#Vb.net play sound code#

Waveform painters: Stereo and Mono charting of sample data based on.FFT visualization: 3D and 2D (Line and Point) display of the actual sound spectrum.

#Vb.net play sound code#

Audio effects: Pitch, Echo, Compressor and more using the code on.

Most notable extras (besides multiple devices selection) are: Over time, the project has grown into a complete audio player for many file types including many extras I´ve added for personal usage. So, I started coding my own audio player to send these signals at low level on my own. The problem: Microsoft Windows in fact is not designed to send audio signals to many devices at the same time. Ok, so I connected my old boxes to the green audio out port and my monitor to my HDMI port of my laptop. So what can a young student do to change this without spending much money for a new one? Well, he has to find a way to play on the monitor in the mid as well as on the old boxes left and right at the same time.

I have a very old one which you can´t connect to a Monitor via HDMI and also really has no surround sound at all. The background of my project, simply was the lack of a modern sound system. NET without external dependencies (except C# libraries that we include after compilation). So I will show you how we can code up a fully managed audio player (winforms application) in VB. The only comfortable way to avoid this, is to stay in the. Most of them therefore ended up with 3rd party libraries such as BASS ( ), FMOD ( ) or irrKlang ( ).Īll of them are free to use non-commercially, but have one big disatvantage: you must ship these dependencies beside your. NET as Microsoft only supports the rudimental playback of Wave Audio files (*.wav) in. All of them had to struggle with the lack of in-house support in. NET developers who would like to create some audio playback functionality in their Windows Applications. Table of contents 1 Introduction 2 Background 3 Using the code 3.1 Supported formats 3.2 The OnFileChanged event 3.3 The playback mechanism, visuals and effects 4 Points of Interest 5 History