HELP: MCI Control for VB 5 TimeFormat (CDAudio)
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>>Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am just writing a simple CD
>>Player and then I want it to access the CDDB servers to look up CD
>>information which needs the track offsets in MM:SS:FF format.
>I am working on the same thing (sort of). I have found a Microsoft article
>in their KB (Q94012) but it is for VB 2.0. It then tells you how to extract
>the information from the 4-byte integer returned.
>HOWEVER, it does not seem to work under VB 5 Enterprise. When I try what
>they say, I still do not get the correct information. I use the TMSF format
>and on a CD where the first song is 4m:19s long, it says track is 0, M is 2,
>S is 0 and F is 0 (at least that is what I remember). Since it says each
>part is returned as a byte (byte1 is least and byte4 is most significant), I
>assumed that their formulas (byte1 = mmcontrol.position and &HFF&) return
>actual values and you do not need to do any other transfomration.
>If you found out anything new, please let me know.
First off, the cddb data base does not use the same ID scheme as MS.
Your 0:02:00 is the starting position of the first track.
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