Different block size in prepareToPlay and getNextAudioBlock

General JUCE discussion
1

Hey,
I’m building an audio app in iOS 9.3 using AudioProcessorGraph.
I set up the graph in in prepareToPlay(). However the block size given in prepareToplay is different to that given in getNextAudioBlock, screwing everything up. I tried using AudioProcessorPlayer to play the graph directly, but it also fails to deal with the block size change.
I have to manually check to see the block size has changed like so:

if(channelInfo.numSamples != processorGraph.getBlockSize()){
processorGraph.setPlayConfigDetails(0, 2, getSampleRate(), channelInfo.numSamples);
processorGraph.prepareToPlay(getSampleRate(), channelInfo.numSamples);
}

This makes it work…but it seems ugly. Shouldn’t AudioProcessorPlayer deal with buffer size changes automatically?

2

You need to be able to handle different sizes, the value sent to prepareToPlay() is only a strong hint. On iOS the OS will use different sizes sometimes. For example, if your app play background audio and the device screen is locked then it may default to a larger buffer size since latency (and screen interaction) is likely to be less critical.