In your play string try:
mciSendString("play Data/Overworld.mid repeat", NULL, 0, NULL);

There''s more info on MSDN.

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you could look at using FMOD which has good MIDI support (aswell as all other formats).. Is free and is very easy to use..

Try to use OpenAL to play sounds.

I know it is much more complicated than MCI but it is a new world of sound-programming!

Many things are very equal to OpenGL

http://www.openal.org

Dark

McNugget next time...

[edited by - DarkKiller on April 30, 2003 12:00:46 PM]

I also raccomand FMOD.

AL would actually be my best choice but looks like it's going to hell. Anyway, it is very easy and I actually think it's approach is very good.


EDIT: note about AL easiness.

[edited by - Krohm on April 30, 2003 6:29:56 PM]

Here`s the code I use for playing midi-s:
UINT wDeviceID;
DWORD dwReturn;
MCI_OPEN_PARMS mciOpenParms;
MCI_PLAY_PARMS mciPlayParms;
void stop();
DWORD play(LPSTR lpszMIDIFileName){
stop();
mciOpenParms.lpstrDeviceType = "sequencer";
mciOpenParms.lpstrElementName = lpszMIDIFileName;
unsigned int U;
if (dwReturn = mciSendCommand(U,MCI_OPEN,MCI_OPEN_TYPE | MCI_OPEN_ELEMENT,(DWORD)&mciOpenParms))
{
return (dwReturn);
}
wDeviceID = mciOpenParms.wDeviceID;
if (dwReturn = mciSendCommand(wDeviceID, MCI_PLAY, MCI_NOTIFY,
(DWORD)(LPVOID) &mciPlayParms))
{
mciSendCommand(wDeviceID, MCI_CLOSE,0,0);
return (dwReturn);
}
return dwReturn;
}
void stop(){
mciSendCommand(wDeviceID, MCI_STOP, MCI_NOTIFY,
(DWORD)(LPVOID) &mciPlayParms);
mciSendCommand(wDeviceID, MCI_CLOSE, 0, 0);
}
//and then in the use code :
{
................
play("Mymidi.mid");
................
}
//I sorted the stop() function that way so you can play another midi just by calling another play() function...