❔ Package to decode FLAC files?
Can anyone recommend a C# package to decode FLAC files? I want to be able to read the FLAC file from disk, and have the decompressed waveform data in memory to process directly.
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What's NAudio? I was hoping for something that had documentation.
NAudio itself has documentation: https://github.com/naudio/NAudio
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Thanks. All I see is a readme, no docs. Am I missing a link?
There's a bit of a Wiki, but it hasn't been updated in about 8 years.
I guess the approach you're trying to suggest is to use NAudio, then this NAudio.flac plugin, to read a FLAC and convert it to WAV in memory, then go after the waveform bits in the WAV format?
What I was hoping for was a C# wrapper (or port) of LIB FLAC: https://xiph.org/flac/api/group__flacpp.html
well, you dont need a port or wrapper
you can just
extern calls directly into libflac, if you're familiar with itI suppose, but I'd prefer a pre-made solution (to save work, obviously)
https://github.com/WilliamWsyHK/FlaCdotNet seems to be pretty much that?
Unmaintained, no docs ... but it might be close.
Maybe it's better to write this project in C++ directly.
perhaps. There doesnt seem to be a lot of interest in a flac wrapper for C#
I found two, but one was only for metadata and the other is what I linked you
they are both unmaintained and no docs
I'm af raid the "my code is self documenting!!1!" belief has made pickings slim. Indeed, it's hard to search because I trip over conversion tools (not libraries) and metadata-only solutions.
to be fair, code should be self-documenting... but that only applies to application code, not library code
library code should have /// comments for everything
I think thats a fallacy.
To each their own
FlacDotNet is in pretty bad shape -- no docs, unclear ReadMe, and looks like it targets an ancient (And now incompabile) version of LibFLAC.
I think I'll end up doing this in C++. Thanks, anyhow!
I ended up hacking up that NAudio.Flac plugin to get the raw bits. It wasn't WAV format, just the bits -- but that ended up being fine for me.
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