🚀 go-pugleaf

    I am working on a Juke Box program and am having a couple of problems.  
	
    First, I do not always receive the didPlay: message that should be sent by  
a sound when it stops playing.  This causes my program to stop, and not play  
the next song.  This behavior is erratic, i.e. sometimes I get the message,  
sometimes I don't.  The more I am doing elsewhere (the more in the background  
the program is) the less likely it is to get the message).

    Second, I am getting a lot of drop outs when I play the songs.  This may be  
unavoidable as the songs are stored in compressed format on a NFS mounted  
drive, but any suggestions would be appreciated.

    Here is a copy of the relevant code:
	
// This is in -init, sets up two sound objs, and sets me as their delegates.
	songPlaying = [Sound new];
	[songPlaying setDelegate:self];
	nextSong = [Sound new];
	[nextSong setDelegate:self];

// This is called when I press the play button...

	playing = YES;
// I get a song number, and then...  (the matrix contains the filename)
	[songPlaying readSoundfile:
		[[playlistMatrix cellAt:song:0] stringValue]];	// load it
	[songPlaying play];			// and play it
// I get a new song number, and prep the nextSong....
	[nextSong readSoundfile:[[playlistMatrix cellAt:song:0] stringValue]];


// This code gets called by -didPlay:
- playNext
{
	
// Swap the sounds
	swap = songPlaying;
	songPlaying = nextSong;
	nextSong = swap;

// This was added because when you get the didPlay message, the sound is not
// done cleaning up.  This seems to work, but is a definite hack, any
// other suggestions would be appreciated
	cthread_yield();

	[songPlaying play];		// play the next song

// Get the next song number, and again prepare nextSong....
	[nextSong readSoundfile:[[playlistMatrix cellAt:song:0] stringValue]];

    return self;
}

// This should be sent by the sound object when it is done playing
- didPlay:sender;
{
	if (playing == YES) [self playNext];
	
	return self;
}

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Orion Poplawski
Physics Dept. Paraprofessional
The Colorado College
orion@proxima.cc.colorado.edu (NeXT mail OK)
(719)389-6750