WindowsAudioSession

Windows Audio Session (WASAPI) sample

Demonstrates how to do various audio related tasks using the Windows Audio Session API (WASAPI).

Specifically, this sample covers:

• Enumerating audio playback devices attached to the system and retrieve additional properties.
• Demonstrates how to opt-in to hardware audio offload on supported devices.
• Demonstrates how to implement the basic media transport controls in order to properly support background audio playback.
• Playback of audio using the Windows Audio Session APIs.
• Capture of PCM audio using the Windows Audio Session APIs.
• Low latency audio playback and capture.

For more information on adding audio to your Windows Store app, see Quickstart: adding audio to an app.

Related topics

Roadmaps

Adding multimedia

Designing UX for apps

Roadmap for apps using C# and Visual Basic

Roadmap for apps using C++

Roadmap for apps using JavaScript

Reference

Windows Audio Session API (WASAPI)

Core Audio APIs

Media Foundation

Operating system requirements

Client: Windows 10 Windows Phone 10

Build the sample

To build this sample, open the solution (.sln) file in any version of Visual Studio, and then press F7 or select Build > Build Solution from the main menu.

Run the sample

To run this sample after building it, press F5 (run with debugging enabled) or Ctrl-F5 (run without debugging enabled) from Visual Studio 2013 for Windows 8.1 (any SKU). (Or select the corresponding options from the Debug menu.)