Looping a sound byte?

[Mel Bishop]

I have a sound byte that lasts for some change over 13 seconds and I want to keep looping it. Not that it matters but it's crickets. I grew up on a farm in Kansas and I find the sound very relaxing.

Anyway, I have tried MCISENDSTRING in all kinds of ways but there's always a short delay, snick, tick or thud between the time one loop ends and the next one begins.

Any thoughts on how to make the transition smooth and free of defects?

[Marco Pontello]

You can use an audio editor and make sure that the waveform start and stop at 0/no noise, with a gentle enough fade-in & fade-out.
The free Audacity can surely do the job.

Bye!

[Joseph Cote]

Goldwave is also a nice sound editor. Not free, but you can try it for free.

[Paul Dixon]

Mel,
Doesn't the PLAYSOUND api do that?

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms712879(VS.85).aspx

Set the SND_LOOP flag and the same .wav file will repeat.

Paul.

[Mel Bishop]

...Doesn't the PLAYSOUND api do that...

Weeeelllllll, I've never used playsound. I'll let'cha know what happens.

Added: Come to find out, I have played with it, but didn't remember when I typed the above words. Ooops!!