 19:48, Rocky Smolin wrote:

> It was easy back in Access 97.  There was a command PlaySound that
> pointed to a file.  I used to put insults and clips from cartoons or
> Homer saying D'oh to go with my messages.
> 
> But now,  I don't know.  Be interested in this one myself.
> 
> r
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf
> Of Tom Ewald Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2016 3:28 PM To:
> accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [AccessD] Easy way to play audio
> files from Access form
> 
> What's the easiest way to play a short (couple of seconds) audio file
> from an Access form? I have Access 2013, 64-bit. This should be so
> easy. The closest I've come is using an HTML link to an MP3 file on my
> desktop, and then having to go through Microsoft's stupid warning
> every time that the file I created with my software on my desktop
> could contain a virus. Good grief. It takes longer to get through the
> unwanted warning than to play the file. I'd rather have the file in
> the table, but I couldn't get that to work, either. It's a simple app
> to help me learn a foreign language, and I'd like to have the
> pronunciation available.
> 
> Thanks, and Merry Christmas to those who, like me, celebrate it.
> 
> Tom Ewald
> Detroit Area
> 
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