Audio Class Rewrite Request

[Prexus]

As ccoa has said at least once a month, there are people working on this somewhere.

I assume it is SephirothSpawn and Selwyn, at least.

When doing so, I was wondering if you could include Stereo and Surround Sound manipulation. Being able to change the volume of a song/sound effect in each speaker independently is something I've wanted for a long time. I don't really care enough to rewrite the entire Audio class myself just to do it though.

 

[Selwyn]

Mine's on hold for now, but I'll be sure to include those features if you can wait.

 

[Prexus]

Yep of course. But now that you've mentioned it, you have incurred much poking and proding from me.

 

[SephirothSpawn]

I have started on mine (thanks to ccoa for her script which got me going).

I will be working on it tonight. I will post what is done tonight before bed. I have the audio playing and everything, but like ccoa, I can't get the volume control working right. I believe the setaudio function is only for video files, but knowing so very little about API, I cannot say for sure.

Here's the API refrence I have done so far, on the API, functions, etc.

  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # ** API Setup
  #
  #   ~ http://msdn2.microsoft.com/de-de/library/ms709492.aspx
  #  
  #   Library  : winmm
  #   Function : mciSendString
  #   Params   : lpszCommand, lpszReturnString, cchReturn, hwndCallback
  #   Returns  : 0 - Successful, 1 - Error
  #
  # ** lpszCommand
  #
  #   ~ http://msdn2.microsoft.com/de-de/library/ms712587.aspx
  #
  #   aliasname must match when using after open function
  #   
  #   open     : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/de-de/library/ms712776.aspx
  #    ~ "open directory/filename alias aliasname"
  #
  #   close    : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/de-de/library/ms707312.aspx
  #    ~ "close aliasname"
  #
  #   play     : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/de-de/library/ms712842.aspx
  #    ~ "play aliasname from position"
  #
  #   pause    : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/de-de/library/ms712828.aspx
  #    ~ "pause aliasname"
  #
  #   resume   : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/de-de/library/ms713233.aspx
  #    ~ "resume aliasname"
  #
  #   stop     : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/de-de/library/ms713280.aspx
  #    ~ "stop aliasname"
  #
  #   setaudio : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/de-de/library/ms713256.aspx
  #    ~ "setaudio aliasname volume to value"
  #    ~ "setaudio aliasname output treble value"
  #    ~ "setaudio aliasname output bass value"
  #
  #   status   : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/de-de/library/ms713277.aspx
  #    ~ "status aliasname mode", variable, 255, 0
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

[vgvgf]

Hey SephirothSpawn I am writing the Audio class with the mcisendstring command! I will finish it soon, so you can use your time doing something else.

 

[SephirothSpawn]

Hehe. I am doing it for a learning experience. This is the first thing I have done with API, so I need to do it. After this, I am planning on a movie player. How fun!

EDIT: Well poo. In the process of straightening up the code and figuring out the volume control, I screwed something up along the way and don't have time to fix it. I will post what I have done soon. Sorry.

 

[eharper256]

Any further news on the Audio class rewrite, Seph/Trick? (Which one are you at the moment :D ?)
I'd seriously like this; cause then I'd be able to distribute a version of my game with uber small WMAs that isn't the sonic equivalent of dogmeat. (They sound perfect under Media Player Classic, but when the software synth gets hold of them, a crackling, warping, malformed mess results...)