PlaySound not playing sound

[urisvirott]

I'm trying to use PlaySound to play back a WAV audio file. I can hear the audio when I reference the WAV file directly but can't hear anything when I try to play it from memory. Here's what I have:

#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500
#include <windows.h>
#include <mmsystem.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <conio.h>
#include <string>

class Wave {

public:
    Wave(string filename);
    ~Wave();
    void play(bool async = true);
    bool isok();

private:
    wchar_t* buffer;
    bool ok;
    HINSTANCE HInstance;
};

Wave::Wave(string filename)
{
    ok = false;
    buffer = 0;
    HInstance = GetModuleHandle(0);

    std::wifstream infile(filename, std::ios::binary);

    if (!infile)
    {
        std::cout << "Wave::file error: " << filename << std::endl;
        return;
    }

    infile.seekg(0, std::ios::end);   // get length of file
    ULONGLONG length = infile.tellg();
    buffer = new wchar_t[length];    // allocate memory
    infile.seekg(0, std::ios::beg);   // position to start of file
    infile.read(buffer, length);  // read entire file

    infile.close();
    ok = true;
}

Wave::~Wave()
{
    PlaySound(NULL, 0, 0); // STOP ANY PLAYING SOUND
    delete[] buffer;      // before deleting buffer.
}
void Wave::play(bool async)
{
    if (!ok)
        return;

    if (async)
        PlaySound(buffer, HInstance, SND_MEMORY | SND_ASYNC);
    else
        PlaySound(buffer, HInstance, SND_MEMORY);
}

bool Wave::isok()
{
    return ok;
}

I then use:

Wave audio("may_wav_file_name.WAV");
audio.play();

... crickets :)

[JRManx]

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[urisvirott]

Fixed: changed from wide char to char and cast buffer to LPCTSTR:

SoundFX::SoundFX(string filename)
{
    ok = false;
    buffer = 0;
    HInstance = GetModuleHandle(0);

    ifstream infile(filename, ios::binary);

    if (!infile)
    {
        cout << "Wave::file error: " << filename << endl;
        return;
    }

    infile.seekg(0, ios::end);   // get length of file
    ULONGLONG length = infile.tellg();
    buffer = new char[length];    // allocate memory
    infile.seekg(0, ios::beg);   // position to start of file
    infile.read(buffer, length);  // read entire file

    infile.close();
    ok = true;
}
void SoundFX::play(bool async)
{
    if (!ok)
        return;

    if (async)
        PlaySound((LPCTSTR)buffer, HInstance, SND_MEMORY | SND_ASYNC);
    else
        PlaySound((LPCTSTR)buffer, HInstance, SND_MEMORY);
}

bool SoundFX::isok()
{
    return ok;
}