Play external audio assets

I'm working on a project where a lot of audio assets are needed. I have embedded all of them into the Fusion project. There's more than 500 Mb of raw .wav files, and Fusion has a hard time handling it. Saving and compiling the project takes ages (more than 5 minutes).

There's also a lot of graphic assets. But I'm able to load and display them as external files, at runtime, thanks to the Active Picture object.

I would like to the same with audio assets, but this doesn't seem to be possible. The Sound object's action "Play sample file" isn't compatible with HTML5. And the HTML5 video object doesn't load wav, mp3 or ogg files.

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.

I have converted the audio files from stereo to mono before importing them into the Fusion project. But the filesize is still huge.

Could you please elaborate on how I would implement this in Fusion?

Anyway, after some more tests I can tell that the HTML5 Video object can actually handle audio playback. I've been able to play ogg, mp3 and wav. Super thanks Clickteam!

I didn't think of the Web View Object, it's compatible with the Win and Android runtimes only. Thanks for the tip, might be useful in the near future.

Unfortunately I'm facing a problem, on iOS the HTML5 Video Object opens the QuickTime player/app to play the audio files. I have tried to hide the HTML5 Video Object by its property or by an action, checked the property "Display as sprite", and set its Width and Height to 0. The QuickTime player/app still opens.

I'd like to know if it's possible to enable/disable the use of the QuickTime player/app on iOS devices when playing media files with the HTML5 Video Object? If that's possible, I think that a new property for the HTML5 Video Object would be nice.

That would be ace Ben.

To make it more clear, I am trying to play audio files located in the resources folder of the HTML5 app. With the Active Picture object I already load pictures from that folder, and it's working great.

I have made more tests by playing sounds normally with the Sound object. I found out that with my (now old) iPod Touch 4th gen, for any given frame if the total filesize of the audio is too big to load, the app sort of crashes and Safari closes. I think that this is due to the device having low memory capabilities or something.

So for me, there's really a need of being able to load/play *external* audio assets. So that I can load each audio file separately, instead of loading all of them and take the risk to make the browser crash in case of a device with low memory capabilities.

By the way, I think that at runtime I could decide which audio file types to load (m4a, mp3, ogg) by using the expression "Can play mime type" of the HTML5 Video object.

I've also filled a feature request via the bugbox:
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And while I was looking for a solution, I've bookmarked a few links related to iOS/Safari that might be useful:
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I was finally able to play external audio files by using a JavaScript Sound API called SoundManager 2: Please login to see this link.

Attached to this post is a basic implementation of it. Most of the work is done in the .html file where you must import the library, declare the sound objects and define the functions. Then from your Fusion app you call the javascript functions with the HTML5 object. This must be working on most devices and browsers. For a wider compatibility it's best to provide the sounds in both MP3 and OGG formats.
There are a few limitations though, you're welcome to read the documentation of SoundManager 2 for more information.

If you are talking about the sound files found in the Samples and MIDI folders, you can use them in your Fusion-made games and applications, even commercial ones.

1. Oui, d'après moi il faut déclarer chaque son individuellement. Je viens de relire succintement la documentation de SoundManager 2, et je ne pense pas qu'il existe une méthode plus simple. Cependant je ne suis pas un expert en JavaScript.

2. Non, je n'ai pas modifié ces fichiers.

Il est également possible de ne déclarer qu'un seul son, puis d'en modifier l'URL au moment de la lecture, en passant un identifiant comme argument de la fonction soundManager.play(). Exemple modifié ci-joint.