This one has me perplexed. I’m playing a small sound file at game over and it appears to stutter at the beginning. It’s smooth when I play it in QuickTime.
I’m playing on a reserved channel, and I’ve even tried different sound files in the same bit of code, and they play fine. All exported at 41K, 16-bit, all small 1-second long sound effects.
Only one of them appears to be starting late.
Anyone else ever seen (well, heard) anything like this?
Using the latest public release.
Are you pre-loading them or loading them right before the call to play?
Pre-loading. .m4a for iOS, .ogg for Android, though I haven’t tested on Android yet. This happens in the Simulator and my iPhone 4S.
It’s also the only sound playing besides an ambient sound looping on a separate channel.
What’s strange is that I can use any other sound file in its place and no stutter.
I have seen this on a few areas myself, and for the life of me have no idea what it is caused from in the one game where i saw it happen 100% of the time i ended up just redoing all the sound files to mp3’s and the problem went away not to say that will resolve your issue as I have another game where it didn’t help at all.
Whatever the reason it has to do with the sound file itself, why or how they are different I have no idea as like you I am saving/exporting them all the same way so one would think they would be the same but there it is.
FYI one of the things I just tried as I was typing this was adding a half second delay to the end of the file and guess what, no start hiccup, so now I am really confused like the “size or length” of the file has something to do with this bug hmmmm
Are you pre-loading them or loading them right before the call to play?
Pre-loading. .m4a for iOS, .ogg for Android, though I haven’t tested on Android yet. This happens in the Simulator and my iPhone 4S.
It’s also the only sound playing besides an ambient sound looping on a separate channel.
What’s strange is that I can use any other sound file in its place and no stutter.
I have seen this on a few areas myself, and for the life of me have no idea what it is caused from in the one game where i saw it happen 100% of the time i ended up just redoing all the sound files to mp3’s and the problem went away not to say that will resolve your issue as I have another game where it didn’t help at all.
Whatever the reason it has to do with the sound file itself, why or how they are different I have no idea as like you I am saving/exporting them all the same way so one would think they would be the same but there it is.
FYI one of the things I just tried as I was typing this was adding a half second delay to the end of the file and guess what, no start hiccup, so now I am really confused like the “size or length” of the file has something to do with this bug hmmmm