title: need help playing mp3 files within .NET application?
body: <p>My requirements are:
      - play a mp3 file on button click
      - provide a option to seek to a particular time</p>
  
  <p>Almost all of the tutorials/resources that I came through, used ".wav" files to play the sound. But I need to play a ".mp3" file within the application, preferably without using any 3rd party library(NAudio, BASS, etc). I expect, it can be done using the available classes of the System.Media namespace. </p>
  
  <p>What is the difference between a .wav file and .mp3 file? Are they encoded in different manner, and need different media plugins to be played?</p>
  
  <p>So any help regarding mp3 files would be appreciated. Thanks.</p>