Feature Request: Sound Syncing?

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Mar 21 2009, 4:47 pm
A new argument for sound() allowing it to start from a given position?

that'd be nice
Mar 21 2009, 5:02 pm
AndroidData suggested some similar features before, including this. Please search before you request.
Mar 21 2009, 6:09 pm
In response to Jeff8500
Ah damn. Sorry
Mar 21 2009, 10:43 pm
In response to Jeff8500
The reason my request wasn't implemented is because sounds cannot be truly synchronized to an exact point, due to network lag involved.

I still believe it would be nice to have this feature, if not just to be able to specify a start & stop time of a song.

What I mean by this is that one could have a full music song which starts, loops, and then stops. It should be possible to make the song play from 0:00 up to the point of the last loop, and then make the song continue playback at whichever point the loop begins. The song would then loop endlessly without including the start & end portions of the song.
Mar 22 2009, 6:57 am
In response to Android Data
Android Data wrote:
The reason my request wasn't implemented is because sounds cannot be truly synchronized to an exact point, due to network lag involved.

I still believe it would be nice to have this feature, if not just to be able to specify a start & stop time of a song.

I second this motion

If you kept a spawn() proc that silently updates the starttime, so when other people listen to the song, they'll be synced within .5 of a second of other people

mob/proc/sync_update()
     world.songsync+=5
     spawn(5)     world.sync_update()

mob/verb/play_synced_song()
     usr << sound('song.ogg',starttime=songsync)


that would be awesome if it was added. Perhaps a way to get the length of a song as well. Something like this

var/songlength=sounddur('song.ogg')
//Play the song up to the mid-point only and loop
usr << sound('song.ogg',1,endtime=round(songlength/2))