Alvas.Audio

With the digitization of music over the past decade, our accessibility to our favorite tracks has been simplified like never before. This boost in music has come along with a number of hassles for DJ’s, clubs, and other music professionals. These professionals usually remain engaged in searching apt tools that can help them to play, record, edit and mix various audio files. Considering the requirements, developers seek effective solutions for creating proficient and professional audio editing applications. However, if you are yet to find a suitable audio-editing tool then try out the new Alvas.Audio 6.1. It’s an audio library for .Net written in C# that assists the VB.Net and C# developers in creating audio player, recorder, editor, and converter applications. It further gives you the flexibility to integrate different functions with the new application.

Using the Alvas.Audio 6.1 audio library you can integrate different functions while creating a audio player/editor application. You can create application that is capable of recording uncompressed audio data, data to file stream or memory stream, data to your recorder, and also enable pause and resume functions, etc. While setting the player functions, you can enable the application to play compressed/uncompressed audio, play data from file and memory stream, mixed audios, pause and resume playing, and even display current sound position. Further, you can even add the mixer controls to make source line selection, perform controls adjustments, and set playback features, etc. If you want your audio application to let the users edit the files, then you can insert functions relating to speed, volume, cut/join/insert/remove audio pieces, and form an audio format from byte array. Moreover, you can includes audio conversion to MP3, audio file concatenation, input sound signal, extract audio, encode/decode data, and other functions.

The Alvas.Audio 6.1 audio library is very handy for developers that assist them in creating audio player/editor applications, with various required functionalities. For being a constructive support to the developers, by facilitating them with varied features, Alvas.Audio is found to be worthy of 4 rating points.

Alvas.Audio for .Net is an audio library written in C#. The collection allows C# and VB.Net developers to create applications that play (including mixed audio data), record, edit and convert sound.
Key Features:
1. Record audio data:
- record uncompressed audio data (PCM);
- record compressed audio data: IMA ADPCM, Microsoft ADPCM, CCITT A-Law, CCITT u-Law, GSM 6.10, MPEG Layer-3 (mp3) and others;
- record data to the stream (file stream, memory stream);
- pause and resume recording;
- get the current sound position;
- record data to any recorder installed in the system.
2. Play audio data:
- play uncompressed audio data (PCM);
- play compressed audio data;
- play data from the stream (file stream, memory stream);
- play mixed audio data;
- pause and resume playing;
- get the current sound position;
- play data from any player installed in the system.
3. Set up mixer controls:
- select source line for recording;
- change source line volume for recording;
- additional controls adjustment. For example, "Mic Boost";
- change master volume for playback;
- playback muting.
4. Editing
- change the volume and speed of audio data;
- join several pieces of audio in a single;
- cut/insert/remove a piece in the audio stream;
- merge two mono audio streams into one stereo.
5. Convert audio wave stream to mp3 stream.
6. Convert Dialogic .vox (adpcm) stream to Mp3 stream.
7. Checks audio signal silence.
8. Few audio files concatenation.
9. Return the audio stream duration in milliseconds.
10. View the level of the input sound signal.
11. Play, record and convert RAW headerless format (SLINEAR etc).
12. Play and extract audio data from Avi streams.
13. Encode and decode Dialogic .vox (adpcm) format data.
Requirements: .Net Framework v2.0 or later (also .Net v3.5)
Recommended: .Net Framework with Visual Studio .Net 2005 or later (also VS.NET 2008)