API Enhancement: play with volume

Suggestions
#1

I’m using the API to start/stop sounds on the online player.

Some oneshots are recorded at perhaps too loud a base volume for users, while other oneshots are too quiet for the same user.

It would be nice if the play api could take an optional argument of vol=1-200 and the oneshot sound (or mood?) would play at that level, while other requests to /play would remain or start at the current global volume or oneshot volume.

#2

Heya @coop

THANKS so much for the work you’ve been doing on this = looks fun!

Sorry it took a little while to discuss, I’ve been grabbing a dev or two. :slight_smile:

Soooo… there is no current “play with volume” thing, BUT you should be able to:

  1. first set the element volume for that OneShot
  2. then trigger playback

Is that something you had actually noticed already?

Does that work for you?

#3

And then, yes, implementing something that does that in a single step IS something our API could do…

Though: the ‘work around’ I described in my first response fits more conceptually with the way a use is normally using a Syrinscape

Hmmm… we’ll think about this.

#4

I had thought of the idea of just calling the set volume before calling play, but here’s the difficulty: the number of API calls and the total added latency.

It would have to go something like this:

  1. make a call to get the current one-shot volume
  2. await the response & store it.
  3. make a call to set the current one-shot volume
  4. make a call to play the one shot
  5. make a call to set the one-shot volume back to the original value.

We can continue the conversation on the developer message thread you started with me. Thanks for that!