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How to play PlaySound() anything else than *.wav?

UrsaWarlord (9)
Hello, I have a problem, I want to play some long sound files for a playlist made in C++ and the .wav files makes the file so big. Can you help me to play in another format, somehow?

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#include <iostream>
	#include <windows.h>
	#include <string>
	#include "resource.h"
	#include <conio.h>
	#pragma comment (lib, "winmm.lib")

	using namespace std;
	int main()
	{
		int choice;
		string choicee = "Your choice: ";
		string newchoice = "Your new choice: ";

		cout << "Welcome to UrsAWARLOrd's Playlist Audio Player" << endl;
			Sleep(750);
			cout << "Choose a song to listen from below by writing its number. To exit the program insert \"0\"" << endl << endl;
			Sleep(750);
			cout << "Song ID  Artist name \t \t Song name \t Release date"<< endl;
			cout << "1. \t Two Steps From Hell \t Archangel \t Released: 2011" << endl;
			cout << "2. \t Audiomachine \t \t Ashes of Time \t Released: 2015" << endl;
			cout << choicee; cin >> choice; cout << endl;
			if (choice == 2)
			{
				goto choice2;
			choice2:
				PlaySound(MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_WAVE1), NULL, SND_RESOURCE | SND_ASYNC); 
				cout << newchoice; cin >> choice;
				cout << endl;
				if (choice == 0)
					return 0;
				if (choice == 1)
					goto choice1;
				if (choice == 2)
					goto choice2;
			}
			if (choice == 1)
			{
				goto choice1;
				choice1:
				PlaySound(MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_WAVE2), NULL, SND_RESOURCE | SND_ASYNC);
				cout << newchoice; cin >> choice;
				cout << endl;
				if (choice == 0)
					return 0;
				if (choice == 2)
					goto choice2;
				if (choice == 1)
					goto choice1;
			}
			if (choice == 0)
			return 0;

	}
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Shadowwolf (168)
PlaySound will only play .wav files. To play files of any other format, you will have to write a decoder and play those files. The easiest solution would be to use a library for this purpose, but if you want to do it yourself, I suggest taking a look at the waveOut family of functions. These functions play raw music data. You will have to write a decoder to convert the file format you wish to play to raw music data, how to implement the decoder depends on the file format you wish to play.
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