Re: sound advice
Re: sound advice
- Subject: Re: sound advice
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 10:18:53 -0800
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:48:16 +1030, Nathan Day <email@hidden> said:
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I've been using NSSound, initWithContentsOfFile, play, and it works fine
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for me using the system sounds which are just aiff. Are your sounds some
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weird sample rate or something.
No, it's 44.1 16-bit mono. I am now going through an elaborate
song-and-dance where I preload the sound when the application starts up (so
that I don't search for it on disk with soundNamed every time I play it)
and then spawn the playing of it off into a separate thread; I'm hoping
this will avoid the reported crash (which I've never seen personally), and
it has improved the playing each time, I think, except the first time which
is still broken up. Is there something special about the first time a sound
is played? Gee this is a lot of work just to go "ding". m.
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On Saturday, February 2, 2002, at 04:53 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
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> What's the recommended way to play a sound? My sound is an aiff file in
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> my
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> bundle. I've been playing it with soundNamed and play, but the sound is
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> usually choppy and I've had reports that the app sometimes crashes. I've
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> tried preloading the sound file into memory as NSData and playing from
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> there, but the sound is still usually choppy, even though it's a very
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> short
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> sound. Should I be playing the sound in another thread? Any advice
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> appreciated - m.
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