[Release] Syrinx Sound Manager

Daniel

That sounds fantastic, Aurelien — that's an area where AIR really needs some improvement, so your library could be a great help! Thanks a lot for your efforts!

aureliendc And by the way, Syrinx stands for the vocal organ used by birds to emit special sounds. I found that name quite relevant in the context of Starling-based development 😉

Haha, I love it!

stortof

Thanks for sharing 🙂
Looks very nice, I will try it!

2dguy

aureliendc If it's happening in the native flash API, the only thing we can do is informing Adobe and provide an easy to reproduce piece of code.

The delay when firing sound effects on Android is a known issue for a long time. No need to try to duplicate it, etc, etc. I was just wondering if your tool addressed this. Thank you.

aureliendc

Hello everyone,

I'm glad to announce that Syrinx v0.2 is out!

Changelog

Sound Instance: Improved performance for native MP3 sounds
Sound Instance: Added safe channel acquisition option
Sound Manager: Added max channel capacity capability
Sound Manager: Added getter for playing sound instances count
Sound Manager: Added optional automatic trimming durations detection at track registration
Demo: Fixed WAV file loading cancellation
Demo: Updated to show actually playing sound instances over registered sound instances

Useful links

Github repository: https://github.com/Adolio/Syrinx-Sound-Manager
Release v0.2 (swc): https://github.com/Adolio/Syrinx-Sound-Manager/releases/tag/v0.2

Status
This version greatly improves performance for native sounds which don't require custom sound data sampling (MP3 without trimming neither pitching). The new safe channel acquisition option (active by default) now prevents exception to be raised when the system failed to acquire a free channel. The max channel capacity capability allows limiting the number of playing sounds for a Sound Manager. It's now also easier to request trimming duration detection at track registration by passing a negative value.

The library still requires testing but I didn't notice any issue so far except that performance is a bit lower when using custom sampling so that's why I recommend to not use trimming and/or pitching capability for all sounds (in your game).

That's it! Thanks in advance for your feedback 😃

Best,
Aurélien

Pointless

Awesome work! 😀

Daniel

Thanks for your continuing work on this, Aurélien!

BTW, if you want to raise visibility of Syrinx, feel free to add it to the Extensions Page in the Starling Wiki! I know it's not technically a Starling extension, but it's still super interesting for Starling developers. 😃

aureliendc

Daniel Good idea Daniel!

Here is the new extension wiki page: https://wiki.starling-framework.org/extensions/syrinx-sound-manager

Daniel

Wow, that's coming together really nicely, Aurelien! Thanks also for creating that Wiki page! 😄👍️

aureliendc

Hi there!

I'm glad to announce that Syrinx v0.3 is now out!

This is just a minor stability release with few issues that I discovered lately + one small feature.

Changelog

Sound Instance: Added remaining time method
Sound Manager: Fixed destroy all sound instances method
Track Configuration: Fixed missing parameter type

Useful links

Github repository: https://github.com/Adolio/Syrinx-Sound-Manager
Release v0.3 (swc): https://github.com/Adolio/Syrinx-Sound-Manager/releases/tag/v0.3

Status

Nothing special to say, I think the lib is now mature enough to be used in serious projects. Feedback is always welcome 🙂

Best,
Aurélien

aureliendc

Hello everyone!

I'm glad to announce that Syrinx v0.4 is now out!

This is mostly a stability release which is fixing one issue related to sound looping for standard sounds (MP3 without trimming nor pitching).

Changelog

Sound Instance: Fixed looping capability for standard sounds
Sound Instance: Added currentLoop accessor
Demo: Extended loops limit
Demo: Improved stop & re-play capability

Useful links

Github repository: https://github.com/Adolio/Syrinx-Sound-Manager
Release v0.4 (swc): https://github.com/Adolio/Syrinx-Sound-Manager/releases/tag/v0.4

Status

The library is now getting very close to reach the long awaited v1.0 😃

Note: I'm also really looking forward to see what will come out from the media rework on which Harman is working on.
If you are interested in more file formats support like native WAV or OGG please don't forget to thumb up this issue: https://github.com/airsdk/Adobe-Runtime-Support/issues/400

See you & take care of yourself.

Best,
Aurélien

2jfw

aureliendc It's nice to see you back and still working on this project after over one year of abstinence 🙂
Much appreciated!
I was up to try out and use your sound engine for a private project but unfortunately had to pause this due to personal reasons...

2jfw

aureliendc So, what are your plans and upcoming features for the 1.0 release (in the case this is already "defined"..) ?

aureliendc

2jfw Thanks for your feedback! 😃 I hope you will be able to get back to it soon 🤞

So, what are your plans and upcoming features for the 1.0 release (in the case this is already "defined"..) ?

I have nothing planned in particular, I will mostly fix stability issues if I encounter any of them 😄 ...and the lib will turn to 1.0 as soon as my long running game project will be out (I hope during this year, but you know how free time game dev can go...). To be honest so far I didn't get that much feedback on the lib, I don't even know if people are actually using it 🤷‍♂️

Daniel

Great to see this library updated — thanks a lot for your hard work, Aurélien!
Thanks also for the link to the issue you created about support for new audio formats – audio is still something that's harder to do with AIR than it ought to be, so it's important for Harman to see we care about such features. 😃

aureliendc

Daniel Thanks Daniel !

Yes definitely! I really hope that Harman will soon put its sound expertise into AIR.. I will be very happy to drop some of my work 😛

aureliendc

👉 By the way I have updated the release archive for v0.4 because I noticed (too late) that I had built the SWC in debug mode. The new archive is now containing a release build. Sorry for that!

aureliendc

Hello hello!

I'm glad to announce a new release of Syrinx: v0.5!

This release introduces a small feature to help you configure the volume mastering of tracks. Basically a new field is now available in the Track Configuration class to define the "base volume" of a track. The base volume is meant to be used to adjust root volume of a sound for volume mastering purposes.
For example, when you want to integrate a sound which is not balanced enough with the rest of the sounds, now you can use the baseVolume to tweak the volume and play the sound correct volume depending the context (distance from player, etc.). This delegates the responsibility of volume mastering in the track and not the sound instance - which is great 🙂

The new final volume is then computed this way: final volume = master volume * base volume * volume

I hope this feature will ease your life when dealing with volume mastering.

Changelog

Track Configuration: Added base volume for volume mastering configuration
Sound Instance: Added base volume for volume mastering
Sound Manager: Added findRegisteredTrack method
Sound Instance: Fixed minor constant usage

Useful links

Github repository: https://github.com/Adolio/Syrinx-Sound-Manager
Release v0.5 (swc): https://github.com/Adolio/Syrinx-Sound-Manager/releases/tag/v0.5

Status

The library is still very close to v1.0 😃 I will release the official v1.0 within my game as soon as it is ready.

See you around,
Aurélien

2jfw

Very nice 👍

Regarding the release you uploaded, I feel that this will most of the time not work for the users since the batch file is assuming a folder C:\AIR\AIR_SDK_33_1 exists, which is probably mostly not the case. I would suggest you to create a Captive Runtime packed release

aureliendc

2jfw Thanks! I will do that for the next release 👍