view base/AudioPlaySource.h @ 391:5858cc462d0a

* Fix #1628781 changes to layer visibility and mute should use a command
* Also use a command for changes to layer playback pan, gain, plugin settings
* Refactor PlayParameterRepository to remove dependency on audioio from base
* Fix failure to save play parameters for main model in session file

/* -*- c-basic-offset: 4 indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-  vi:set ts=8 sts=4 sw=4: */

/*
    Sonic Visualiser
    An audio file viewer and annotation editor.
    Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London.
    This file copyright 2006 Chris Cannam.
    
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
    published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
    License, or (at your option) any later version.  See the file
    COPYING included with this distribution for more information.
*/

#ifndef _AUDIO_PLAY_SOURCE_H_
#define _AUDIO_PLAY_SOURCE_H_

struct Auditionable {
    virtual ~Auditionable() { }
};

/**
 * Simple interface for audio playback.  This should be all that the
 * ViewManager needs to know about to synchronise with playback by
 * sample frame, but it doesn't provide enough to determine what is
 * actually being played or how.  See the audioio directory for a
 * concrete subclass.
 */

class AudioPlaySource
{
public:
    virtual ~AudioPlaySource() { }

    /**
     * Start playing from the given frame.  If playback is already
     * under way, reseek to the given frame and continue.
     */
    virtual void play(size_t startFrame) = 0;

    /**
     * Stop playback.
     */
    virtual void stop() = 0;

    /**
     * Return whether playback is currently supposed to be happening.
     */
    virtual bool isPlaying() const = 0;

    /**
     * Return the frame number that is currently expected to be coming
     * out of the speakers.  (i.e. compensating for playback latency.)
     */
    virtual size_t getCurrentPlayingFrame() = 0;

    /**
     * Return the current (or thereabouts) output levels in the range
     * 0.0 -> 1.0, for metering purposes.
     */
    virtual bool getOutputLevels(float &left, float &right) = 0;

    /**
     * Return the sample rate of the source material -- any material
     * that wants to play at a different rate will sound wrong.
     */
    virtual size_t getSourceSampleRate() const = 0;

    /**
     * Return the sample rate set by the target audio device (or the
     * source sample rate if the target hasn't set one).  If the
     * source and target sample rates differ, resampling will occur.
     */
    virtual size_t getTargetSampleRate() const = 0;

    /**
     * Get the block size of the target audio device.  This may be an
     * estimate or upper bound, if the target has a variable block
     * size; the source should behave itself even if this value turns
     * out to be inaccurate.
     */
    virtual size_t getTargetBlockSize() const = 0;

    /**
     * Get the number of channels of audio that will be provided
     * to the play target.  This may be more than the source channel
     * count: for example, a mono source will provide 2 channels
     * after pan.
     */
    virtual size_t getTargetChannelCount() const = 0;

    /**
     * Set a plugin or other subclass of Auditionable as an
     * auditioning effect.
     */
    virtual void setAuditioningEffect(Auditionable *) = 0;

};

#endif