Re: Looping a specific number of times

rounding errors from the stop time?  No, that should be well below the
precision.


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhgari@gmail.com>wrote:

> It's not, but wouldn't that cause potential glitches resulting from
> rounding errors?
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> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com> wrote:
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>> I meant scheduling a stop(startTime+duration*loops).  That shouldn't be
>> driven from the main thread at all, should it?
>> On Mar 20, 2013 2:35 PM, "Ehsan Akhgari" <ehsan.akhgari@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> No, I'm not specifically talking about playback rate change.  The
>>> problem with relying on calling stop() is that stop() is driven off of the
>>> main thread, which makes it tricky to call it at the exact right time,
>>> which means that we will either cut the last iteration of the loop
>>> prematurely or we'll overplay from loopStart shortly before stop() manages
>>> to actually stop the playback.
>>>
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>>> Ehsan
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>>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I presume you mean in case playback rate is changed?  Otherwise you can
>>>> just call stop() for now +duration*loops.
>>>> On Mar 20, 2013 2:22 PM, "Ehsan Akhgari" <ehsan.akhgari@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> There are use cases where you want to loop over an
>>>>> AudioBufferSourceNode a specific number of times.  I think that in the
>>>>> current spec, the only way to do that accurately would be to copy the same
>>>>> content enough number of times after in the buffer.  I think this could be
>>>>> a useful feature for us to support, and I think we can do that by adding a
>>>>> loopRounds (bikeshedding on the name to be done later ;) attribute to
>>>>> AudioBufferSourceNode, which basically stops the loop after loopRounds
>>>>> rounds if stop() is not called beforehand.
>>>>>
>>>>> What do you all think about this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
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>>>>> Ehsan
>>>>> <http://ehsanakhgari.org/>
>>>>>
>>>>
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