The audio component of a game, representing what the player will hear. Comprised of dialogue, music, and sound effects.
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Multiple audio sources on a single gameObject in unity
So,
I have an audio system set up wherein I have loaded all my audio clips centrally and play them on demand by passing the requesting audioSource into the sound manager.
However, there is a ...
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Why is music compressed with lossy codecs down to low bitrates in modern games?
I wonder why anyone would compress the soundtrack of a game with lossy codecs (mp3 mainly) down to 128 kbps bitrate. Thing is I see it on most of the games. Rarely a game has 320 kbps soundtrack, let ...
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SDL Callback is repeating non stop?
We have successfully called our callback function in SDL Audio with the following setup.
struct {
SDL_AudioSpec spec; /* SDL Audio Spec Structure */
Uint8 *sound; /* Pointer to wave data */
Uint32 ...
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Match duration using SDL Mixer
We have define our basic codes as below. The snippet of the codes play the music chuck when we press the keys accordingly. The issue now is that file1 is shorter and file2 is slightly longer. We need ...
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What makes game sound effects “good”?
I'm making a small game, and I've found some free sound effects that I'd like to use.
The issue is that I can't get the sound effects to sound like they "belong" in my game. I don't know what to look ...
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Play streaming sound in OpenTK?
What's the simplest way to make a sound stream from disk and play in OpenTK?
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Maximum sensible audio sample rate
I work as a multi-purpose engineer/developer at a very small startup game company. Recently, I've been asked to help out with audio development and editing, and I've been mostly able to hold my own.
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do games use multiple threads to play music?
Do games use multiple threads to play music and other operations besides things like server connections and sockets?
And is that why when the game freezes (for any reason) the music can sometimes ...
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Play audio in javascript with a good performance
I'm developing a browser game where the player can shoot. Everytime he shoots it play a sound.
Currently i'm using this code to play sounds in JavaScript:
var audio = ...
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Issues loading in AudioSource at runtime using WWW class
I am having an issue with loading in an OGG audio file to my project. Basically I want to set my game up so that players can drop audio files into a folder called Playlist in the game directory then ...
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How to correctly Dispose a SourceVoice once its finished
i am starting to play a sound with XAudio2 and SourceVoice and once its finished, it should be correctly disposed to not have any leaks.
i was expecting it to be something like this:
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How can I load 24-bit audio as SoundEffect?
When I try to load .wav file I get an error:
Audio file *.wav contains 24-bit audio. Only 8-bit and 16-bit audio
data is supported.
Here is my code:
SoundEffect menuSelectionChange = ...
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Playing part of a sfx audio file in HTML5 using WebAudio
I have compiled all of my sound effects into one sequenced .ogg file. I have the start and stop times for each sound effect. How do I play the individual effects? That is, how do I play part of an ...
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Continuous / speed affected sound effects. What is the industries de-facto solution?
There are various types of audio material we require in games.
For instance, footsteps - these are very straight forward.
We take some boinking sounds over metal, plastic, concrete and add to our ...
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How to achieve realistic engine sound? [duplicate]
I am aiming to achieve a believable engine sound for a car. The vehicles are simplified versions of their real-world counterparts, with simpler steering behaviors and acceleration, etc.
This seems ...
