Assets audio or sound

Haxe
#1

Hi guys,
I have just found a possible incongruence in the documentation:

here
http://www.openfl.org/learn/docs/command-line-tools/project-files/xml-format/
and here

the list of possible asset types is

binary
font
image
music
sound
template
text

but here
http://haxecoder.com/post.php?id=20

they use “audio” too (even if they don’t mention project.xml).

I have always used “audio” for sound/music asset folders without any problem, is it correct?
Where is the truth?

#2

Audio is not a type, it probably automatically tries to detect the type if you use an unfamiliar one

#3

So I have to use sound and music, right? Do I need to split the sfx and music files into 2 folders?

#4

If you don’t set the type, the tools detect the type automatically based on the extension.

If you want to set a type, you could always do something such as <assets path="sound" type="sound" include="*.wav" /> then <assets path="sound" type="music" include="*.ogg" />

#5

What’s the difference between sound and music type? Buffering type?

#6

The idea was to distinguish between sounds you want to load into memory, and sounds to be streamed as it goes. Both behave the same in OpenFL 4 at the moment.

#7

Thank you Joshua.

Any plans to distinguish the behaviors?

#8

Yeah, in the future we’ll do more with streaming, but for now it doesn’t really matter (I don’t personally use type attributes at all)