#Winamp not working with audioswitcher code

For the said reason you’ll see me ignoring Knuth, Hoare and Sutter and doing the ‘root of all evil’, with pleasure.

#Winamp not working with audioswitcher code

I tried to test and prove that the two poles are not the only available approaches and that code that is both efficient AND follows modern design patterns and idioms, or in other words, that is relatively easy to read and handle for both the developer AND the hardware, is actually possible. The second, or better, a ‘parallel’ one, is the ugliness and the bad/outdated/’typical C-style’ design of most APIs ‘out there’ or, on the other hand, the bloatiness of many, more modernly designed, libraries that usually reek of the ‘oh who cares, today’s computers are fast enough’ mentality. The most important ‘flaw’, which inspired this project and the wish to overcome it, was the official statement of the ASIO SDK that it does not support multiple (active) ASIO drivers. The sad reality of most libraries, that there is always 'something wrong with them' (be it a matter of objective flaws or subjective preferences), can actually turn out to be a 'positive' driving force in learning projects like this one. Achieving that goal while trying not to just reinvent the wheel or repeat existing solutions but to do it better and/or differently makes the meat of this article and the source code behind it.

As this is not a purely theoretical article, there is an actual binary product of the following story, a working ASIO output plugin for WinAMP. Having a passion for demanding low-level C++ programming and high fidelity digital audio, fiddling with ASIO seemed like a good idea to test and improve my skills. Should one wonder, from the number of acronyms/technologies mentioned in this article, there actually is a core theme from which the others sprang and this is ASIO (the audio related one from Steinberg, not the network related Boost library).