Play Sounds on an ASP.NET Web Page

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  Ed Dolikian17y agoPosted Feb 3, 2009, 3:44 PM

  Scott, Excellent article. It has really helped me a lot. I'm trying to get something to work and after almost a week, thought I'd simply ask. Suppose src file is in a directory off the root. How would you set the path. Although I set it to a file that exists, it simply won't play no matter what I try. (e.g. Ive tried filename = "App_Data/playfile.wav", Server.MapPath("app_data/playfile.wav") If I move the file back to the application root it works / plays when the page is loaded. Because of item 2, I don't want my users to have R/W privledges to my application root. Secondly, my real objective is to create the file that I want to play by making a selection from a GridView record. In this case, Soundfile is saved as a byte stream in a record of my database. When I select the record, I have it writing a file to the App_data subdirectory. (overwrites playfile.wav) I then attempt to set the PlayPageSound to that same file again. Either Gridview doesn't trigger a postback or file does not exist yet or get recongnized as existing. Anyidea's of how to make this work? Afterward, file was written cause I can play it back.
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    Ed Dolikian17y agoPosted Feb 4, 2009, 2:18 PM

    Sorry, I tried it again and turns out that the problem was that the contents of App_Data folder was not accessible. I moved the wav files to a regular "new" folder and think it is working now.
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    Scott Lysle17y agoPosted Feb 4, 2009, 3:25 AM

    Setting up a sounds folder and placing some wav files in it; I ran this code which executed without error. PlayPageSound1.SoundFile = "sounds/r2d2_01.wav"