soud cards and Csharp

nicole castel

Hello

I am a beginner in Csharp, I'd like to know how to handle multiple sound cards (both input and output), more clearly how can I select a sound card among those I have using Csharp,I need your help please

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Frogleg15y ago
Another link
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/GemingLeader/696/
nicole castel15y ago
Hello

i want to do the both,if you want i can send you the subject of my project to get a clear idea
Sam Hobbs15y ago
I am not sure what you need to do. Do you need to record sound or play sound?
nicole castel15y ago
I didn't find the right solution yet, but I'm using all the answers provided by members to find the solution and of course when I found it I'll share with you :)
nicole castel15y ago
I didn't find the right solution yet, but I'm using all the answers provided by members to find the solution and of course when I found it I'll share with you :)
Suthish Nair15y ago
If the query got resolved, then mark the post that helped you as Answer so will be helpful for others. Otherwise if you got the solution please share with us.
nicole castel15y ago
ok thak you i'll try this code now
Frogleg15y ago
To play a sound file

using System.Media;

SoundPlayer simpleSound = new SoundPlayer(your sound file);
simpleSound.Play();
nicole castel15y ago
I have allways the same problem with DirektX :( Do you think that it's a problem of package ?
Frogleg15y ago
What about audio video playback ?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb324497(v=vs.85).aspx
nicole castel15y ago
Thank you for the help,it's an important site :)
but i have a problem with DirektX,it gives allways an error
Frogleg15y ago
Capture sound using dx
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tamir/archive/2008/12/25/capturing-and-streaming-sound-by-using-directsound-with-c.aspx
nicole castel15y ago
Thank you for your help but i didn't find the article :(
Sam Hobbs15y ago
For multiprocessing operatings such as Windows and Unix/Linux, devices are shared resources. Using the facilities that most processors provide, the operating systems take control of devices and don't allow applications the access they need to be able to interface with devices. So you cannot access devices directly; whether you are using Windows or Linux, they won't let you. As I already said, processors such as the ones that Windows support enable the operating system to prevent applications from doing anything with devices directly.

In both Windows and Unix/Linux and in most modern operating systems, there must be a device driver (that is what they are called in both Windows and Unix/Linux) that acceses devices. I am sure you are not developing a device driver.

Back in the days of DOS and 16-bit Windows Game developers would access hardware directly since they needed the best performance possible. So for 32-bit Windows Microsoft had to do something. They purchased software that the renamed DirectX. So you need to look at DirectX and whatever else might exist to replace DirectX. I am not sure whether there is something available for managed code that replaces DirectX but I know that DirectX has a few limitations that Microsoft needs to do something to replace DirectX. I think that for sound you need to look for DirectSound. Look for articles in this web site that show how to use sound in C#. Note that at least one article shows how to use the computer's speaker to make a simple piano; you don't want to use the computer's speaker.
nicole castel15y ago
I have the same result as you "not supported",i'll try to find the error and i'll tell you if something new happen with me :)
nicole castel15y ago
thank you so much for trying to answer, I'm really happy because you made efforts to help me and be Sure that I need allways your help, I'll try this code and I'll give You the result :)

PS: i Konow That i have a bad English so please excuse me
Vulpes15y ago
Well, I couldn't find any C# code for calling this function so I've had to work from the C documentation on MSDN:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms713753(VS.85).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa909789.aspx

and (amongst other sources) this VB.Net article

http://jo0ls-dotnet-stuff.blogspot.com/2009/01/set-default-wave-out-audio-device-vbnet.html

which gave me a clue on how to deal with the first parameter as I couldn't find anything else about the HWAVEOUT handle type and how to represent it in .NET.

This led me to write the following code:

using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

class Program
{

   [DllImport("winmm.dll")]
   static extern uint waveOutMessage(IntPtr deviceID, uint uMsg, ref uint dwParam1, ref uint dwParam2);

   const uint DRVM_MAPPER_PREFERRED_GET = 0x2015;
   const uint DRVM_MAPPER_PREFERRED_SET = 0x2016;

   const uint MMSYSERR_NOERROR = 0;
   const uint MMSYSERR_ERROR = 1;
   const uint MMSYSERR_NOTSUPPORTED = 8;

   static IntPtr WAVE_MAPPER = new IntPtr(-1); // points to current preferred device

   static void Main()
   {
   uint originalDeviceId = 0;
   uint newDeviceId = 0;

   uint ret = waveOutMessage(WAVE_MAPPER, DRVM_MAPPER_PREFERRED_SET, ref originalDeviceId, ref newDeviceId);
   switch (ret)
   {
   case MMSYSERR_NOERROR:
   Console.WriteLine("There was no error");
   break;
   case MMSYSERR_ERROR:
   Console.WriteLine("An error occurred");
   break;
   case MMSYSERR_NOTSUPPORTED:
   Console.WriteLine("Not supported");
   break;
   }

   Console.ReadKey();
   }
}

I thought it would be harmless to just change the preferred device from Id 0 to Id 0 but, on my Windows 7 machine, I get 'Not supported' so it may be that this function just doesn't work on Vista and Windows 7.

If there's anyone else here who understands all this better than I do, hopefully they will chip in. Otherwise I'm afraid I just can't help on this occasion :(
nicole castel15y ago
Hi Vulpes :)

yes I must prepare a software as a final study project and the manager told me to use Csharp because it's a widely used in computer science so I have to learn how to use this language quickly :)

i'm using Windows 7
Vulpes15y ago
Well, for a beginner in C#, you're certainly jumping straight in at the deep end :)

I'm no expert on sound and, judging by this thread (http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Offtopic/thread/9ebd7ad6-a460-4a28-9de9-2af63fd4a13e/), I thought it would probably be impossible to do this programatically.

However, I did find another thread (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1555156/c-how-to-programatically-change-the-playback-device) which suggests that you can do it by calling the waveOutMessage() function in the Windows Multimedia library (winmm.dll) and passing it the DRVM_MAPPER_PREFERRED_SET message.

There seems to be some doubt about whether this works on Vista and (presumably therefore) Window 7. So, before I try to figure out how to call this function from C#, which version of Windows are you using?