Play 2 sounds?

[aNewHobby]

So i got SFML working...

How do I load a new sound in the buffer?

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sf::SoundBuffer Buffer;
if (!Buffer.LoadFromFile("miss.ogg"))
return EXIT_FAILURE;

// Display sound informations
std::cout << "sound.wav :" << std::endl;
std::cout << " " << Buffer.GetDuration()      << " sec"           << std::endl;
std::cout << " " << Buffer.GetSampleRate()    << " samples / sec" << std::endl;
std::cout << " " << Buffer.GetChannelsCount() << " channels"      << std::endl;

// Create a sound instance and play it
sf::Sound Sound(Buffer);
Sound.Play();

system("Pause");

if (!Buffer.LoadFromFile("hit.ogg"))
return EXIT_FAILURE;

// Display sound informations
std::cout << "sound.wav :" << std::endl;
std::cout << " " << Buffer.GetDuration()      << " sec"           << std::endl;
std::cout << " " << Buffer.GetSampleRate()    << " samples / sec" << std::endl;
std::cout << " " << Buffer.GetChannelsCount() << " channels"      << std::endl;

// Create a sound instance and play it
sf::Sound Sound(Buffer);
Sound.Play();

// Wait until the user presses 'enter' key
std::cout << "Press enter to exit..." << std::endl;
std::cin.ignore(10000, '\n');

return EXIT_SUCCESS;
So how do i play other sounds.. do I make a new buffer each time? Or do I just load new sounds into the buffer and then play them with sound.play?

[Laurent]

You can reuse the same buffer, like you did, if you want to play sounds sequentially. You'll need two buffers only if you want to play multiple sounds together, or if you want to pre-load sounds.

[aNewHobby]

yeah i could get it working using a different buffer for each sound.. but the above code will not change the sound... how do I load a new sound into the same buffer ? I suppose I can load a new sound into each buffer... kind of pre-load all the sounds I need... but then i might run out of stuff.. how do you unload a memory form the buffer.. liek clear it.. to either load a new sound into it.. or?

[Laurent]

Calling LoadFromFile again on the same sf::SoundBuffer replaces its contents with the new audio file.

[aNewHobby]

you speaks as if the example I posted would work? It doesn't seam to ?

How do I destroy a "buffer" once it is created? Like i can only seam to make a global sound loaded for entire project. I wanted to have a new set of sounds loaded depending on what level I am on.. but I can not work out how to load a new sound into the same buffer.. it always plays the same file form what was loaded first time.

[Laurent]

Yes, the above code would work, but it is obviously not your actual code since it won't compile (you declare two variables named "Sound" in the same scope).

There's really nothing complicated with sounds and buffers. After calling LoadFromFile, the buffer contains the new audio file, that's it. I suspect that you're doing something really strange in your code, can you show it?

[aNewHobby]

ok, thanks for your help, I know I am noobish. I have only started learning programming... I appreciate your patience with such a low level user.