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Simple Music Player

With control flow we can now build a simple music player that lets the user load and play songs. This program will:

  • Show a menu for the user to select from
  • Allows the user to load a song from a file
  • Outputs a message to confirm if the music file was loaded
  • Allows the user to play a song
  • Will output a message if they try to play something they have not loaded
  • Allows the user to stop the music
  • Will output a message if they try to stop music and nothing is playing

Here is an example of the output from this:

Welcome to my simple music player


1: Load song
2: Play song
3: Stop song
4: Quit
Option: 1


What is the name of the song: Test
Path to the file: /c/Users/andrew/Downloads/test.oggg


Loading /c/Users/andrew/Downloads/test.oggg failed!


1: Load song
2: Play song
3: Stop song
4: Quit
Option: 3


No music is playing playing


1: Load song
2: Play song
3: Stop song
4: Quit
Option: 1


What is the name of the song: Test
Path to the file: /c/Users/andrew/Downloads/test.ogg


Loading /c/Users/andrew/Downloads/test.ogg passed!


1: Load song
2: Play song
3: Stop song
4: Quit
Option: 2


What is the name of the song: my song
There is nothing called 'my song' loaded


1: Load song
2: Play song
3: Stop song
4: Quit
Option: 2


What is the name of the song: Test
(music starts playing)


1: Load song
2: Play song
3: Stop song
4: Quit
Option: 4


Bye