Audio DJ Studio for .NET is a .NET Windows Forms custom control developed by MultiMedia Soft that makes it easy to add sound playback and mixing capabilities to Winform and WPF applications written with Microsoft Visual Studio; thanks to the integration with DirectShow codecs and with the BASS library, both allowing decoding capabilities for the most common sound formats such as MP3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis and many others, Audio DJ Studio for .NET allows creating powerful multimedia applications with stunning playback capabilities.
Audio DJ Studio for .NET can load different sounds at the same time on different virtual decks, known as "players"; a player can be compared to a physical deck on a DJ console, the place where you put the vinyl/CD to be played. You can create a console with many virtual decks that can simultaneously play different songs on one or more sound cards. The availability of a certain number of players (decks) will enable the container application to mix several songs on different output channels, giving for example the ability to play advertising spots while songs are being played/mixed on different output channels: this is very useful for multi-channel radio stations automation software
Each player can have separate volume, tempo, playback rate, pitch and equalizer settings; each player also comes with a set of embedded and configurable visual feedback components such as VU-meter, spectrum analyzer, oscilloscope and waveform.
An embedded automatic fader can easily mix audio tracks loaded inside a playlist with an accurate and configurable fade-in/fade-out.
Many tutorials are available to help you beginning your developments with this powerful control.
Brief summary of available features:
Audio playback
| · | Playback of the following audio formats: |
| - AAC | - MOD Music | - PVF |
| - AC3 | - Monkey's Audio (APE) | - Speex |
| - AIFF | - MP3, MP2, MP1 | - SVX |
| - ALAC | - MP4 | - VOC |
| - AU | - Musepack | - W64 |
| - CAF (1) | - NIST | - WAV (2) |
| - CD tracks | - OGG Vorbis | - WavPack |
| - FLAC | - OPUS | - WMA and WMV (3) |
| - IRCAM | - PAF |
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| - M4A | - PCM RAW format |
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(1) Support for PCM 8/16/24/32 bits, PCM 32 bits floating point, G711 U-LAW, G711 A-LAW
(2) Support for uncompressed PCM and compressed formats whose ACM codec is installed inside the system
(3) Require the availability of Windows Media Player modules on the target PC
| · | PCM stream queuing, allowing to play sound streams coming from an external source |
| · | Playback of sound files from memory buffers |
| · | Custom encryption/decryption of sounds |
| · | Integration with Microsoft's Speech API, allowing to apply sound effects and output redirection to the sound stream generated by the SetOutputToAudioStream function of an instance of the System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer class (requires .NET framework v. 3.0) |
Sound effects
| · | Automatic Fader and volume automation with possibility to design volume fading curves |
| · | Auto-equalization of audio tracks through formatted XML files |
| · | BPM (Beats Per Minute) detection |
| · | Beats position detection |
| · | Tempo, Playback rate and Pitch support |
| · | Configurable normalization of sound level |
| · | Reverse playback of audio tracks |
| · | DirectX Media Objects (DMO) effects |
| · | EAX effects (if supported by the sound card) |
| · | Common filters (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass and stop-band) |
| · | Real-time DC Offset removal |
Sound generator
| · | Composite or monaural wave tones |
| · | Binaural and multi-channel wave tones |
MIDI
| · | Acquisition of MIDI events from a MIDI input device |
Audio streaming to and from the Internet
| · | Playback of audio files stored on an Internet server (not available for MOD music files) |
| · | Playback of Internet radios Shoutcast (versions 1 and 2) Icecast and WMA streams |
| · | Support for acting as a source for ShoutCAST, IceCast and Windows Media Services streaming servers |
| · | Sending to streaming servers, like ShoutCAST or Windows Media Services, the output of any WASAPI loopback device, allowing to stream any sound being played through an output device also if generated by external and third-party applications (Windows Vista and later versions) |
Video playback
| · | Playback of video clips whose DirectShow compatible codecs are installed inside the target system, with support for multiple output windows |
| · | Mixing/blending of video clips inside a video mixer output window, with support for separate preview windows |
| · | Customizable On-Screen-Display (OSD) on the video mixer window |
| · | Customizable On-Screen-Display (OSD) on the video player |
| · | Brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and gamma management of the loaded video clip |
| · | Extraction of the audio track available inside a video clip, allowing to perform silence detection, BPM detection and waveform analysis |
Protocols and sound cards management
| · | ASIO protocol with the possibility to directly playback the sound stream coming from ASIO input channels of the sound card |
| · | WASAPI protocol on Windows Vista and higher versions |
| · | Management of audio endpoints (CoreAudio) on Windows Vista and higher versions |
| · | Sound card output choice and speakers assignment |
Playlists and sound management
| · | Playlists support (M3U, PLS, WPL) |
| · | New proprietary playlist format (PDJ), allowing to predispose mixing automation and volume automation on each single song and to play encrypted sounds |
| · | Position triggers management |
| · | Sound waveform analysis |
| · | Delayed playback of songs |
CD management
| · | CDDB database queries (through FreeDb servers) |
Graphical features
| · | Real-time embedded visual feedbacks (VU-Meter, Oscilloscope, Spectrum, Waveform display) |
| · | Graphic bars for custom displaying of Vu-Meters, Spectrum and Progress bars |
| · | Display of fade-in and fade-out curves applied to the embedded automatic fader |
| · | Waveform scroller allowing manual and automatic movement of the waveform |
| · | Support for drawing the waveform representation inside a graphical device context (HDC) |
| · | Virtual piano keyboard for MIDI management |
| · | Frames grabbing from video clips |
| · | Enhanced graphical spectrum analyzer |
Tags-related features
| · | Reading of most common frames of the following tag formats (Unicode strings supported): |
| - APE | - APE |
| - ID3V1 | - LYRICS3 |
| - ID3V2.2 | - MP4 |
| - ID3V2.3 | - OGG Vorbis |
| - ID3V2.4 | |
| · | Reading of the following chunks in WAV files: |
| - CART | - DISP |
| - BEXT | - LIST INFO |
Misc features
| · | Mixing of songs at application level, through custom stream mixers, allowing to save mixing results through the integration with our Audio Sound Recorder for .NET control or to send mixing results to a streaming server |
| · | Exporting of loaded sound in WAV format (on both disk file or memory buffer) |
| · | Lyrics synchronization through LRC files |
| · | Downloading facility allowing the download of remote files into the local system and, in case of media files of supported format, with the option to load them automatically inside a player when download is completed |
