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One of the criticisms I often get about NAudio is that the documentation isn’t good enough. And although I have written numerous tutorials and articles about it (as well as two Pluralsight courses), I do accept that there is a lot of scope for improvement.

So I decided in November to see if I could write a short article or tutorial a day and use it to form the basis for a new set of documentation, especially now that CodePlex (which was the old home for NAudio documentation) is being shut down.

I’ve implemented the documentation as markdown files in the GitHub repo, to make it as simple as possible to allow community contributions and improvements. I’ve just about managed to keep up with the goal of a document a day.

Hopefully I’ll be able to add to and expand on this list in the future, to make NAudio much more accessible to new beginners. I’m also planning to insist on contributors of new features adding a tutorial of their own to ensure the the documentation remains comprehensive going forwards.

Here’s the full list of new articles I’ve written this month:

Playback

Working with Codecs

Working with audio files

Manipulating audio

Generating audio

Recording

Visualization

MIDI

Want to get up to speed with the the fundamentals principles of digital audio and how to got about writing audio applications with NAudio? Be sure to check out my Pluralsight courses, Digital Audio Fundamentals, and Audio Programming with NAudio.

Comments

Comment by samrat matte

Hi Mark,
Is naudio compatible with asp.net too? How can I get real time audio stream from microphone for a radio?

samrat matte
Comment by Mark Heath

yes, although it would be running server side not client side, so you'd typically only use it for generating files. NAudio does not contain any specific code for streaming audio from a web server, although there are some network streaming examples in the NAudio demo apps that could possibly be adapted to a web scenario

Mark Heath
Comment by samrat matte

Thanks Mark.

samrat matte
Comment by Peter Akakpo

hi mark
i want to get both the left and right peak values from an audio data, how do i go about that?. i have read "Calculating Peak Values" but the calculated value is for one channel.

Peter Akakpo
Comment by Mark Heath

Well left and right samples are interleaved, so you just loop the samples in pairs through maintaining separate peak values for each channel

Mark Heath
Comment by Kaoe Ferreira

Hi Mark, I'm using your NAudio librarian in my project, but I'm facing a big problem which is this: I use the ConcateningSampleProvider as an Array
Example: ConcateningSampleProvider [] sampleProv = new ConcateningSampleProvider [audiosTrack.Count];
Where: audiosTrack is a List of ISampleProvider
Example: List <list <isampleprovider="">> audiosTracks;
I'm adding the songs like this:
audiosTracks [indexTrackCurrent] .Add (new AudioFileReader (newPathFile) .ToMono ()); // ToStereo the problem continues.
In this, at the time of concatenating, within a For loop, I have this line:
concatenatingTracks [i] = new ConcatenatingSampleProvider (audiosTracks [i] .ToArray ());
The Code itself works. He concatenates everything right and also his mix is ​​correct. The problem is that it cuts the audio! The original Audio has 8 seconds in total, but by the time it concatenates and saves the folder by clicking the song, it plays for only 4 seconds thus ending.
It is an important and great project, I need to solve this problem and I do not know where else to go. I need your help
Thank you very much for your attention.
Obs: I'm using in a project on Unity 2018.2.18f

Kaoe Ferreira
Comment by Angelo Mascaro

I appreciate the effort to make demos and tutorials, but in my opinion the first document that a developer needs is a namespaces/classes/... reference in PDF or CHM or equivalent format. This helps the developer to quickly find how to use a class, how to call a function. Demos and tutorials are very good tools to learn the basic of the library, but their use is time consuming during the development phase.

Angelo Mascaro
Comment by Filip D. Williams

Dear Mr Heath,
I made a UserControl to play an MP3, with a slider, so that when I use two or more Usercontrols I can play the MP3 and use the slider to lower the volume apart for each MP3. Using the Volume control on WaveOut() itself worked, but then the volume of all UserControls went up and down. So I found somewhere I should use a SampleChannel and set the Volume there : BINGO. But now, when I listen using my headphones, and set the Headphone volume on the computer to 100%, the volume is much lower than not using the SampleChannel.... Weird
private void slider1_Scroll(object sender, ScrollEventArgs e)
{
if (_inputStream != null) _inputStream.Volume = sliderVolume.Value / 100f;
}
private Mp3FileReader _fileStream;
private SampleChannel _inputStream;
private WaveOut _player;
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
_fileStream = new Mp3FileReader(_path);
_inputStream = new SampleChannel(_fileStream) {Volume = sliderVolume.Value / 100f};
_player = new WaveOut();
_player.Init(_inputStream);
_player.Play();
//player.PlaybackStopped += _player_PlaybackStopped;
}
What I have tried:
I tried to use directly the WaveOut() volume... worked, but then the slider lowered all the other mp3 volumes too. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

Filip D. Williams
Comment by mfoitzik

Hi Mark. I could not find another way to gracefully contact you so am leaving a message on this post. My question is do you offer (or are willing to offer) paid consulting for NAUDIO implementations? Our specific requirement is to convert vox to either wav or mp3 and every attempt we try comes out distorted.

mfoitzik