Homebrew [Q] How to play more than one sound at the same time?

[LeifEricson]

I'm writing a new app and I'm trying to get sound effects to play over my music. However, whenever I call csndPlaySound more than once, even after playing two sounds on separate channels, the second sound always plays instead of the first sound.

Is there some sort of flag or something that I'm missing that will allow me to play multiple sounds at once?

 

[TheCruel]

You're probably doing something wrong. There are 24 channels usable by CSND. Just keep cycling through them. Something like this:

void Sound::play()
{
    if (!m_buffer || m_buffer->getSampleCount() == 0)
        return;

    // 24 possible CSND channels to cycle through (0-7) reserved for DSP
    static int channel;
    channel++;
    channel %= 24;

    u32 flags = SOUND_FORMAT_16BIT;
    if (m_loop)
        flags |= SOUND_REPEAT;
    u32 size = sizeof(Int16) * m_buffer->getSampleCount();
    GSPGPU_FlushDataCache(NULL, (u8*)m_buffer->getSamples(), size);
    csndPlaySound(channel+8, flags, m_buffer->getSampleRate(), 1.0, 0.0, (u32*)m_buffer->getSamples(), (u32*)m_buffer->getSamples(), size);
}