I'm currently making a library to do programmatic animation (akin to manim but for D and a different style) and for audio arsd.simpleaudio seems like the only real option (all the others I could find are too low-level for my taste) but if I want to skip to a specific section of the video, then I'd need to be able to seek the audio to that location too, and it appears that arsd.simpleaudio doesn't have a seek function. Is there a way to do this via other means? I want something like:

import arsd.simpleaudio, arsd.vorbis;

void main() {
  AudioOutputThread aot = AudioOutputThread(true);
  aot.playOgg("myAudio.ogg");
  import std.datetime;
  aot.seek(5.seconds); // or maybe this could be directly in .playOgg
}

so how would you implement this hypothetical seek function? (or if you could tell me a different library that already has this functionality that'd be great too)

On Sunday, 20 November 2022 at 21:57:03 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:

I can imagine, errors in C are extremely annoying.

I guess in the meantime I'll just use a python script to cut the audio before execution

On Sunday, 20 November 2022 at 22:26:26 UTC, TheZipCreator wrote:

i found the problem

the library called seek(-thing) and my seek had a if(x <= 0) return; when it should have been if(x == 0) return.

so it wouldn't go backward in the file!

i'll add it to the interface and do some more fixes, then i can link you to the new file. should ACTUALLY be closer to 30 mins now but no promises i might still find new bugs yet but it is working in the one test file very well now.

On Sunday, 20 November 2022 at 20:23:28 UTC, TheZipCreator wrote:

Here's the patch for ogg, you can download those two files off git master too (i can't tag yet since i have a lot of pending stuff before regression testing but you can copy them into your current dir or replace the dub cache if you're using that directly and it will work)

https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd/commit/1f6ead0a178a8cfbb284d7719fe38863610165e2

It looks like:

auto controller = aot.playOgg("myAudio.ogg");
controller.seek(5.0); // a float that is seconds in the file

Looking at doing it for mp3 is why I didn't put it in the interface yet... my mp3 code ported to D doesn't have a seek function! But ogg did, it was just buggy.

On Sunday, 20 November 2022 at 23:03:49 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:

works great! thanks