PlayMusic PlayheadSample, PlayheadTime ?

[DiffrenzyKeymaster]

PlayMusic() is a great addition.

Would it be possible to make PlayheadSample, PlayheadTime return the total time/total samples played, and not the buffer position?

I’m asking because I’m making a project, where visuals are syncd to audio, and it would be great to be able to do this on longer pieces of music.

Maybe the channel could have an “accumulated” time/sample property ?

[AdamStrangeParticipant]

just get .Length and a few divides will give you the time played

[DiffrenzyKeymaster]

@adamstrange : probably just being slow here, but could you explain a bit more?

[PakzParticipant]

As far as I am aware the music(mp3,wav,ogg) plays at a certain amount of bits per second(1000 MIllisecs) If you know at which bitrate the music file is encoded you can calculate the time you are on.

[DiffrenzyKeymaster]

Thanks Pakz, but I need better accuracy.

Soundcards and devices drift (in time), so especially when playing long files, we need sampleposition to know how far along playback is.

[PakzParticipant]

Ok. I have not worked with streaming music yet. It is good though to have a number of good features to work with.

[AdamStrangeParticipant]

ok using a somthing:Sound
and getting the position with channel.PlayheadSample

soundthing.Duration = length in time which is

Property Duration:Double()
Return Double( _length ) / Double( _hertz )
End

So

time position would be along the lines of:
channel.PlayheadSample / (channel.Pitch * sound.Hertz)

I’ve not tried it, but that is the sort of thing you need to look at

[DiffrenzyKeymaster]

Thanks, but that does not solve the issue:  channel.PlayheadSample  returns bufferposition not song position.

Buffer is much shorter than the music.

[AdamStrangeParticipant]

AHA, got you. OK, this is definitely a more interesting issue that maybe Mark should look at.

Probably add a command for music position

[scurtyParticipant]

Do you mean the time from which said track/sound started playing?
Cuz I do that via Millisecs() from a Sound Extension. Start a virtual timer from x.Play()
Then stop the timer from x.Pause()/Stop()
Idk, maybe I don’t understand the question. Aha.

[DiffrenzyKeymaster]

@scurty: As you can see I’m looking for a more accurate way.

What “Sound Extension” are you using ( and what is it? )

[Mark SiblyKeymaster]

Should be possible, I will look into it.

[DiffrenzyKeymaster]

Thanks!

[DiffrenzyKeymaster]

This is now in the latest develop versions of Monkey2, thanks Mark!

Check out bananas/musictest.monkey2 that now has timed lyrics.

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