The tale of clownaudio – Part 4

“In the next part, I’ll cover the first step in clownaudio’s transition from a component in a Cave Story mod to a standalone audio library.” It’s almost two years late, but let’s continue where we left off: At this point in time, clownaudio was still just the nameless audio subsystem of my Ogg Vorbis music

Optimisation. Fun.

I’ve been working on clownaudio again for the first time in ages. I know I’m still not finished chronicling the thing’s entire history in a series of blog posts which are very very interesting I can assure you, but I’ve been wanting to document some of its ongoing development for a while now, and I

The tale of clownaudio – Part 3

Okay, where was I… So I had a basic music player, which would decode Ogg Vorbis data using libvorbis and play it to the user with Cubeb. For the basic purpose of adding Ogg Vorbis support to a game that originally lacked it, this was good enough. Or… so I thought. With the release of

The tale of clownaudio – Part 2

Preamble Last time, I went over the ‘why’ of clownaudio’s development. In this part, I hope to go over the ‘how’. But before we begin, I’d like to briefly mention something that I didn’t bring up in the last part: ever since its early days, my Cave Story Ogg Vorbis mod has been under version

The tale of clownaudio – Part 1

Pre(r)amble I suppose I should start this off by explaining exactly what clownaudio is: clownaudio is my custom sound engine library. It performs real-time decoding, mixing, and playback of sounds in a variety of formats. Think ‘the thing that plays music and sound effects in a video game’. When I was a poor naive soul,