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DirectSound - Software library for interfacing with sound card drivers on Windows operating system. This software is the 789th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 350th most popular software in Japanese Wikipedia. Article “DirectSound” in Japanese Wikipedia has 14.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.59 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Japanese) language version.

Achievements in all the time:
Japanese Wikipedia:
Global Wikipedia:
The 789th most popular in software.

Since the creation of article “DirectSound”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 181 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

DirectSound is on the 350th place in local ranking of software in Japanese Wikipedia and on the 789th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 140 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 596 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Japanese): #10036 in July 2007
  • Global: #69399 in February 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Japanese): #66779 in February 2010
  • Global: #123260 in June 2008

There are 11 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
DirectSound
40.1413
2Chinese (zh)
DirectSound
17.9413
3Japanese (ja)
DirectSound
14.338
4Russian (ru)
DirectSound
9.4903
5Spanish (es)
DirectSound
9.2083
6Polish (pl)
DirectSound
8.1254
7Korean (ko)
다이렉트사운드
3.5839
8Czech (cs)
DirectSound
2.7032
9Dutch (nl)
DirectSound
2.3103
10Ukrainian (uk)
DirectSound
1.5232
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "DirectSound" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
DirectSound
613 773
2Japanese (ja)
DirectSound
179 512
3Russian (ru)
DirectSound
104 625
4Spanish (es)
DirectSound
51 389
5Chinese (zh)
DirectSound
42 053
6Polish (pl)
DirectSound
38 483
7French (fr)
DirectSound
19 605
8Korean (ko)
다이렉트사운드
16 802
9Dutch (nl)
DirectSound
10 433
10Ukrainian (uk)
DirectSound
4 069
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "DirectSound" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
DirectSound
1 200
2Japanese (ja)
DirectSound
172
3Chinese (zh)
DirectSound
105
4Russian (ru)
DirectSound
91
5Spanish (es)
DirectSound
31
6French (fr)
DirectSound
27
7Polish (pl)
DirectSound
14
8Korean (ko)
다이렉트사운드
13
9Czech (cs)
DirectSound
10
10Ukrainian (uk)
DirectSound
8
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "DirectSound" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
DirectSound
60
2Dutch (nl)
DirectSound
26
3Japanese (ja)
DirectSound
22
4Spanish (es)
DirectSound
17
5Russian (ru)
DirectSound
14
6French (fr)
DirectSound
13
7Polish (pl)
DirectSound
9
8Ukrainian (uk)
DirectSound
6
9Korean (ko)
다이렉트사운드
5
10Chinese (zh)
DirectSound
5
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "DirectSound" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Russian (ru)
DirectSound
1
2Czech (cs)
DirectSound
0
3English (en)
DirectSound
0
4Spanish (es)
DirectSound
0
5French (fr)
DirectSound
0
6Japanese (ja)
DirectSound
0
7Korean (ko)
다이렉트사운드
0
8Dutch (nl)
DirectSound
0
9Polish (pl)
DirectSound
0
10Ukrainian (uk)
DirectSound
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "DirectSound" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
DirectSound
153
2Japanese (ja)
DirectSound
140
3Chinese (zh)
DirectSound
100
4Korean (ko)
다이렉트사운드
73
5Russian (ru)
DirectSound
38
6Polish (pl)
DirectSound
37
7Spanish (es)
DirectSound
21
8French (fr)
DirectSound
12
9Ukrainian (uk)
DirectSound
10
10Czech (cs)
DirectSound
6
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

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esSpanish
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frFrench
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jaJapanese
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koKorean
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nlDutch
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plPolish
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ruRussian
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ukUkrainian
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zhChinese
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Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Japanese:
#66779
02.2010 		Global:
#123260
06.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Japanese:
#10036
07.2007 		Global:
#69399
02.2009

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on DirectSound from Wikipedia articles about DirectX, Environmental Audio Extensions, DirectMusic, OpenAL and Windows legacy audio components. Whereas reading the article about DirectSound people most often go to Wikipedia articles on XAudio2, Technical features new to Windows Vista, Miles Sound System, Windows Audio Session API and DirectMusic.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

en: DirectSound
ja: DirectSound
ru: DirectSound
es: DirectSound
zh: DirectSound
pl: DirectSound
fr: DirectSound
ko: 다이렉트사운드
nl: DirectSound
uk: DirectSound
cs: DirectSound

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