Actually what you described is exactly how I handle the audio in this app. It's a video poker app but I preload all sounds and even on payout sounds of the coins dropping I load 4 instances of it so they can overlap while the game is in that mode. What I found was after 3 seconds of no audio at all the audio system goes to sleep. While I would see in the log a message about xx millsecond delay on startup again -- generally less than 100mseconds I still had the problem with the sound I immediately tried playing to 'queue' instead of actually playing...
On Jun 29, 2:13 pm, Paul Kilgo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Baratong <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What I ended up doing was this: > > 1. Use Audacity to create a 1-second .wav of total silence and add the > > wave into my manifest as a raw resource referenced in the app as > > R.raw.silence. > > 2. On startup, create a MediaPlayer instance, load the R.raw.silence > > resource and play in a loop constantly. > > I'm new to the SDK and I did have some troubles with sounds, but I found > what worked for me was to load all the sounds (at least the ones that will > be used frequently) into their own MediaPlayer object using > MediaPlayer.create(). Set each of the MediaPlayer objects to have an > OnCompletionListener() to call MediaPlayer.seekTo(0) to reset the sound. You > could extend the idea to store a bunch of MediaPlayer's in a hashmap if your > situation called for it. > > Using this method I haven't really seen much latency at all in my sound > effects. Does this method still cause the audio system to fall asleep during > disuse? I didn't notice much at all. > > -- > --Paul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
