Preview looping audio files but...perfect! (no delay)

[chumbo]

I plan to offer "Seamless Wave Looping" also on the Preview Tab. That way you can control the playback completely by keyboard.

I was in fact wondering why it couldn't exist in both but didn't dare to ask. But of course, that would be great!
While I'm at it, I'll be brave and ask...any chance of getting back the progress bar in status bar instead of the green 'Looping', along with the mouse-down controls of FF & Rewind? But that's just an icing on the cake, far from essential if the Preview tab will offer all the controls. It's just looks cool & can be handy sometimes

As for the question...not sure, it's hard to say now. I think one can form a better opinion once you start using it more so for now I'll go along with whatever you favor

[admin]

No, that seems to be the trade-off at the moment. Short of low-level API (which I don't have the time to get into now) it is either progress or seamless.

[chumbo]

...it is either progress or seamless.

Who needs progress, I vote seamless!
As I said, no big deal really, I'm super happy as is! A big thanks again!

[jupe]

@Don: Now if Seamless Wave Looping is enabled and a video/mp3 etc is being played in the IP, the progress bar disappears and "Loop Mode" is entered, shouldn't that only happen with wav files selected, or do you lose all progress bar features for all filetypes if that setting is enabled?

[admin]

Well, you are right, of course.

[jupe]

Another observation from testing is that if you have Seamless Wav looping enabled and then select a WAV that it shows no play controls at all, so the only way to start playback is by MDBU, is that correct? If you change the Seamless option while a file is selected you continue to have play controls until selection is cleared and re-selected. Also while playing with controls visible the arrow keys lose the "Loop Mode" text and jump start finish timestamps display, but that may be desired.

[admin]

Argh.

(In the meantime: You can start the play by Space key; or enable "Autoplay")

[chumbo]

I'm loving the feature and it works perfectly but unfortunately there seems to be only support for 16bit wave files.
Any chance of adding more support like for 24 bit (very common in sample/loop libraries) or mp3 and last but not least...rex/rex2 files! But that's maybe a stretch too far

[admin]

24 bit wave files work fine here. Can you send me one that does not work?

[chumbo]

Too be fair, while looking now for some 24 bit loops, I noticed that some do play but here's one that doesn't (lots more if needed of course):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ASxAE6 ... sp=sharing

[admin]

OK, confirmed. But it's not the number of bits. I see WAV files of all kinds of bitness that either work or don't work. I cannot see any pattern here, and worse: The API (PlaySound) that should play them (but doesn't) does not return any error but claims success. Not much I can do ATM.

[chumbo]

Damn...that's a shame, such a great feature. Oh well

[admin]

The docs say:

The sound specified by pszSound must fit into available physical memory and be playable by an installed waveform-audio device driver.

So maybe a change of the waveform-audio device driver can help...

[chumbo]

So maybe a change of the waveform-audio device driver can help...

I'm not sure what that means? Do you mean my sound card driver?
I'm using a professional sound card by one of the most reputable makers, RME Audio. I can't imagine that's the issue. Besides, you said you have the problem as well so chances are, more people have the problem than not so...
Would be interesting to see if anyone doesn't in fact?

[admin]

Agreed, sounds logical.

Looking at the docs again it might be possible to use the newer waveOutOpen (and others of that family) function instead. However, it's unclear yet whether it supports seamless looping.