OwnAudio is a platform-independent C# audio library that provides a high-level API for audio playback, recording, and processing. By default, it uses Miniaudio for audio I/O. If FFmpeg or PortAudio is installed, it automatically uses Portaudio and FFmpeg. This way, it can work with MiniAudio without any external dependencies. The implementation of MiniAudio also allowed the API to be used on mobile platforms. It is possible to manipulate audio data in real time (pitch change, tempo change, and various real-time effects). The API is able to detect musical chords from audio and create a timed list of chords. A feature has been built in to help game developers manage sound effects.

Features

• Cross-platform compatibility (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS)
• Audio playbook with support for various formats via FFmpeg, or MiniAudio (mp3, wav, flac) formats
• Audio recording capabilities through input devices
• Time stretching and pitch shifting using SoundTouch
• Mixing multiple audio sources
• Volume control and custom audio processing
• Seeking within audio files
• Real-time audio processing with custom sample processors
• Audio data visualize customizable waveform display

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// Process source audio to match reference characteristics
analyzer.ProcessEQMatching("source.wav", "reference.wav", "mastered.wav");

// Optimize for different playback systems
analyzer.ProcessWithPreset("source.wav", "hifi_output.wav", PlaybackSystem.HiFiSpeakers);

⚡ What you get:

• Intelligent 10-band EQ matching
• Multiband compression across 4 frequency bands
• Psychoacoustic weighting and spectral masking
• Distortion-protected automatic processing

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Basic Usage

Here's a quick example of how to use OwnAudio to play an audio file:

using Ownaudio;
using Ownaudio.Sources;
using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

try 
{
    // Initialize OwnAudio
    OwnAudio.Initialize();

    // Create a source manager
    var sourceManager = SourceManager.Instance;

    // Add an audio file
    await sourceManager.AddOutputSource("path/to/audio.mp3");

    // Play the audio
    sourceManager.Play();

    // Wait for the audio to finish
    Console.WriteLine("Press any key to stop playback...");
    Console.ReadKey();

    // Stop playback and clean up
    sourceManager.Stop();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    Console.WriteLine($"Audio error: {ex.Message}");
}
finally
{
    OwnAudio.Free();
}

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to the creators of the following repositories, whose code was instrumental in the development of OwnAudio:

• Bufdio - Audio playback library for .NET
• FFmpeg.AutoGen - FFmpeg auto generated unsafe bindings for C#/.NET
• soundtouch.net - .NET wrapper for the SoundTouch audio processing library
• Avalonia - Cross-platform .NET UI framework
• SoundFlow - A powerful and extensible cross-platform .NET audio engine.