How to play a pure PCM raw stream with C#?

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Published on 2010-06-06T00:44:40Z Indexed on 2010/06/06 0:52 UTC
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I was looking into System.Media.SoundPlayer and NAudio, and AFAIK they only play WAVE streams. The WAVE file is composed of the pure PCM data plus a format header. I don't have this header. How to play the PCM data without the header?

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