SFX&Music Clipping/Glitch on Macs

[Cheratomo]

We've been sending out game out to betatesters, and while doing so we noticed something odd.

We have a "text" sound effect that plays when the characters speak, just a kind of typing noise. When music is already playing, those two sounds working together results in weird clipping and sound glitches, like the music is popping in and out. Almost like ren'py can't run both at the same time.

This is only something that happens on Mac computers (including my own). People running windows have said they can't hear it.

All our audio files are .ogg and running at 44,100Hz. I'm not really sure what else to do.

Is there any way we can fix this? Thanks in advance!

EDIT: It seems this might've been fixed in the most recent update of Ren'Py -- if it was, that would be amazing, because this issue has been happening for two years! I'm sending an updated version out to betatesters and update with whether it has been fixed. c:

[namastaii]

Are you playing the sounds on separate channels? https://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/co ... nd_Channel

[YossarianIII]

We have a "text" sound effect that plays when the characters speak, just a kind of typing noise. When music is already playing, those two sounds working together results in weird clipping and sound glitches, like the music is popping in and out. Almost like ren'py can't run both at the same time.

Just wanted to add that I noticed the exact same problem in my NaNoRenO game. (I work on a Mac.) It's fairly subtle, but there's definitely a clipping sound when a character callback sound and music are playing at the same time on separate channels.

I assumed that I was just asking Ren'Py to do too many things at once, but that's interesting that Windows users don't hear this problem.

EDIT: It seems this might've been fixed in the most recent update of Ren'Py -- if it was, that would be amazing, because this issue has been happening for two years! I'm sending an updated version out to betatesters and update with whether it has been fixed. c:

I updated to the latest version of Ren'Py and confirm I still hear the clipping in my VN. I'd be curious to find out whether this is a bug, or whether I'm programming something wrong...

[Cheratomo]

I believe the sounds are on separate channels, as one is a music channel, the other is voice, and the last is a callback.

I can confirm it is still happening, and all three of the people who've played using macs can confirm this. Any ideas on how to fix it?


Edit: For reference, here is the callback code.

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init python:
    def callback(event, **kwargs):
        if event == "show":
            renpy.music.play("sfx/text.ogg", channel="text", loop=True)
        elif event == "slow_done" or event == "end":
            renpy.music.stop(channel="text")

Right now I'm switching renpy.music to renpy.sound and seeing if it makes a difference.

[Kinmoku]

Hi, did you ever find a solution to this? I am having the same trouble and my sounds are on separate audio tracks too.

It doesn't always pop/ glitch, but when it does it doesn't sound too nice

[Cheratomo]

I haven't, unfortunately. Sorry :/

[Kinmoku]

I haven't, unfortunately. Sorry :/

Oh dear Ok, well thanks for letting me know!