VBA Play audiofile without stopping code

hannah2233

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Hey guys!!

In VBA i made a countdown timer, when it gets to 0 it executes an .wav audiofile then the countdown timer resets and counts down again. The problem is the code waits for the audiofile to play (~3 sec) before continuing. So you could imagine, if I counted down for 1min, the actual time would be 1min, 3seconds.

Is there a way to get the audiofile to play, while the remaining code still runs? I tried SND_ASYNC but that hasnt seemed to work. This is what code I have


Code:
Declare PtrSafe Function sndPlaySound32 Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "sndPlaySoundA" (ByVal lpazSoundName As String, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long

Public Const MySoundsPath = "C:\Users\Hannah\Music\"


Sub Playbeep()
    sndPlaySound32 MySoundsPath & "wololo.wav ", SND_ASYNC
End Sub

Much love, hannah
 

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