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GREAT Mr. Gambit,
 I didn't know You are an expert of mutlimedia developing too ... Is there 
anything You can't do with BCB? :-)
I'll try what you suggest right now :)
Thank You very much again,
Best regards,
Stefano B.

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> ha scritto nel messaggio 
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> "Stefano Bonifazi" <stefboombastic@libero.it> wrote in message
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>>  I need to play audio-cds from within my application.  The problem
>> is that both TMediaPlayer and mci APIs seem to open always a
>> "default" CD-ROM drive, that is I cannot set the CD-ROM drive
>> in which the Audio cd is :-(
>
> TMediaPlayer does not support what you are looking for.
>
> The MCI API, on the other hand, has an MCI_OPEN_TYPE_ID flag available for
> the MCI_OPEN command.  That flag will allow you to specify the index of 
> the
> specific CD-ROM drive that you want to use.  You can use the MCI_SYSINFO
> command to determine how many CD-ROM drives are available to MCI.  If
> successful, the MCI_OPEN command returns the ID of the device, which you 
> can
> then use to send other commands to that same device.
>
>> I'd need seek capabilities into the played track too
>
> There is an MCI_SEEK command available for that.  Make sure to use the
> MCI_SET command after opening the CD-ROM drive to set the device's time
> format to MCI_FORMAT_TMSF (track/minute/second/frame).
>
> You can use the MCI_MAKE_TMSF() macro when specifying time stamps to the
> MCI_PLAY and MCI_SEEK commands.  Use the MCI_TMSF_TRACK(),
> MCI_TMSF_MINUTE(), MCI_TMSF_SECOND(), and MCI_TMSF_FRAME() macros when
> retreiving the individual values from time stamps that you obtain.
>
> You can use the MCI_STATUS command to query information about the 
> individual
> tracks, such as their lengths.
>
>
> Gambit
>
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