Does AudioTransportSource block the audio thread on stop?

[simonhill-fr]

Just realised this has been answered several times:

AudioTransportSource::stop() causes a long pause

When trying to stop playing a sample in AudioTransportSource using stop(), the plugin pauses for a second and the audio artifact in the form of a click or something similar after the plugin continues working. I have seen many forum posts about this issue and none of the answers helped me. The problem disappears if you delete the lines in the AudioTransportSource::stop() method (juce_AudioTransportSource.cpp): while (--n >= 0 && ! stopped) Thread::sleep (2); Why is the thread blocki…

AudioTransportSource::stop()

Hello Jules, I’m trying to play several audio files thru AudioTransportSource. Some are in loop, some are playing, some are in stop etc… But when I stop one of them that was playing, there’s some kind of freeze happening, with all tracks being muted. I guess it could be related to the Thread::sleep (2); bellow ? [code]void AudioTransportSource::stop() { if (playing) { { const ScopedLock sl (callbackLock); playing = false; } int n = 500; while (--n >= 0 && ! stopped) …

AudioTransportSource thread confusion

Hi I might make a fool of my self now, but there is something I don’t understand with AudioTransportSource I get it to play, stop, etc, and all seems well. But when I call void AudioTransportSource::stop() it blocks the calling thread: int n = 500; while (--n >= 0 && ! stopped) Thread::sleep (2); What I want to do is to have it stop, both on user input (like a button click) or to stop at a given time (counting samples in the processing callback) Anyway it will block, if I call it from …