Playing sounds in sequence with SimpleAudioEngine

Question

I'm building an iOS app with cocos2d 2, and I'm using SimpleAudioEngine to play some effects.

Is there a way to sequence multiple sounds to be played after the previous sound is complete?

For example in my code:

[[SimpleAudioEngine sharedEngine] playEffect:@"yay.wav"];
[[SimpleAudioEngine sharedEngine] playEffect:@"youDidIt.wav"];

When this code is run, yay.wav and youDidIt.wav play at the exact same time, over each other.

I want yay.wav to play and once complete, youDidIt.wav to play.

If not with SimpleAudioEngine, is there a way with AudioToolbox, or something else?

Thank you!

== UPDATE ==

I think I'm going to go with this method using AVFoundation:

AVPlayerItem *sound1 = [[AVPlayerItem alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"yay" ofType:@"wav"]]];
AVPlayerItem *sound2 = [[AVPlayerItem alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"YouDidIt" ofType:@"wav"]]];    
AVQueuePlayer *player = [[AVQueuePlayer alloc] initWithItems: [NSArray arrayWithObjects:sound1, sound2,  nil]];
[player play];

Edited: found a method that is currently working. – Corey Feb 20 '13 at 19:10 — Corey, Feb 20 '13 at 19:10

sergio · Answer 1 · 2013-02-20T18:59:27.213

The easy way would be getting the track duration using -[CDSoundSource durationInSeconds] and then schedule the second effect playing after a proper delay:

[[SimpleAudioEngine sharedEngine] performSelector:@selector(playEffect:) withObject:@"youDidIt.wav" afterDelay:duration];

An easier way to get the audio duration would be patching SimpleAudioManager and add a method that queries its CDSoundEngine (a static global) for the audio duration:

- (float)soundDuration {
    return [_engine bufferDurationInSeconds:_soundId];
}

The second approach would be polling on the status of the audio engine and wait for it to stop playing.

    alGetSourcei(sourceId, AL_SOURCE_STATE, &state);
    if (state == AL_PLAYING) {
      ...

The sourceId is the ALuint returned by playEffect.

Can you really get a durationInSeconds from a ALuint sound? – Jonny May 31 '13 at 00:52 — Jonny, May 31 '13 at 00:52

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 21 '15 at 14:48

It's simple, tested with Cocos2D 2.1:

Creates a property durationInSeconds on SimpleAudioEngine.h :
```
@property (readonly) float durationInSeconds;
```
Synthesize them :
```
@synthesize durationInSeconds;
```

Modify playEffect like this :

-(ALuint) playEffect:(NSString*) filePath pitch:(Float32) pitch pan:(Float32) pan gain:(Float32) gain {
    int soundId = [bufferManager bufferForFile:filePath create:YES];
    if (soundId != kCDNoBuffer) {
        durationInSeconds = [soundEngine bufferDurationInSeconds:soundId];
        return [soundEngine playSound:soundId sourceGroupId:0 pitch:pitch pan:pan gain:gain loop:false];
    } else {
        return CD_MUTE;
    }
}

As you can see, I inserted durationInSeconds value directly from soundEngine bufferDurationInSeconds from the result of bufferManager.
Now, only ask for the value [SimpleAudioEngine sharedEngine].durationInSeconds and you've got the float duration in seconds of this sound.
Put a timer this seconds and after this, play the next iteration of your sound or put the flag OFF or something.

Playing sounds in sequence with SimpleAudioEngine

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