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optional async loading for audio files so that they don't cause long HTML5 loading times #4882

Closed RowanFuture closed 3 months ago

RowanFuture commented 5 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem?

My game's loading time is really long on bad wifi, mainly because all audio has to be loaded before the game can start.

Describe the solution you'd like

An option for HTML5 to make all audio file loading happen async.

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

No response

toby-yoyo commented 3 months ago

There are already two features available that offer this.

Audio Groups Assets in audio groups are not preloaded but instead await a call to audio_group_load from the game during runtime. Requests for assets in the group and any necessary decoding is performed asynchronously.

Streaming Streamed sounds are those with the "Compressed - Streamed" attribute set in the sound editor. These assets are also not preloaded at game start, but are requested and decoded asynchronously when needed to satisfy a call to audio_play_sound or similar.

As these features already provide the functionality requested, I'm going to close this as not planned. If you feel that the current feature set has a blind spot, then please detail what that is in a new feature request.

RowanFuture commented 3 months ago

the files in audio groups are still downloaded at the start of the game, this is my issue, their file size is the problem I'll look into this problem again but I remember coming into tons of issues which is why I made this request

one of the issues was also audio_is_playing not working on streamed audio and because of that it was reloading the sound every frame it seems to be reloading the sound from file each time it's played

I'll look into it again and make a more specific request