How do I dynamically change audio files to play?

[sidi762]

Hi all,

I'm trying to make a music player using nasal. As there is no docs for the sound playing fgcommand at all, I used the sound configuration xml for playing sounds. However, I found that it's impossible to change which file to play in runtime using nasal as it seems that only path are accepted in sound configuration xml instead of property, and I don't have write access to the sound configuration xml file. I even tried to find a way to make the aircraft use a xml file located in FGHOME but ended up in total failure.

By the way, the method to reset sound system in runtime described in wiki doesn't seems to work, at least in 2019.3.2.

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fgcommand("reinit", props.Node.new({ subsystem: "fx" }))

Am I doing anything wrong here?

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,
Sidi

[Necolatis]

the reinit code is not needed anymore, just reload model from debug menu. It does the same.

[Necolatis]

fgcommand("play-audio-sample", propertyNode );

for example:


var tmpl = { path : "C:/sound-dir", file : "blabla.wav" , volume : "0.6"};
fgcommand("play-audio-sample", props.Node.new(tmpl) );

[wkitty42]

sidi, did you see my response on the dev mailing list? i pointed to the ATCChatter addon in FGAddon/Addons that might be helpful... the only thing i've seen so far is that everything handled by that addon is played in string sort order... briefly looking at the way it loads everything into an array, it should be possible to randomly select the next file to play based on the array index...

[sidi762]

the reinit code is not needed anymore, just reload model from debug menu. It does the same.

That should help a lot. Thanks!

fgcommand("play-audio-sample", propertyNode );

for example:


var tmpl = { path : "C:/sound-dir", file : "blabla.wav" , volume : "0.6"};
fgcommand("play-audio-sample", props.Node.new(tmpl) );

Yes I've discovered this in the wiki already, but I didn't found any documents for it, as I was hopping to have more control over it such as to stop it whenever I want. Thanks anyway!

sidi, did you see my response on the dev mailing list? i pointed to the ATCChatter addon in FGAddon/Addons that might be helpful... the only thing i've seen so far is that everything handled by that addon is played in string sort order... briefly looking at the way it loads everything into an array, it should be possible to randomly select the next file to play based on the array index...

Will have a look at it. Thanks for the pointer!

[Hooray]

If you need more control/additional features, it would make sense to raise this on the devel list, it would be relatively easy to support additional parameters/modes by handing a props.Node hash to the fgcommand, introducing additional fgcommands, a cppbind based API or by using a property-listener based system. I believe a number of folks have asked for ways to do more sophisticated audio handling in fgdata space than we currently support