Simultaneously playing the same sound

Asked Oct 25 '16 at 09:59

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In my game, I need to play a sound effect and there will be occasions where multiple instances of the exact same sound effect will need to play simultaneously, say, 10 phones ringing nearly at the same time. I could make one instance of AVAudioPlayer every time the sound needs to play, but I am worried by the delay it might add before playing, and it just doesn't feel like the right solution...

Is there some API made especially for that that I could use ?

Thank you.

asked Oct 25 '16 at 09:59

Pop Flamingo

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I actually wrote a class for a question with the same requirement. Just a sec – Olivier Wilkinson Oct 25 '16 at 10:02
Hi Trevor did you check answer on another question which might be similar to this. http://stackoverflow.com/a/28313535/2618600 – Nitya Oct 25 '16 at 10:03
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36865233/get-avaudioplayer-to-play-multiple-sounds-at-a-time – Olivier Wilkinson Oct 25 '16 at 10:04
It's not in swift 3 though so you might need to change some syntax – Olivier Wilkinson Oct 25 '16 at 10:05
@OlivierWilkinson Thank you, I did thought about making multiple instances of AVAudioPlayer, but I was wondering if, since it's the same sounds that needs to play, there would be a better solution than to make multiple instances of AVAudioPlayer. – Pop Flamingo Oct 25 '16 at 10:05
Sadly that's not possible, it would stop the previous sound – Olivier Wilkinson Oct 25 '16 at 10:06
@Nitya I had found it by searching for my question, but that's no exactly what I want to do... I was wondering there wouldn't be some better, more efficient solution than to just make multiple instance of AVAudioPlayer. – Pop Flamingo Oct 25 '16 at 10:07
maybe better use AudioUnit framework for that. https://developer.apple.com/reference/audiounit – AleyRobotics Oct 25 '16 at 10:07
Yeah audio unit would work. Using AVAudioPlayer kind of limits your options. – Olivier Wilkinson Oct 25 '16 at 10:08
@Yuri Thank you ! Didn't knew about it ! Looks like it is still using some C code ? – Pop Flamingo Oct 25 '16 at 10:08
@OlivierWilkinson Thank you ! – Pop Flamingo Oct 25 '16 at 10:10
@Trevör Anne Denise i do not know about C code, but it works great for multiple sound tracks playing at the same time. – AleyRobotics Oct 25 '16 at 10:11
No problem at all :) – Olivier Wilkinson Oct 25 '16 at 10:11

Simultaneously playing the same sound

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