On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 8:48 PM, David DeHaven <david.deha...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > > > One more question regarding this. Is it OK to have many instances of > AudioClip or MediaPlayer if only a few of them actually play stuff or do > they block audio resources even when they are stopped? > > > > You can have as many as memory will allow :) They don’t tie up hardware > resources until actually playing. I actually recommend pre-loading > AudioClips to avoid startup latency, especially if they’re fetched remotely. > > > > Thanks for the info! > > Oh, and if you have a lot of AudioClips, it’s best to spawn a new thread > to load them up asynchronously, otherwise you could block the main > application thread which will render the UI unresponsive while it’s > loading. We’ve seen this happen on a couple occasions... > > Good to know, thanks. > I wanted to provide a library API to handle pre-loading, but didn’t have > the time or resources :( > I can imagine resources quite stretched for a huge project like this. Maybe JFX10 then ;-).
