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WOOHOO! I got sounds playing directly from memory (instead of from disk) with the System.Media.SoundPlayer class. To do this, you have to initialize the sound player with a MemoryStream object. The MemoryStream works like any other stream, but does not read from or write to the disk. Now the tricky part: you have to load the sound in with the .wav format. I found some documentation for .wav files which is very useful (https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/422/projects/WaveFormat/). Using the BitConverter class, you can convert any data type to an array of bytes, and read them into the stream. You don't even need to convert the variables to little endian form because any x86 system is already little endian (meaning the bytes are reversed, ie 732 = 0x00 00 02 DC (big endian) is represented as 0xDC 02 00 00 in little endian form). Also, the document states that the strings are big endian, but that doesn't really matter because the strings use one byte characters, and endianness doesn't apply to arrays (unless it were intended to be read into a stack). Also, since the strings use one byte characters and C# uses two byte characters, you must put in each character indvidually using BitConverter.GetBytes('<character>')[0]. Once you have the header data in, you can put in the raw data. It's in PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) form, which means the data for each sample is put in sequential order (which is what you'd expect from raw audio). Apparently, for stereo, the information is stored in left, right, left, right instead of all left and all right after that. Another thing: if you are using 8 bit samples, it is unsigned, and if you are using 16 bit samples it's signed... I wonder why it's not signed both ways? Finally: before you play the sound, set the memory stream's "Position" property to 0, otherwise the Sound Player will attempt to start reading from the end, fail to read anything, and give you an error telling you that the header is corrupt.