Audio Conversion

[ChadW]

How would someone go about building an audio conversion program using VB.NET 2005? Or more specifically, say I wanted to build a program that would allow the user to select a *.WMA file and convert it to a *.WAV file. From a design standpoint, thats a pretty easy setup; couple labels, a textbox and a button. But from the code aspect I'm sure there are codecs to deal with as well as some other things. Just looking for a nudge in the right direction. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Best/free-vb_net-wav.html

I would imagine this to be quite difficult to code from scratch so you might be better of stealing some ideas from pre-existing code?

[ChadW]

It's always easier to download something that is already made. But, what fun is that? And, kind of defeats the purpose of making your own.

It's always easier to download something that is already made. But, what fun is that? And, kind of defeats the purpose of making your own.

I guess, however, I would imagine the conversion to be highly abstract. I.e dealing with code on a byte, perhaps even bit level. This is not my idea of fun.

Personally, I would just steal the hard-core conversion part from somewhere else, and just design the front end of the application.

[waynespangler]

You are going to have to know the file format for both wav and wma. Here is a link to the wav format.
http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?page=8&s=music
and wma
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000027.shtml
once you figure these out then you can move on to the playing of the sounds.

[ChadW]

Thanks for a usefull nudge Waynespangler