Sample properties in playsound...

[Torbjörn Andersson]

Ryan C. Gordon wrote:

 > ...would it be better to have --rate, --channels, and --format options
 > on the playsound command line for sound formats that require you to
 > specify these properties? In the absence of those command line
 > arguments, playsound can set the "desired" field to NULL.

That should work for playsound. By "format" you mean 8/16-bit 
signed/unsigned big-/little-endian, right? Might be useful with an 
option to explicitly tell it what kind of input - RAW, MP3, etc. - to 
expect, regardless of what the filename says, but that would probably 
need changes to Sound_NewSampleFromFile()...

What should the decoders do if the "desired" field is NULL? Some of them 
can pick the appropriate format from their input, so they should be ok. 
Others can pick any sensible format they like but have used the desired 
format so far just to be nice, so they should also be ok.

What about decoders such as RAW? Should they fail, or should they use 
sensible defaults?

Torbjörn Andersson