does an ANE for sound effects solve the android delay?

DanGrey

@2dguy, I do use standard Flash for music now, and the DigitalStrawberry ANE for sound fx. The problem is the short delay before the music play, and also the short delay before the sound stops.
Like when my game is "game over", the game-over-fx plays before the Flash music has stopped. One solution is to fade in the game play music, then I think it might blend in better with my game. I want the music to start right away when the player starts running.

DanGrey

@hoangdung, with 8000Hz the music lasted 1 min 10 sec, so it's better, but not long enough for my background music (gameplay music is 2,5 min), and also the quality is not good enough with 1000Hz or 8000Hz.

Thanks!

marpies

@DanGrey, the ANE uses Android's SoundPool class which supports low delay playback and is meant to be used for short sound effects only. For longer background music you will need to use the built-in Flash API. Unfortunately the playback delay is a problem even in native Android development when not using SoundPool.

2dguy

@marpies - I take it you are one of the developers of the ane? It's working well for me so far, a couple of questions please...

1) Is there a limit of how many sounds I can have loaded? I have alot of sounds loaded and usually only have 3-5 utilized at any time.

2) The ane could use a StopAll() method. No need to pass sound ids, or stream ids, just stop all sound playing when this is called. Any chance of adding this?

3) Is there any quirks, bugs, etc, on android devices I should know about before we start driving installs?

Thank you for very much for your ane. Is there a paypal address to make a donation to the product?

hoangdung

@DanDrey: you can split your audio file into three parts and play them through your game! 😃

marpies

@2dguy, Yes I'm currently maintaining the project, but it was originally developed by Digital Strawberry (flashisland here on the forum) so credits to them.

To answer your questions:

I don't think there is a specific limit for how many sounds you can load. There may be a limit for how many sounds you can play at once, but that's probably difficult to hit in normal usage. If you're not running into any memory issues then it's fine to have all the sounds loaded. Ultimately it's up to you to decide what's better in your use case, i.e. loading all sounds vs loading/unloading on demand.
We've just added that functionality. See the [v1.8 release](https://github.com/DigitalStrawberry/ANE-Sounds/releases/tag/v1.😎.
We haven't encountered any issues with the ANE on Android. In fact it seems to fix some of the crashes encountered when playing sounds with the built-in Flash API, so I'd definitely recommend using the ANE. You can read an extensive discussion about the crashes here.

Thank you for offering a donation but we don't have an address set up.

2dguy

@marpies - Seriously.... thank you for your endeavors. Very much appreciated. 🙂

hardcoremore

Hi @marpies,

Will this ANE work with latest AIR version in 2026 🙂

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