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One year after the translation of libsoundsio to D by Dennis:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/xckyiizkjwdwvuvtmmvr@forum.dlang.org
I'm happy to introduce the game-mixer package in v1.0.0:
https://code.dlang.org/packages/game-mixer
A simple-to-use library for emitting sounds in your game.
Current Features:
- play MP3 / WAV / XM / MOD
- integrated resampling and threaded decoding
- looping, fade-in/fade-out
- progressive buffering of played audio for playing in any number of channels
- master effects
- based upon libsoundio-d: https://code.dlang.org/packages/libsoundio-d
- nothrow @nogc (but not -betterC)
Examples
import std.stdio;
import gamemixer;
void main()
{
IMixer mixer = mixerCreate();
IAudioSource music = mixer.createSourceFromFile("my-music.mp3");
mixer.play(music);
writeln("Press ENTER to stop playback...");
readln();
mixerDestroy(mixer);
}
There are three examples in the repo:
- music-playback (explain fades)
- binaural-beat (explain master effects)
- drum-machine (explain delayed play and playground)
Why not SDL2_mixer?
- It can be just a tiny bit more difficult to embed if you are making a desktop application.
- You might have a fetish for pure D libraries.
- The API is smaller, and hopefully less ambiguous.
However, as you will notice, it is less tested and support Windows and Linux only for now. Also less audio formats.
Future goals
If this library actually find some usage, it might be interesting to add:
- master limiter
- "epoch" presets that mimicks the sounds of older eras.
- loopback output, to have the output of game-mixer in an audio plug-in
Feedback welcome, see you on the DUBverse.
