Re: Looping a specific number of times

OK, I'll look into this more closely and will report back if scheduling a
stop() event is not enough.

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Ehsan
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com> wrote:

> rounding errors from the stop time?  No, that should be well below the
> precision.
>
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> 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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>> Ehsan
>> <http://ehsanakhgari.org/>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  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
>>>> <http://ehsanakhgari.org/>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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!
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Ehsan
>>>>>> <http://ehsanakhgari.org/>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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