The native XACT APIs have added the support for programmatic wave playback. I.e. at runtime, you can load *.wav files into a Wavebank and play them from there, without needing to create a project and compile the binaries.  This is something we're looking at supporting in our next release, but I want to gauge how much interest there is in this feature?  Keep in mind that implementing this feature may very well mean we can't do some other feature.

So how important is this to you? Is using the XACT editor and precompiling your audio a big issue? Is it just a learning curve for the editor, and then you move on?

Let us know!

Fiend of Void:

Let's not stop at just adding support for .wav files at runtime. It would be very nice to have the ability to stream in audio from code as well.

Playing loose WAV files - not very.

Playing streaming audio - great to have!

I would much rather see some wizards added to the XACT tool.

Make that a LOT of wizards.

I'd really like to manipulate audio recording from a headset mike and play back.  I'd probably need something like DirectAudio/DirectSound or whatever it's called nowadays, but if this gets me closer to being able to do that with XNA, I'm all for it.