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Asked: 2026-06-01T13:19:55+00:00

Is it possible to stream or play raw uncompressed PCM audio data in Windows

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Is it possible to stream or play raw uncompressed PCM audio data in Windows 8? I don’t want to play a file, but rather push my own audio samples (e.g. generate a sine wave). I’m running the Win8 consumer preview. I know that NAudio can do this in Win7 and earlier editions of Windows. I’ve tried referencing NAudio in a Visual Studio 11 project but NAudio has a dependency on System.Windows.Forms.dll, which does not exist (as far as I can tell) on the Win8 consumer preview. Is there another way to accomplish this in the Win8 preview? I’d prefer a solution using managed code or JavaScript.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You didn’t specify language of your chice, so I am going to assume C#. For C# I can think of couple possible options:

    1. SharpDX + XAudio2. This would work for C++ as well without the need for SharpDX
    2. In Silverlight you can use MediaStreamSource – Playing back Wave files in Silverlight. I don’t see it in WinRT, but similar alternative might exist.
    3. Write winrt library in C++ utilizing XAudio2. This way you wouldn’t need to use SharpDX and you can call it from C# or JavaScript app.
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