Investigate replacing Rodio with pure SDL audio

[17cupsofcoffee]

I kinda don't get along very well with Rodio's API (I basically tried my best to bypass it by just writing a custom Source). If I do a 0.3, I'd be very tempted to just rip the whole thing out and implement the whole thing with SDL's built in audio interface instead (plus maybe the signal crate for sample rate conversions, etc). That'd remove one of the main blockers to getting Tetra running on iOS and Android too, I think.

That said, I nearly burnt myself out on this project entirely doing the original version of the sound API, so this can wait...

[17cupsofcoffee]

Actually, if I was going to do this, a better approach might be to try it out-of-tree first - just spin up a basic SDL window and see if I can get audio working in it. That way I wouldn't be getting tangled up in the rest of Tetra while I'm working on it.

[dortamiguel]

Hi, I will be interested to help with this.

I want to learn rust and I like this project.

[17cupsofcoffee]

Any help you can give would be much appreciated, as I've not really got the time to work on the audio backend at the moment!

As mentioned in the previous comment, the approach I'd probably like to take would be to implement something along the lines of Tetra's sound API in a seperate repo, only using SDL2. Then we could look at the tradeoffs involved in switching without having to hack around in the existing code. If you'd like to have a go at implementing something like that, it could be helpful? Or alternatively, you could wait for me to handle that side of things and help with integrating it into Tetra for real.