I was writing a sound manager for a game project i'm doing for a class.  Everything looks right, but when I go to compile my code, I get an error message along the lines of "cannot autodetect which importer to use for 'filename'. there are no importers which handle this file type. Specify the importer that handles this file type in your project."
I'm was using XACT to create my sound banks and wave banks, and the type of sound files i'm using are .wav

and help on this problem would be appreciated.

Only the .xap file should be added to your project. The .wav files can be in your project folder, but shouldn't be added to the project.

If that isn't the problem, could you post the exact text of the error message? 'filename' doesn't tell us which file(s) it's having a problem with.

 

You are probably adding the wav files to your content project. You don't want to do that. Just add the XACT project to your content project and add the wav files to that.

Looks like you added the .wav file to the content project. You don't need to do that.

You only need to add the XACT project (.xap file) to your Visual Studio solution. The .wav files are referenced indirectly by the .xap, and do not need to be included directly. If you do want to include them for some other reason, you should set their build action to None rather than Compile, so the Content Pipeline will not attempt to individually build each .wav.

David Hunt:

Only the .xap file should be added to your project. The .wav files can be in your project folder, but shouldn't be added to the project.

Nick Gravelyn:

You are probably adding the wav files to your content project. You don't want to do that.

Machaira:

Looks like you added the .wav file to the content project. You don't need to do that.

Shawn Hargreaves:

The .wav files are referenced indirectly by the .xap, and do not need to be included directly.

Is anyone else getting a really weird echo in here? :)

EliTayrien:

David Hunt:

Only the .xap file should be added to your project. The .wav files can be in your project folder, but shouldn't be added to the project.

Nick Gravelyn:

You are probably adding the wav files to your content project. You don't want to do that.

Machaira:

Looks like you added the .wav file to the content project. You don't need to do that.

Shawn Hargreaves:

The .wav files are referenced indirectly by the .xap, and do not need to be included directly.

Is anyone else getting a really weird echo in here? :)

Heh. David, Nick and I seemed to have been posting at about the same time. Shawn jumped in late. :)

Hey, thanks guys.  That solved my problem.