Fwd: Re: [Openal] Playing a sound twice at the same time.

[Thilo Schulz]

Hi,

I remember ioquake3 having exactly the same issue, mentioned in this post to 
the OpenAL mailing list.
In the original implementation, as far as I recall, multiple sound sources 
playing the same file would always be synchronized which is not the case in 
ioquake3 at the moment.
I could look into making this happen, so, do we want to go back to the 
original behaviour?

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Betreff: Re: [Openal] Playing a sound twice at the same time.
Datum: Montag, 27. August 2007
Von: Chris Robinson <chris.kcat at gmail.com>
An: openal at opensource.creative.com

On Monday 27 August 2007 07:56:53 am Leben Ojanen wrote:
> Right now I want to be able to load a sound once, then play it more
> than once, at the same time.
>
> So far I have been unable to do this, probably due to my lack of
> understanding of how OpenAL works.
>
> At this time, I can load a sound, but trying to play it twice with my
> current implementation causes the first "playback" to just stop while
> the other starts.
>
> Could someone please point me in the right direction on how to fix this?

Sounds in OpenAL are split into two parts.. buffers (which hold the sound 
data) and sources (which are the sound "controls", so to speak). A source is 
what you use to play and stop a sound, and a buffer is where you store the 
sound.

To be able to play the same sound multiple times at the same time, you need to 
create a source for each individual playback, but attach them all to the same 
buffer. Multiple sources can use the same buffer, so playing multiple sources 
that use the same buffer will give the effect you want.
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