Playing sound files in QB45

[ahenry3068]

The good folks on the QB64PE team were good enough to include it for you.

Start reading here:
https://qb64phoenix.com/qb64wiki/index.php/SNDOPEN

    https://qb64phoenix.com/qb64wiki/index.php/SNDPLAY

https://qb64phoenix.com/qb64wiki/index.php/SNDCLOSE

_SNDPLAY works with .WAV, .AIFF, MP3, M4A, MP4 & Others.

I think it even works with MIDI (but you have to mess around with SNDFONTS for that,  I haven't done it yet.

I don't want to do it in QB64 I want to do it in QB45/QB71..

Ohhh.   I should have read more closely.     ...   My bad !!.       That's a whole other ball of wax.     What machine do you plan on writing this on ?    I think it should work on at least a fast 486. But anything slower than that is going to be a chore.  QB45/QB71 are not the most efficient compilers.    It may be a better approach to find a linkable library written in C or Pascal.
and just link it in to your program.    I found this for MS-Dos (written in C,  GPL code)  --> https://www.forfoss.com/mpxplay-32-bit-c...d-windows/

Also some other stuff https://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/so...mp3players.    Most of the stuff seems to want to run in Dos protected mode.    I don't think Microsoft ever added that capability to the Dos BASIC compilers.   You may be able to find something here that will work with SHELL.