Android thread startup is slow, leaving noise at the beginning of the audio

[eduardodoria]

Expected behavior:

Get a clean audio after init() and play()

Actual behavior:

Getting noise after audio start

Steps to reproduce the problem:

soloud.init();
soloud.play(wav);

// Wait for mixing thread.
SoLoud::Thread::sleep(1000);

// Wait until sounds have finished
while (soloud.getActiveVoiceCount() > 0)
{
    // Still going, sleep for a bit
    SoLoud::Thread::sleep(100);
}

soloud.deinit();

Steps to workaround the problem:

Just sleep after init() (pthread_create) :

soloud.init();
SoLoud::Thread::sleep(100);
soloud.play(wav);

// Wait for mixing thread.
SoLoud::Thread::sleep(1000);

// Wait until sounds have finished
while (soloud.getActiveVoiceCount() > 0)
{
    // Still going, sleep for a bit
    SoLoud::Thread::sleep(100);
}

soloud.deinit();

SoLoud version, operating system, backend used, any other potentially useful information:

Release: 20200207 OS: Android Backend: OpenSL ES

[eduardodoria]

This not happen when using with Miniaudio backend (tested with OpenSL ES and AAudio) This can be closed. I'm considering to use Miniaudio in all platforms.

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