Does anybody know where I could find a tutorial on how to build a simple MP3 player program in C#? I don't really care how complex the tutorial is, I just need to find one on how to make a music player in C#.

The trick is going to be decoding the mp3. I believe you need to pay to license a library that can do it for you; or you have to pay if you release it or something. Most people use OggVorbis instead for this reason.

I doubt you'll find a tutorial either way for such a specific application. What you want to google for are things like: "mp3 library" "mp3 C++", etc. When you find an API that can decode mp3 files there should be nearby documentation about how to use that API.

Then you'll want to find tutorials on building C# GUI interfaces. Once you figure that out you'll be able to combine your knowledge of how to make a C# application and how to decode mp3 tracks to make your mp3 player.

good luck.

-me

I use Microsoft Visual Studio C# Express Edition 2005 (latest version) to develope my C# programs. Nobody knows of any tutorial that could help explain to me how to create a MP3 playing software or software that plays music files in any kind of format besides MP3? I don't care what format the songs have to be. I am trying to make a simple program which includes a library of songs that a user adds his songs to and plays from the list within the same program.

What I think you want is something that does the following:

<Pseudocode>
Start Application
Check for user preferences
Check for last user playlist / files / directory
Create GUI
Main_Loop
Wait for button click
Handle Click
if (click = do something to file)
Start_Thread (do something to file)
end if
if (click = stop)
Pause playback in thread
end if
end loop
</Pseudocode>

Essentially its a very simple process, you have a bit of code which can handle the mp3/file playback (possibly a plugin so you can expand this?), your GUI code and the rest is basically loading / saving preferences and handling clicks.

For a GUI I would suggest something like wxWidgets or Fox toolkit (wxWidgets has a media player example iirc), FMOD for the sound files and some language to tie the two together.