Five seconds of delay between sound repeat (WAV format)

[pekka]

EDIT/SUMMARY: The delay happened with a WAV format file, but not with OGG. Use OGG. It is better.

Love 0.6.2 and the new beta both do this for me on Linux. I don't normally use the Audio module that much, since Löve is mainly a testbed of game ideas for me. I basically have a bunch of hacks lying around, but no complete games.

If I load a short WAV file as a static Source and try to play it, playing only works after a delay of approximately five seconds. For example, if I write a simple program to play the same sound every second, I only get to hear the sound after intervals of approximately five seconds. It seems the other play() calls are just ignored. This is not a property of the sound file, since I can play it with greater frequency in Audacity or with a Python SFML program I wrote to test it.

Anybody else suffering from this? Am I misusing the API? I am using 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04, and otherwise I have not issue with sound. I suppose it would be easiest for me to just ignore the problem, as I don't need reliable sound fx. For now

I have tried using ALSA instead of PulseAudio, as per these instructions, but it had no effect. I reinstalled PulseAudio afterwards, as it works well enough for me.

http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showthread. ... ost9202903

Here is the test program I am using. I won't give the sound file, but like I said, it works without delay elsewhere, and I tried several other sounds.

EDIT: The same thing happened in Windows on the same computer.

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sound = love.audio.newSource("Blooomp.wav", "static")

function love.keypressed(key)
	if key == 'q' then love.event.push('q') end
end

accum = 0
ticks = 0

function love.update(dt)
	accum = accum + dt
	if accum > 1.0 then
		accum = accum - 1.0
		ticks = ticks + 1
		love.audio.play(sound)
	end
end

function love.draw()
	love.graphics.print(tostring(ticks), 30, 30)
end

[nevon]

I've heard about this before. The easiest solution would be to just use an ogg file instead of a wav.

[pekka]

Right. I converted it to .ogg and it played every second. I didn't guess the pause was due to the file format...

It seems to also happen if I load the WAV as SoundData and then create a sound from it. So I suppose I'll have to remember not to use that format at all then. I'll edit the topic to mention the format next.

[bartbes]

Let's link you guys to the bug: http://bitbucket.org/rude/love/issue/25 ... -lovesound