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I have this laser shooting spaceship, and a sound is supposed to play when the laser is fired. However, when there is only one source it only plays every few seconds. Making a new source every time in order to play it works, but it takes up a lot of memory. If anyone can provide a solution, I would be glad to hear it.

thegenius wrote:I have this laser shooting spaceship, and a sound is supposed to play when the laser is fired. However, when there is only one source it only plays every few seconds. Making a new source every time in order to play it works, but it takes up a lot of memory. If anyone can provide a solution, I would be glad to hear it.

You can recycle old ones done playing right? http://love2d.org/wiki/TEsound

TechnoCat wrote:

thegenius wrote:I have this laser shooting spaceship, and a sound is supposed to play when the laser is fired. However, when there is only one source it only plays every few seconds. Making a new source every time in order to play it works, but it takes up a lot of memory. If anyone can provide a solution, I would be glad to hear it.

You can recycle old ones done playing right? http://love2d.org/wiki/TEsound

I'm not sure I'd like to use an entire script to fix what seems to be a small problem. Is there any other way?

It's inherently the way the audio system works in LOVE. LOVE does not like to quickly start and stop audio sources, there is always a huge delay. The best way to do it is to create a new source every sound effect and have a way of clearing them all out when they are done playing, which frees up resources.

Taehl and I created TEsound to do just that. The current sound system is not very user friendly and the devs really have no intention of fixing it or writing a proper tutorial anytime soon.

EDIT: Retracting that statement.

There are a few filetype-specific issues with sounds in LÖVE 0.7.2. One of them is that .wav files have a few seconds of silence at the end of them. You can call to manually restart the sound.

Ogg files are the best-supported currently AFAIK. Most of the sound issues can be avoided by using ogg files.

The real problem here is the lack of documentation on the love.audio portion of the wiki, someone should fix that.

slime wrote:There are a few filetype-specific issues with sounds in LÖVE 0.7.2. One of them is that .wav files have a few seconds of silence at the end of them. You can call

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source:stop()
source:play()

to manually restart the sound.

Ogg files are the best-supported currently AFAIK. Most of the sound issues can be avoided by using ogg files.

The real problem here is the lack of documentation on the love.audio portion of the wiki, someone should fix that.

Thanks, using .ogg files now, they work much better.