How to enumerate audio devices using NAudio in Windows XP

Question

I'm trying to use NAudio to record audio in Windows XP (through a .NET application), however, the MMDeviceEnumerator function seems to be unsupported in Windows XP. Is there an equivalent function in either NAudio, or something else that can be used to get the list of audio devices and pass the selected device to the NAudio object?

Answer 1

You cannot use MMDeviceEnumerator on Windows XP, as this is part of the core audio API that was introduced with Windows Vista. For Windows XP, you need to use the WaveIn class instead from which you can get the device count using WaveIn.DeviceCount and find out the device name using WaveIn.GetCapabilities