Audio

[danilonishimura]

Hi,

"Bgm is created from a mp3 file." stands the documentation.

Will there be a native support for modulated sound files or we will have to use third party libraries for modular song processing and sending the byte array into the sound core?

[NayusDante]

I would love to see this. On the XNA side of things, there's SharpMod, but I haven't really looked at the code to see how easy it would be to port.

If Sony were to integrate modular music playback in the library, I think they could attract a lot of "hip" indie developers. With games like VVVVVV and BIT.TRIP.RUNNER, there's a sort of resurgence in the Commodore 64 sound that goes well with the indie scene.

It also makes sense on mobile devices. You don't have *that* much storage, so why waste it with MP3s if you can use a 200kb S3M file instead?

[Einschnaehke]

We'll have to insist that this feature will come in the next updates sometime, like stated in the GDC talk. So raise your THUMBS in the sky to make a fine grained audio API it happen. ;-)

[KraigWalker]

From reading other threads. There is a low leve Audio API in the works, so it looks like Team Audio will see a lot more cool stuff coming their way.