NAudio.Core 3.1.0

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NAudio.Core

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The cross-platform core of NAudio. Contains everything that is independent of the underlying audio API, so it targets plain net9.0 and can be used on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

What's included

  • WaveStream, IWaveProvider, ISampleProvider and associated base classes
  • WaveFormat and format-conversion helpers
  • WAV, AIFF, and raw file readers and writers (WaveFileReader, WaveFileWriter, AiffFileReader, …)
  • Sample providers for mixing, panning, volume, fade in/out, offset/skip/take, mono↔stereo conversion
  • Resampling (WdlResamplingSampleProvider) and pitch shifting (SmbPitchShiftingSampleProvider)
  • Signal generators, envelope generators, a BiQuad filter, and an FFT
  • G.711 (µ-law / a-law) codecs

When to use it

Reference NAudio.Core directly when you want to read, write, or manipulate audio on non-Windows targets, or when you are assembling your own combination of platform packages (NAudio.Wasapi, NAudio.WinMM, NAudio.Asio, …) and don't want the full NAudio meta-package.

See the NAudio documentation site for tutorials and the full API reference, or the GitHub repository for full documentation.

License

MIT.

Product Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
.NET net9.0 is compatible.  net9.0-android was computed.  net9.0-browser was computed.  net9.0-ios was computed.  net9.0-maccatalyst was computed.  net9.0-macos was computed.  net9.0-tvos was computed.  net9.0-windows was computed.  net10.0 was computed.  net10.0-android was computed.  net10.0-browser was computed.  net10.0-ios was computed.  net10.0-maccatalyst was computed.  net10.0-macos was computed.  net10.0-tvos was computed.  net10.0-windows was computed. 
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NAudio is an open source .NET audio library — playback and recording, file readers and writers, MIDI, DSP and effects, with platform-specific backends auto-selected by target framework.

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WASAPI playback and capture (including loopback and process loopback) and Media Foundation codecs for the NAudio audio library. Windows-only at runtime.

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winmm.dll-based Windows audio APIs (WaveOut, WaveIn, MidiIn, MidiOut, ACM) for the NAudio audio library.

NAudio.Midi

Cross-platform MIDI file reading and writing, MIDI message types, and SMPTE timing for the NAudio audio library. On Windows, also provides WinRT (Windows.Devices.Midi) live MIDI input and output.

NAudio.Asio

ASIO driver support for the NAudio audio library — low-latency multichannel playback and capture via ASIO SDK.

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A correctness release, with Native AOT as the theme. NAudio's remaining
`[StructLayout]` interop types — `WAVEHDR`, `ACMSTREAMHEADER` and `WaveFormat`
itself — were passed to native code by value, which CoreCLR pins in place but
the AOT marshaller copies into a per-call temporary. Anything the driver or
codec wrote back was silently discarded, so `WaveIn`/`WaveOut`, ACM conversion
(and with it `Mp3FileReader` and `AudioFileReader`) and every WASAPI, Media
Foundation and DMO format negotiation were broken in an AOT-published app while
building and running cleanly. Those paths now marshal by hand into stable
unmanaged blocks, and `NAudio.WinMM` joins the AOT-compatible package set.

The two breaking changes below both fall out of that work. Also fixed are two
3.0.0 regressions — `Mp3FileReaderBase` seeking on files with a Xing/Info
header, and `WdlResamplingSampleProvider` losing samples when its source
under-feeds — and a pair of infinite loops in the WAV parser on corrupt files.

* **Breaking:** `WaveFormat` and its subclasses no longer carry `[StructLayout]`, so `Marshal.SizeOf` and `Marshal.PtrToStructure` on them now throw `ArgumentException` instead of silently returning wrong data under Native AOT (`Marshal.SizeOf<WaveFormatExtensible>()` returned 22 rather than 40, and a decoded format kept its constructor defaults). NAudio itself stopped marshalling these types in 3.1.0; use `ToWaveFormatExBytes`, `MarshalToPtr` or `MarshalFromPtr` to cross a native boundary (#1432)
* **Breaking:** `AudioClient.IsFormatSupported` and `WasapiPlayer.IsFormatSupported` now return the closest-match format as `out WaveFormat` rather than `out WaveFormatExtensible`. WASAPI documents this format as either a `WAVEFORMATEX` or a `WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE`, and the old signature could only represent the latter — a plain format was previously decoded as a `WaveFormatExtensible` whose base fields were valid but whose extensible fields were meaningless. Callers needing the extensible fields should pattern-match (#1425)
* Fixed `WaveIn`/`WaveOut` failing under Native AOT with `WaveHeaderUnprepared` ("The wave header was not prepared"). The `WAVEHDR` was a `[StructLayout]` class passed to winmm by value, which CoreCLR pins in place but NativeAOT copies into a per-call temporary, so the driver's `WHDR_PREPARED`/`WHDR_DONE`/`dwBytesRecorded` writes were discarded. It is now a struct in a stable unmanaged block (#1425)
* Fixed ACM conversion failing under Native AOT — `WaveFormatConversionStream`, `AcmStream` and so `Mp3FileReader` and `AudioFileReader`. `ACMSTREAMHEADER` was a `[StructLayout]` class passed to msacm32 by value, and the codec keeps private state in the header's reserved fields between `acmStreamPrepareHeader`, `acmStreamConvert` and `acmStreamUnprepareHeader`; the AOT marshaller's per-call copy round-trips only the declared fields, so that state was lost and conversion failed. It is now a struct in a stable unmanaged block, as `WAVEHDR` already is (#1425)
* Fixed `WaveFormat.MarshalToPtr` and `WaveFormat.MarshalFromPtr` corrupting any `WaveFormat` subclass under Native AOT — the AOT marshaller drops the inherited `WAVEFORMATEX` fields of a class hierarchy, so a `WaveFormatExtensible` was written with its SubFormat GUID over the sample rate. Every remaining site that sized or wrote a `WaveFormat` with `Marshal.SizeOf`/`StructureToPtr` was converted too: WASAPI (`AudioClient`), Media Foundation (`MFInitMediaTypeFromWaveFormatEx`, reachable from `MediaFoundationResampler`/`MediaFoundationEncoder`), DMO (`DmoMediaType.SetWaveFormat`, `MediaObject`) and ACM (`AcmStream`, `AcmDriver`) (#1425)
* `WaveFormat.MarshalToPtr` now always allocates at least the `18 + cbSize` bytes it advertises. A `WaveFormat` subclass that declares `extraSize` but doesn't write it in `Serialize` previously produced a block shorter than its own `cbSize`, which a native consumer would read past (#1425)
* Added `WaveFormat.ToWaveFormatExBytes()`, which renders a `WaveFormat` as a native WAVEFORMATEX byte array. `MarshalToPtr` is now a thin wrapper over it, for callers who need an unmanaged block rather than a buffer they already own (#1425)
* Added a `Serialize` override to `Mp3WaveFormat`, which previously advertised `cbSize` = 12 but wrote none of its 12 MPEGLAYER3WAVEFORMAT extra bytes (#1425)
* `WaveFormatExtraData` now sizes its buffer from `cbSize` instead of holding a fixed 100-byte array, so a fmt chunk declaring more than 100 bytes of extra data keeps it rather than having all of it discarded (#482). The fixed size existed only because `[MarshalAs(ByValArray, SizeConst = 100)]` needed a compile-time length. `ExtraData` is now exactly `ExtraSize` bytes long rather than always 100 (#1432)
* `NAudio.WinMM` is now marked `IsAotCompatible`, and the AOT smoke test covers the winmm WAVEHDR/WAVEFORMATEX paths (#1425)
* Fixed `Mp3FileReaderBase` seeking silently restarting playback from the beginning of the file on MP3s with a Xing/Info header — the lazy frame index was gated on `IsLengthExact`, which such a header sets without any frame having been scanned. Also fixed seeks landing on the wrong frame when the target fell exactly on a frame boundary, and Xing/Info header frames being indexed as audio (shifting every seek in those files ~26 ms early). A 3.0.0 regression (#1419)
* Fixed `WdlResamplingSampleProvider` losing samples, and eventually returning 0 permanently, when asked for more output than the source could supply — a 3.0.0 regression that broke the common pattern of reading generously from a `BufferedWaveProvider`-backed capture chain. `WdlResampler.ResampleOut` also no longer drifts in input-driven (feed) mode when handed fewer samples than `ResamplePrepare` requested (#1412)
* Fixed two infinite loops in the WAV parser triggered by corrupt files declaring a negative chunk size. An RF64 `ds64` chunk with a negative `dataChunkLength`, or a `LIST/adtl` sub-chunk with a negative size, made the chunk walk advance by zero bytes per iteration and spin at 100% CPU without throwing. Negative and oversized sizes are now rejected where they are read, and an undersized `ds64` chunk throws `FormatException` rather than `ArgumentOutOfRangeException` (#1428)
* Fixed the `NAudioConsoleTest` WASAPI exclusive-mode quick scan reporting no supported formats at all on devices that support plenty — it built its probe formats with an empty `WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE` channel mask, which drivers such as Realtek reject outright. It now probes with the canonical layout for the channel count, the same mask the library's own format adaptation uses (#1431)