Re: [ecasound] Keep Ecasound running while changes are made to the files its reading.

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 07:10:35PM +0300, Kai Vehmanen wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, Joel Nash wrote:
>
> > What I tried in ecasound was -audioloop so that the same file is read over (simple enough). I'll then make adjustments to this file and whilst maintaining
> > the same name on the same path for that file and then recompile csound to essentially make a new file. When ecsound "realises" this it has to stop? I then
> > have to exit and reopen ecasound and play the file again.
>
> ecasound does not support files that change content during processing.
>
> You need to either
>
> 1) restart ecasound when file is modifued
>
> 2) use the interactive mode (ecasound-iam, see man page) and use
> "cs-disconnect" and "cs-connect" to force ecasound to reopen the files
> -> ecasound will resume from same position, but there is audible gap in
> playback when you do this

3) There would certainly be some synchronization
considerations, however, it might be feasible to
start a new ecasound process when the new audio
file is available, and do a cross fade.
But rather than invent that wheel, I wonder if
some other tools might be more suited.

cheers,

-- 
Joel Roth
  
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