如何在 C# 控制台应用程序中使用音效？

Question

I´m doing this small RPG game in the C# console app, and I wanted to add some background music and effects when choosing menu options.

What I noticed was that I wasn´t able to do anything when the background music started to play. I thought of threading, but this is completly new to me (started to learn C# 6 weeks ago).

What I managed to do was starting a new thread and play the sounds

static Thread backgroundMusic = new Thread(() =>
    {

        using (var audioFile = new AudioFileReader(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "\\menu.mp3"))
        using (var outputDevice = new WaveOutEvent())
        {
            backgroundMusic.IsBackground = true;
            outputDevice.Init(audioFile);
            outputDevice.Play();
            while (true)
            {
                Thread.Sleep(1);
            }

        }
    });

And then for the sound effect I do...

static Thread click = new Thread(() =>
    {

        using (var audioFile = new AudioFileReader(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "\\click.mp3"))
        using (var outputDevice = new WaveOutEvent())
        {
            click.IsBackground = true;
            outputDevice.Init(audioFile);
            outputDevice.Play();
            while (true)
            {
                Thread.Sleep(1);
            }
        }
    });

I start these with click.Start(); backgroundMusic.Start();

Ok so far so good. It plays the background music and it plays the sound effect, but only one time. Can I reuse the thread in some way to play the click sound again when another option is chosen? And can I abort sound in some way? I might want different music when you play the game and in the menus.

tried backgroundMusic.Abort(); but then I got this:

System.PlatformNotSupportedException: 'Thread abort is not supported on this platform.'

And i can not restart a thread once I´ve started it one time. I tried with backgroundMusic.Start();

I´ve been checking out forums but all seems to cover windows forms, and not be working with console app.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading.thread?view=net-5.0 I´ve also checked out the documentation... but honestly I think the documentation at microsoft is NOT for beginners. I find it very hard to understand.

I´ve might have been doing it all wrong, so don´t be hard on me, but please come with suggestions how I can improve.

So I want: Background music playing and looping Click sound every time you choose a menu option

I have: Background music playing once (til the end of the file) Click sound on the first menu option, there after it throws an exception (see above)

Answer 1

You should never, ever use Thread.Abort() . It just stops the thread in an "evil" way - by throwing an exception, and you never know what side effects that will have.

You need CancellationToken . Check out this article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/threading/cancellation-in-managed-threads