Playing wav file which has relative path inside project

Question

I have some problems with relative paths and reproduction of wav files. I have this simple code which works perfectly:

SoundPlayer player = new SoundPlayer();
player.SoundLocation = @"C:\Users\Admin\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\TestProject\TestProject\Data\Sounds\car.wav";
player.Play();

I want somehow to play that file with relative path but I didn't have success with this:

SoundPlayer player = new SoundPlayer();
player.SoundLocation = @"Data\Sounds\car.wav";
player.Play();

Thank you!

George Johnston · Answer 1 · 2013-04-17T17:07:29.033

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Is Data directory in the root directory of your application? Are you copying the directory contents as output?

If so, did you mean, Data\Sounds\car.wav?

Which, if running from Visual Studio would be in [projectroot]\[release]\bin\Data\Sounds\car.wav

If you don't see this directory in your bin folder, you'll need to ensure you're selecting all of the files you want copied to your output directory (which will copy the directory structure). You can do this by clicking on the file in your project and selecting the file as output.

edited Apr 17 '13 at 17:07

answered Apr 17 '13 at 17:00

George Johnston

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Yes, data is in the root directory. – Cristiano Apr 17 '13 at 17:04
Not according to the file path that works in your question it isn't. – George Johnston Apr 17 '13 at 17:05
Hm ... I created new Data directory by adding new directory inside TestProject with right click on Project and 'Add new folder'. Isn't that a root directory? :) – Cristiano Apr 17 '13 at 17:11
After compiling, your root is your bin\Debug or bin\Release directory. – George Johnston Apr 17 '13 at 17:12

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 17 '13 at 17:11

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Get the full path of your file with Path.GetFullPath("relativ/path")

answered Apr 17 '13 at 17:11

Sir l33tname

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Greg · Answer 3 · 2013-04-17T17:27:37.060

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You might be better off using absolute path after all. You can get the root path from the exe file, then append your relative path to it. Like this:

// getting root path
string rootLocation = typeof(Program).Assembly.Location;
// appending sound location
string fullPathToSound = Path.Combine(rootLocation, @"Data\Sounds\car.wav");
player.SoundLocation = fullPathToSound;

edited Apr 17 '13 at 17:27

answered Apr 17 '13 at 17:19

Greg

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This doesn't work for me - Assembly.Location contains the .EXE appended to the end, so I end up with bin\Debug\Program.exe\Data\Sounds which is wrong. – Matt Sep 10 '20 at 22:21

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 07 '20 at 13:05

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This is worked for me

System.Media.SoundPlayer player1 = new System.Media.SoundPlayer(Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location) + @"\1.wav");

answered Oct 07 '20 at 13:05

Nikolai Guryanov

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Thanks for your contribution. Can you [edit] your answer to explain how this fixes the original question's problem? – Mark Stewart Oct 07 '20 at 13:44

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 12 '14 at 13:18

   //WindowsFormsApplication4.exe is name of name space this file name found in Debug file

 //you should copy your "sound.wav" into your Debug file


      string x = (Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location + "");
      x = x.Replace("WindowsFormsApplication4.exe", "sound.wav");
      SoundPlayer player1 = new SoundPlayer(x);
      player1.Play();

Playing wav file which has relative path inside project

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