how to play one sound multiple times

[gfreak]

i have an sound (1.wav)
and i want to play it every time i press "s"

easy:

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s = love.audio.newSource( '1.wav', 'static' )

function love.keypressed(k)
   if k == "s"
      love.audio.stop(s)
      love.audio.play(s)
end

but i dont want the stop and i ask my self is there is a better way then:

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function love.keypressed(k)
   if k == "s"
			local s= love.audio.newSource("1.wav", "static")
			love.audio.play(s)
end

i dont want to load the same data over and over again (feels stupid)

so will working with love.sound.newSoundData fix my problem?

[tentus]

The first way is the right way to do it.

[gfreak]

The first way is the right way to do it.

if i want it yes

but i want to have multiple "1.wav"s running
i want if the engine caches it or it will be loaded multiple times and if love.sound.newSoundData is the right solution

[Robin]

This should probably work right:

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function newsource()
    return love.audio.newSource( '1.wav', 'static' )
end

sources = {}

function playsource()
      for i, s in ipairs(sources) do
         if s:isStopped() then
            love.audio.play(s)
            return
         end
       end
       table.insert(sources, newsource())
       love.audio.play(sources[#sources])
end

function love.keypressed(k)
   if k == "s" then
      playsource()
   end 
end

It only creates a new source if there is no stopped source available.

[Taehl]

Ensayia and I created TEsound to make things like this painless. It also makes things like playing random sounds, looping music, and volume control easier.

[kikito]

There is also slam.

[gfreak]

There is also slam.

thanks!

but:

will multiple plays lead to multiple love.audio.newSource => more ram or even worse: more I/O by reading the same file more than once ?

[nevon]

For sounds, you should load them once as sounddata, and then use that sounddata to create a new source when you need to play it.

[gfreak]

For sounds, you should load them once as sounddata, and then use that sounddata to create a new source when you need to play it.

thanks that what was what i want to hear

i try to patch slam for this (only for static ones of course)

[vrld]

For sounds, you should load them once as sounddata, and then use that sounddata to create a new source when you need to play it.

i try to patch slam for this (only for static ones of course)

Slam already does this for you. In fact, this is kind of slam's point