Devlog 6 - Sonora Music

So I left this project alone for a while to focus on other things, but i’m back!

I ended up fixing a few bugs here and there, and removing 2 themes I thought didn’t look great. I also added a fallback for that, so if you were using Sonora with that theme, and updated, your app won’t break.

I fixed a few memory leaks, mostly because I fell victim to a bunch of them while writing code and testing things. From what I can tell, it was because AVAudioPlayer wasn’t properly releasing itself. This meant that more instances accumulated over time, eating up more RAM and CPU.

I also did some visual polishing, by cleaning up unnecessary icons I added, and also just making the UI more refined. I pinned the playbar and controls to the bottom of the screen so that you can always see the controls, and fixed the broken color swatches for the themes so you can see what you are applying.

I’m getting close to being ready to ship this project, all I really have left to do is to decide if migrating to AVAudioEngine is worth it as it is an extremely intensive task, and will require lots of tedious work and debugging. The other thing I’ll consider is writing a windows build in Symphonia or some other thing so that this can be cross platform.

The main reason I am migrating is so that I can have more refined control of the signal chain and DSP (The chain that your audio passes through and how it is modified, say for an EQ). AVAudioPlayer is designed to just play audio easily, where I want more control and be able to implement the ability to add EQ down the line to further enhance the experience.

Hopefully the migration goes well, and I should be able to ship in the next week or two.