title: Playing Windows System Sounds with System.Media.SoundPlayer
body: <p>Is it possible that the <code>System.Media.SoundPlayer</code> can not play Windows System Sounds found in <strong>c:\Windows\Media</strong>??</p>
  
  <p>I have the code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>using (var soundPlayer = 
         new SoundPlayer(@"c:\Windows\Media\Landscape\Windows Notify.wav")) 
  { 
      soundPlayer.Play(); 
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Yet when I run this code I get the error:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>Sound API only supports playing PCM wave files.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Am I missing something?  Is there a way to play these files from a WPF application?  (without converting them to PCM)</p>