In my game, I've got a soundProvider = Provider<MySoundClass> so various Widgets can command changes to sound. It stores long-lived audio resources. I also have a gameStateProvider = ChangeNotifierProvider<GameState> holding the game's state.
I'd like soundProvider to watch gameStateProvider, so that e.g. when the game is won, soundProvider can change from playing normal music to playing victory music.
But doing so would trigger a recreation of soundProvider's underlying MySoundClass when gameStateProvider notified it, which would leak the long-lived audio resources left lying around in the discarded MySoundClass.
How should I structure this to prevent the leak but play victory music? Should I use ref.listen(gameStateProvider) callbacks within soundProvider, instead of ref.watch, to play victory music? Or should I store the long-held audio resources in a third provider which soundProvider watches? The former seems a little difficult to manage and the latter seems a little too boilerplate.
