for audio i just use the really nice ManagedBass bindings
for audio i just use the really nice ManagedBass bindings
Rbut WinForms + VB is especially bad
Lim not commertial so i can use it for freeeee
Rbecause the VB compiler turns all WinForms forms into singletons
Nmanagedbass is actually really good but my goal is to not use restrictive licenses
Afixed the sentence for youbut WinForms +VB is especially bad
Nunfortunately im writing for commercial use 
Lall the good easy audio libraries are paid pretty much
Lat least for C#
Nopenal seems okay-ish
ANbut then you have to supply your own audio file readers
LOpenAL doesnt handle file loading
Lyeah
RHonestly I just stick to vorbis and WAV for my in-game audio
ROnly two file formats I need
NI'm looking into supporting just wav, mp3 and vorbis
Nsince those are the most commonly used
Li cant do that, i have to support a multitude of file formats that the user shoves in
RWhich means it's trivial to use a vorbis library and a simple custom-written WAV importer
Naac, aiff, wma 
Ndon't forget every audiophile's favorite
Nflac
Rm4a
Aflac has good reason to exist
Rat3
Rbecause sony
Nthere's no reason to support flac inside a game engine tbh
Nyou just get better sounding audio but at the cost that its probably more costly to decode that format
Aflac will sound no different to wav
RA lot of the big engines are just going to decode and re-encode into an optimized format anyway
RIn some cases they'll even compress it
Ait just uses less space
at the cost of the decoding requirements which frankly isn't much
at the cost of the decoding requirements which frankly isn't much
RI know one of the big features I want to add into Sparky is built-in audio system integration for the shader pipeline
Rsimply so I can procedurally glitch the screen out using glitch sounds.
Nprobably it will depending on your sound card and output
RThundershock Engine had support for it but it wasn't implemented correctly and I still don't understand enough about audio signal processing
Rmuch less doing it in real-time
RHmm
Anope. flac is just losslessly compressed pcm data.
the reason flacs are so desired is because they run at 96khz+ and still use less space than a wave file
the reason flacs are so desired is because they run at 96khz+ and still use less space than a wave file
L^
Lthe decompression cost really isnt that high
Nhuh you learn something new
Atrust me
Abeing an audiophile
Ais a scam
Lits literally the EXACT same thing but takes up less storage space
NI thought it would cost more because of "lossless" compared to wav and mp3's "lossy"
NI guess I was being scammed
RI genuinely can't tell the difference between audio sent over a wire to a headset and audio sent over bluetooth to a headset
LWAV is also lossless, but not compressed