What's the best audio compression library for .NET?
.net, audio, c#, compression, vb.net
Solution
Have you thought about using WMA? If you use managed C++ or C++/CLI it's very easy to write a managed wrapper around the Windows Media Format SDK. This assembly can then be easily used by a higher level VB.Net or C# assembly. As long as you have WMP installed it even has the advantage of not requiring any additional dependencies.
Problem
I'm looking for a good audio compression library for .NET. Anything using MP3 is out (because of the licensing issue). Basically I just need to be able to compress regular WAV audio data into some format, and decompress back to WAV. Preferably the code would be all .NET (C# or VB.NET), but I don't think this is likely. It should either be lossless or relatively lossless (as good as 192 MP3s, preferably), with a compression ratio at least as good as 4:1. I'd prefer a buffer-based API, but a file-based API is OK too. Does anyone know of anything like this?