Active Sound Studio is an ActiveX control developed by MultiMedia Soft that makes it easy adding sound playback capabilities to applications written with the most widely-used development environments that accept ActiveX controls such as Visual Studio 6 and Visual Studio.NET.
This ActiveX control, originally developed for the games market, helps developers adding sound playback to games and other commercial applications using the most diffused sound formats like MP3, WAV and OGG Vorbis. The most diffused MOD formats are managed also and, if the Microsoft Windows Media Player components are installed on the target PC, this ActiveX control can also manage WMA files and the sound frames of ASF and WMV files.
The control can retrieve the main information about the loaded sound files and it's capable of retrieving TAG information for MP3 files (ID3V1 and ID3V2), OGG Vorbis files and Shoutcast ICY and Metadata for Internet streams.
A set of dedicated methods allows creating, loading and using playlists and applying special effects (DMOs and EAX) over the playing sound.
Inside the Professional edition, starting from version 2.1, you have the possibility to change Tempo, Playback rate and Pitch for each of the allocated players.
The control's MP3 playback is based on the Xaudio engine: Xaudio provides the most robust and fastest MP3 engine implementation on all platforms. Xaudio is currently in use by hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
Availabe for download is a demo program this ActiveX control
Here are some key features of "Active Sound Studio":
· MP3, WAV and OGG Vorbis formats playback
· Windows Media formats playback (requires the availability of Windows Media Player modules on the target PC)
· Possibility to change the player volume and the sound card volumes.
· Sound loop
· Sound card output choice
· MOD Music playback
· Load sound files from the Internet (not available for MOD music)
· Shoutcast streaming support
· Playlists support
· Multi-Player feature: 2 players for the Standard edition, up to 4 players for the Professional edition; further players extension available upon request.
· Load sound files from memory
· EAX effects
· DirectX Media Object effects (DMO)
· Equalizer
· Tempo, Playback rate and Pitch support
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