HAMixer vs CSCore

HAMixer

HAM is a hardware application mixer for changing the volume of different windows apps on the fly. (by Wilsondotzip)

An advanced audio library, written in C#. Provides tons of features. From playing/recording audio to decoding/encoding audio streams/files to processing audio data in realtime (e.g. applying custom effects during playback, create visualizations,...). The possibilities are nearly unlimited. (by filoe)

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HAMixer		CSCore
	Project
1	Mentions	7
18	Stars	2,097
-	Growth	-
5.3	Activity	0.0
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	almost 3 years ago
C#	Language	C#
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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HAMixer

Posts with mentions or reviews of HAMixer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-31.

An opensource Arduino UNO powered hardware mixer for Windows applications!
2 projects | /r/arduino | 31 Jan 2023

This is an open Arduino powered project for a hardware application mixer, to change the volume of different windows apps on the fly! It also has a super easy to use GUI. The hardware side of things is very simple, you can download full project files and build your own/see project details here. https://github.com/Wilsondotzip/HardwareApplicationMixer

CSCore

Posts with mentions or reviews of CSCore. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-14.

Arduino volume control for windows?
4 projects | /r/ArduinoProjects | 14 Mar 2023

Another route (the one I'm taking) is to build the software yourself. For mine, I'm using Csharp and cscore so I can control the exact functionality I want. This gets really complicated if you are new, so I'd only take this route for a specific reason.
Audio Editor with React and ASP
1 project | /r/csharp | 20 Dec 2022
Analyze MP3 file without playing
2 projects | /r/godot | 25 Nov 2022

This is one library has been used for rythym games (which I have no experience with): https://github.com/filoe/cscore/tree/netstandard https://morioh.com/p/0c9a89be2fa8
Why is there a lack of cool repos?
22 projects | /r/dotnet | 26 Jul 2022
Show HN: Tone v0.0.4 – hackable command line audio tagger – any feedback?
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jun 2022
I've created a funky marble
2 projects | /r/Unity3D | 10 Apr 2022

In this case I'm not using an audio source. I'm listening to the desktop audio. This is possible with the LoopbackAudio script from this repository. It uses the CSCore library for that.
Is possible record any audio coming out of your computer in real time in C#?
1 project | /r/csharp | 10 Sep 2021

A simple Google search leads to this project; https://github.com/filoe/cscore

What are some alternatives?

When comparing HAMixer and CSCore you can also consider the following projects:

deej - Set app volumes with real sliders! deej is an Arduino & Go project to let you build your own hardware mixer for Windows and Linux

NAudio - Audio and MIDI library for .NET

Audio Switcher - .NET Library which facilitates interacting with Audio Devices on Windows

Xabe.FFmpeg - .NET Standard wrapper for FFmpeg. It allows to process media without know how FFmpeg works, and can be used to pass customized arguments to FFmpeg from dotnet core application.

Bufdio - A cross platform audio playback library for .NET with PortAudio and FFmpeg

TagLib# - Library for reading and writing metadata in media files

SeeShark - Simple C# camera library.

atldotnet - Fully managed, portable and easy-to-use C# library to read and edit audio data and metadata (tags) from various audio formats, playlists and CUE sheets

tone - tone is a cross platform audio tagger and metadata editor to dump and modify metadata for a wide variety of formats, including mp3, m4b, flac and more. It has no dependencies and can be downloaded as single binary for Windows, macOS, Linux and other common platforms.

ProjectPSX - Experimental C# Playstation Emulator

react-native-audio-toolkit - Cross-platform audio library for React Native