NET.Core demo audio app

Overview

This demo code demonstrates how to enable .NET Core to play audio with the help of NodeServices and Node.js.

Due to its platform-independent nature, .NET Core doesn't have any native capabilities to play audio on the device that it is running on. However, Node.js has various packages that can achieve it.

NodeServices (a.k.a. JavaScriptServices) is a .NET Core library that enables seemless integration between Node.js and .NET Core code.

Prerequisites

1. Any IDE that is suitable for compiling .NET Core code (e.g. Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio Code, etc.)
2. Node.js

Usage

The demo project uses play-sound NPM package. However, there is a number of other NPM packages that can achieve the same goal.

In order to run the app, perform the following steps:

1. Run "npm install" command inside "NetCoreAudioDemo" folder. This will create "node_modules" folder
2. Build the solution
3. Navigate to the folder containing output binaries
4. Run the following command:

dotnet NetCoreAudioDemo.dll {space-separated fully qualified paths to audio files}

The command will attempt to play all audio files specified as command arguments.

If the compiled binaries need to be transferred to a different environment, ensure that "npm install" command is executed before the application is ran.

Please note that play-sound library cannot play sound on its own. It relies on one of the player apps, listed on its NPM page. The solution includes a compiled version of cmdmp3, the player specific to Windows.