visual studio 2010 - PlaySound in C beeps but does not play wav file

Question

In C, my PlaySound is not throwing any errors... but instead of playing the file I want, it just beeps.

Any suggestions?

I tried :

PlaySound("song1.wav", NULL, SND_ALIAS | SND_APPLICATION); 

And:

PlaySound("song1.wav", NULL, SND_FILENAME); 

But I got the same result.

Answer 1

Instead of using relative path like you have done:

PlaySound("song1.wav", NULL, SND_FILENAME); 

Use an absolute path like:

PlaySound("F:\path\to\your\song\song1.wav", NULL, SND_FILENAME);