Recording from mic to mp3

[Firedragonweb]

Hello, the only program i know that streams "directly" to a desired audio format is the VLC Media Player. The good news is, that it is open source and quite well documented. But... it's unmanaged (of course) and i think you will have to dig through quite a bit of code in order to find something useful. Anyway, try this: http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc.html[^] Michael.

[DaveyM69]

Check this[^] article - it uses the dll from Lame. Creating your own encoder will be a LOT of hard work and probably not possible in C#?

Dave

[Johan Martensson]

Thanks for your answer but I was hoping that there might be a simple library I could use

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[Thomas Stockwell]

Audacity[^] is an excellent program that does the streaming. It is open-source (not .NET), but it might be an area to start. For encoding to mp3 is uses the lame library mentioned in a previous post.

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[Johan Martensson]

That article does pretty much what I have so far, it takes a wav-file and uses lame to create an mp3. I want to record directly to mp3.

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[DaveyM69]

AFAIK, I could be wrong (but I've been around the pro audio world for over 20 years) it's not possible. MP3 is an encoding format that compresses existing audio. It's like trying to write data to a zip file without first either saving the file or creating it in memory - the file has to exist somewhere first.

Dave

[Johan Martensson]

Yes, I realize it has to created in memory or something like that, so what I'm looking for is a free audio library that takes the data from the mic and sends it directly to lame. My problem is that it must be free for commercial use.

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[DaveyM69]

Just had a quick look at the source code from the article I referenced. It uses its own class WaveStream which takes a Stream in the constructor. I'm pretty sure that would work with a MemoryStream, and if not, I can't imagine it'd be too difficult to ads a new overload to the constructor. Then you could create the wav in memory (MemoryStream) and write directly to disk as mp3.

Dave

[Johan Martensson]

You're right, that could absolutely work, I will try it out Thanks for the help everybody

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[DaveyM69]

let me know if you get it working. If it's viable I could find a use for it myself!

Dave