Interact with audio in c# without the use of external APIs?

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I would like to interact with audio without the use of external APIs such as BASS.net or NAudio, I know WPF has a way to do this naively but I haven't seen anything in winforms yet, after digging around a bit I was able to find a couple examples on how to play audio, but none on how to actually analyze and interact with it.

I am looking for any example or article that might push me in the right direction, I have looked a little into the NAudio source, but that's as far as I've gotten.

Thanks in advance,
Jordan

Posted 9-Jan-15 4:59am

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Updated 9-Jan-15 15:33pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-09T07:22:00

You did not explain what do you mean by "interact". All those 3rd-party products do nothing but using one or another Microsoft API, so you can do the same.

First and oldest API is the winmm.dll (Multimedia System), which you can use via P/Invoke:
http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/winmm/_ContentBaseDefinition.html[^].

Find all of those functions and types in MSDN to see what they do.

Another option is to use DirectSound: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee416960%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[^].

Yes, you can use it directly with C#: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb318770%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[^].

This is a really big topic. So, please don't ask me how to work with it and what approach to chose, not until you explain what exactly your are trying to achieve and as some more specific question. Just start learning this stuff.

—SA