Sound in Java

[philfrei]

Cool! I wish I could hear some of what you are up to. I'm not clear on what you are thinking of in terms of a boolean. I'm also not sure I want to invest a lot more time in this until I get it working with some sort of compressed sound as input.

[Christopher]

Cool! I wish I could hear some of what you are up to. I'm not clear on what you are thinking of in terms of a boolean. I'm also not sure I want to invest a lot more time in this until I get it working with some sort of compressed sound as input.

I just mean you can spam the play button on your app and it plays multiple times (not sure if you wanted this feature or not?). I have been using slick for my sound, but im sure there is something similar to,

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if(music.isPlaying()) playButton = notClickable; yalpButton = notClickable;

[philfrei]

It was deliberate. I purposely wrote the code so that it could handle overlapping playbacks: each is launched in its own thread. I see an earlier post where you wrote of problems calling code that does playback when a play was already in progress, and you use a boolean to prevent this. The boolean could also be used in that context to stop and reset the sound, restart from the beginning. But I find it generally annoying when sounds are cut off prematurely. I want them to at least tail off in a natural fashion, and this requires overlap--thus, separate threads.

The total number of overlapping plays possible will be limited by how much RAM you have available. But when I had an early "windchime" experiment up on JConsole, I found I could get like 100 simultaneous wav files playing at the same time in one app. The background "windchime" in Hexara has a random factor, but between the background pad and triggered sounds and the background chimes, it will often have something like 10 sounds playing at once.

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[Christopher]

Yes! This style of plug-in would be perfect for generating a wind chime sound on the fly.

[counterp]

(don't forget that your sound thread should have a high priority, just my 2 cents)