Audio system: background music AND random Sfx

[uberlinuxguy]

currently, the background player only plays either a random sfx or music. Music should always be playing if enabled. Random sfx should play under music, not instead of.

[uberlinuxguy]

Taking a quick-ish look at the audio code,

it initializes 32 mixer channels. It's not clear it uses all of them.

The random "game sfx" shouldn't play as music.

Thought:

• separate samples and game sfx into channels for sound types
• music only plays music.

Channel list:

• item collection
• "Jim" comments
• game sfx
• weapon sounds (all 4 energy weapons.)
• missle sounds (dumb, guided, swarm, mines)
• ship sounds (shields, after burner, counting, emp)
• music

By the look of it 8 channels should suffice.
Would need a way to tag each sample with what channel to play on. Not sure if this is being done at the moment, needs more digging

The audio code is also a hot mess of unused stuff. There is an open ticket for cleaning this up somewhere.

[CrazySpence]

I don't think i've ever heard it play a SFX not since before 0.2 anyways, heres a couple janky short transition songs that are a few seconds long though

[uberlinuxguy]

the short stuff is what I think is the game sfx...