   VB 2003 Media question and more.
  First of all do any of you have any good recommendations for getting music/sound effects efficiantly into a VB program.  The solution I am using at the moment is to load Windows Media Player in the program and hide its interface.  That works great for videos/music, but for responsive playing of many small sound effects it doesn't work to well.  Secondly, I just stumbled onto this place today.  I have always had a desire to make games, but never had the time/resources.  That and all the books I have ordered started off at to difficult of a level and compounded the issue with errors in the tutorials.  Finding this place is like a dream come true.  I have always been good at just working my way through things with very little help.  It's the time it takes me to solve the problem thats the issue.  I may spend several days trying to get the simplest of things to work before I get it.  I learned Basic by guess work.  Got really good at it too.  Then came Visual Basic.  I have been working with it on and off for years.  I always get to around the Intermediate level then quit untill I get rusty again.So, to this place I offer a general *huggle*. :D   
  Have u ever tried the DirectMedia from Direct-X?;  media files are simply formated text files , so you can create an interface that can interprete the contents of the file ,and access the sound hardware to send frequencies of the sounds recorded in the file , no ?. there are tons of libs that provide sound functionality , if you like media player , you don't need to place an ocx on the form , instead you can create a mediaplayer object in your code and play with that.google  "sound libraries for visual basic ".;  Thanks for awesome sugestions!  Don't know why that hadn't crossed my mind.  *shrugs*   