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POSound quality issues when using NAudio to play several wav files at once
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copied!<p>My objective is this: to allow users of my .NET program to choose their own .wav files for sound effects. These effects may be played simultaneously. NAudio seemed like my best bet.</p> <p>I decided to use WaveMixerStream32. One early challenge was that my users had .wav files of different formats, so to be able to mix them together with WaveMixerStream32, I needed to "normalize" them to a common format. I wasn't able to find a good example of this to follow so I suspect my problem is a result of my doing this part wrong.</p> <p>My problem is that when some sounds are played, there are very noticeable "clicking" sounds at their end. I can reproduce this myself. </p> <p>Also, my users have complained that sometimes, sounds aren't played at all, or are "scratchy" all the way through. I haven't been able to reproduce this in development but I have heard this for myself in our production environment. </p> <p>I've played the user's wav files myself using Windows Media and VLC, so I know the files aren't corrupt. It must be a problem with how I'm using them with NAudio.</p> <p>My NAudio version is v1.4.0.0. </p> <p>Here's the code I used. To set up the mixer:</p> <pre><code>_mixer = new WaveMixerStream32 { AutoStop = false, }; _waveOutDevice = new WaveOut(WaveCallbackInfo.NewWindow()) { DeviceNumber = -1, DesiredLatency = 300, NumberOfBuffers = 3, }; _waveOutDevice.Init(_mixer); _waveOutDevice.Play(); </code></pre> <p>Surprisingly, if I set "NumberOfBuffers" to 2 here I found that sound quality was awful, with audible "ticks" occurring several times a second.</p> <p>To initialize a sound file, I did this:</p> <pre><code>var sample = new AudioSample(fileName); sample.Position = sample.Length; // To prevent the sample from playing right away _mixer.AddInputStream(sample); </code></pre> <p>AudioSample is my class. Its constructor is responsible for the "normalization" of the wav file format. It looks like this:</p> <pre><code>private class AudioSample : WaveStream { private readonly WaveChannel32 _channelStream; public AudioSample(string fileName) { MemoryStream memStream; using (var fileStream = File.OpenRead(fileName)) { memStream = new MemoryStream(); memStream.SetLength(fileStream.Length); fileStream.Read(memStream.GetBuffer(), 0, (int)fileStream.Length); } WaveStream originalStream = new WaveFileReader(memStream); var pcmStream = WaveFormatConversionStream.CreatePcmStream(originalStream); var blockAlignReductionStream = new BlockAlignReductionStream(pcmStream); var waveFormatConversionStream = new WaveFormatConversionStream( new WaveFormat(44100, blockAlignReductionStream.WaveFormat.BitsPerSample, 2), blockAlignReductionStream); var waveOffsetStream = new WaveOffsetStream(waveFormatConversionStream); _channelStream = new WaveChannel32(waveOffsetStream); } </code></pre> <p>Basically, the AudioSample delegates to its _channelStream object. To play an AudioSample, my code sets its "Position" to 0. This code that does this is marshalled onto the UI thread.</p> <p>This <em>almost</em> works great. I can play multiple sounds simultaneously. Unfortunately the sound quality is bad as described above. Can anyone help me figure out why?</p>

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