[2005/2008] Audio

Hello,

i have asked how i would make a recording program, a music editor/audio editor etc.. throughout a few threads. In conclusion to those threads all i recieved was short explanations and a link to an Audio class which i may download.

How can i generate my own sounds through the user's speaks?
How do i manipulate audio files?
How do i record audio from a mic.?

Instead of being directed to an Audio class how is this done? What if i would like to make my own audio class? There must be an easier way to do this or at least another way then just using a pre-written audio class off the internet.

The whole DirectSound API was built to make things like this easier. Multimedia processing is not always an easy task. I know in college I had a whole course dedicated to multimedia processing. It focused on sound as well as images and video.

One of the problems you will run into with writing your own is that you will have to write something for each file format. So you might be able to write something that handles .wav files, but MP3 or WMV are totally different format that you would have to write classes to interpret.

Now I am not discouraging you from undertaking this venture, I just want you to be sure you understand how much work it may be.

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Originally Posted by Negative0

One of the problems you will run into with writing your own is that you will have to write something for each file format. So you might be able to write something that handles .wav files, but MP3 or WMV are totally different format that you would have to write classes to interpret.

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Well to start off it will just handle simple files like .wav then overtime i will add.

EDIT: The posts i got a while back didn't explain about DirectSound APIs they gave me links to an actual project etc...
How does the DirectSound API work/how do i use it?

I can defenitely recommend the AudioLab library.

Edit: Oops sorry missed what you said about not being directed to an already existing audio library.

lol i think you were the one who suggested that to me before. The reason i don't want a read existing one is because then i won't get that great an understanding as i would if i created my own / read about it.

Though i will take a look at AudioLab again and look over it.