Wave Bank

Wave Bank (.WBK) is an easy to use file format that can store many WAV files that can be set to stream from disk or to load into RAM. This eliminates the seek/load overhead produced every time a stream needs to play (a sound effect in a game for example).

Waves stored inside WBK are indexed by ID (001, 002, 003 etc.) and can be played using only one line of code. This format was originally developed as part of the tooling for use on my game.

Features

• Easy to use tool for creating WBK archives
• No bloat, the decoder DLL is just 9KB
• Supports both music and sound effects
• Support for .NET (C# and VB.NET)
• Supports 8 and 16-bit waves

Download Contents

• WBKWRITER.exe - GUI application for creating and modyfing WBK archives.
• WBKUNARCHIVE.exe - Command-line application that unarchives WBK files into a folder.
• WBKDEMO.exe - A small example that shows the usage of the Wave Bank library.
• WAVEBANK.dll - Dynamic-link runtime library that you have to include with applications that utilize Wave Bank.