Flash vs Silverlight in the area of Audio

[maskedMan]

Hey all,

I'm not sure how many people here have worked with Silverlight, and of those who have I'm not sure how many are likely to have done a lot of work with audio. Having said that, I'm curious if anyone here can give their impression on what it's like working with audio on a code level in Silverlight vs Flash.

I have to say I'm extremely disenchanted with Flash's audio capabilities, particularly since I'm stuck working in FP9. It looks like there are some 'fixes' in FP10, but it didn't look like it was quite perfect yet. I'm really curious whether Silverlight does this better than Flash. If so, I may have to play with it in my spare time.

[wvxvw]

System.Media.SoundPlayer
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.media.soundplayer.aspx
But this is almost all I know...

[maskedMan]

So it looks like the only sound file type that particular class works with is .wav, and if you want to use an mp3 you have to do so with the Windows Media Player controls. Hmm.

[yell0wdart]

Might want to check here as well:

http://silverlight.net/forums/t/23834.aspx

I've not played with Silverlight as much as I'd like to (though it's looking like I'll using it pretty heavily in the coming year or so).

Out of curiosity, are you developing in SL 2 or 3?