Active Sound Studio (formerly called Active MP3&WAV Player) is an ActiveX control developed by MultiMedia Soft that makes it easy adding sound playback capabilities to applications written with the most widely-used development environments that accept ActiveX controls such as Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio.NET and Borland Delphi.

This ActiveX control, originally developed for the games market, helps developers adding sound playback to games and other commercial applications using the most diffused sound formats like MP3, WAV and OGG Vorbis. The most diffused MOD formats are managed also and, if the Microsoft Windows Media Player components are installed on the target PC, this ActiveX control can also manage WMA files and the sound frames of ASF and WMV files.
The control can retrieve the main information about the loaded sound files and it's capable of retrieving TAG information for MP3 files (ID3V1 and ID3V2), OGG Vorbis files and Shoutcast ICY and Metadata for Internet streams.
A set of dedicated methods allows creating, loading and using playlists and applying special effects (DMOs and EAX) over the playing sound.
Inside the Professional edition, starting from version 2.1, you have the possibility to change Tempo, Playback rate and Pitch for each of the allocated players.

The control's MP3 playback is based on the Xaudio engine: Xaudio provides the most robust and fastest MP3 engine implementation on all platforms. Xaudio is currently in use by hundreds of thousands of people around the world.

The demo program source code and some Visual Basic sample are available inside the downloads page.

Active Sound Studio comes with 3 different editions, each tailored to the differing needs and budgets of software developers:

Professional edition - The full set of features.
Standard edition - A subset of the features available inside the Professional edition.
Light edition - A subset of the features available inside the Standard edition.

Active Sound Studio is the Shareware version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "CLICK HERE TO ORDER" button below for around  199USD.