Enumerating Sound Devices

Enumerating Sound Devices

• Ben Santiago

  To my best of knowlidge, .Net has no support for playing sound in it's base. So I dont think there is a way to iterate sound devices.
  
  

• ImagineNation

  use the Managed DirectX SDK - I believe this is the only way you can do this in .NET using managed libraries.

  There are also examples on how to do such things in the SDK

  
  
  

• Mantorok

  Hello All.

  Thanks, Scott, for your response. Yes, that's what I was looking for. I already knew that I could do it by referencing the DirectX library, but I didn't want to do that so I could try and keep the footprint as small as reasonably possible. This is exactly what I was after, even if it is a little out of the way. Thanks again.

  
  
  

• Carl Bateman

  the managed directX SDK has everything you need, including examples which are clear :)
  
  

• Sutha Thiru

  I was looking for how to enumerate sound devices too. But after searching high and low. I settled for directshow. You can use .net interop to use the directshow interfaces. I have done an app that enumerate sound devices with directshow and you can output the music to the selected device. I am still quite blur about directShow.
  

• forwheeler

  I need to brush up on my 2.0 framework skills.

  I am still doing a lot with 1.1 .

  Sorry about that :)

  
  
  

• RobZeilinga

  well yes it is true about the Media namespace however I believe you still cannot enum through the sound devices :-)
  
  

• Johnnie B.

  Hello All.

  Thanks, Matthijs, for your response. Actually, .NET has quite a bit of support for sound playback in the System.Media class. I've bundled several .wav files as resources and the thing will play them all day long. I just didn't know whether or not .NET would let me enumerate Sound Devices, without referencing MDX or going to unmanaged code. Thanks again for your response.

  
  
  

• spshah

  Hello All.

  Thanks, Ahmed, for your response. Yes, I know that it can be done via the DirectX library. I was wondering if there were a way to do it in .NET. I'm trying to keep the footprint as small as possible, which is hard enough with .NET. Thanks again.

  
  
  

• TheBlackhorse

  With WMI you can get at most hardware information. The API is quirky, though. You'll need to add a reference to System.Management.

  When I use this code:

  using System;
  using System.Management;
  
  namespace ConsoleApplication1
  {
  class Program
  {
  static void Main(string[] args)
  {
  ObjectQuery query = new ObjectQuery();
  query.QueryString = "SELECT * FROM Win32_SoundDevice";
  
  // connect to local machine
  ManagementScope scope = new ManagementScope(@"\\.\root\cimv2");
  
  ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher();
  searcher.Query = query;
  searcher.Scope = scope;
  
  ManagementObjectCollection devices;
  devices = searcher.Get();
  
  foreach(ManagementObject device in devices)
  {
  foreach(PropertyData property in device.Properties)
  {
  Console.WriteLine("{0}: {1}",
  property.Name,
  property.Value);
  }
  }
  }
  }
  }
  

  Then I get the following output on my m200 tablet:

  Availability:
  Caption: SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
  ConfigManagerErrorCode: 0
  ConfigManagerUserConfig: False
  CreationClassName: Win32_SoundDevice
  Description: SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
  DeviceID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24C5&SUBSYS_02C51179&REV_03\3&61AAA01&0&FD
  DMABufferSize:
  ErrorCleared:
  ErrorDescription:
  InstallDate:
  LastErrorCode:
  Manufacturer: Analog Devices, Inc.
  MPU401Address:
  Name: SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
  PNPDeviceID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24C5&SUBSYS_02C51179&REV_03\3&61AAA01&0&FD
  PowerManagementCapabilities:
  PowerManagementSupported: False
  ProductName: SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
  Status: OK
  StatusInfo: 3
  SystemCreationClassName: Win32_ComputerSystem
  SystemName: M200
  

  Hope that helps,

  
  
  
• Enumerating Sound Devices