Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!decwrl!shelby!polya!ali
From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: SoundKit problem
Message-ID: <10312@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 28 Jun 89 20:01:32 GMT
References: <3974@next.NeXT.UUCP> <19933@cup.portal.com>
Sender: Ali T. Ozer <ali@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: aozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer)
Organization: .
Lines: 19

In article <19933@cup.portal.com> William_Charles_Thibault@cup.portal.com 
writes:
>I want to repeatedly play a sound seamlessly, without the small pause
>that occurs with the examples posted (I tried the SND routines and
>the setDelegate:self technique).  The SNDPrepareToPlay routine seems
>not to have any effect.  Is there a workaround for this?  

No. 1.0 will provide seamless sound playing by allowing you to queue
up sounds at the sound library level. You will also be able to record
into different objects without losing any samples. The 0.9 sound library
does not allow queueing.

>Would accessing the Mach sound driver ports directly be faster?

Yes. Unfortunately, this is highly discouraged at this stage, as this low-level
interface is changing for 1.0.

Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support
aozer@NeXT.com