Windows legacy audio components

This article describes audio APIs and components in Microsoft Windows which are now obsolete or deprecated. == Multimedia Extensions (MME) == The MME API or the Windows Multimedia API (also known as WinMM) was the first universal and standardized Windows audio API. Wave sound events played in Windows (up to Windows XP) and MIDI I/O use MME. The devices listed in the Multimedia/Sounds and Audio control panel applet represent the MME API of the sound card driver.

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